Strong and Moving!

Overrated

The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A really contrived set of circumstances leaves a group of fun-seeking Fort Lauderdale spring breakers stranded at sea on a luxury yacht with some desperate criminals and a mutated killer cat for company.Uninvited is, to be completely honest, a total mess of a movie, with a ridiculous set-up, an incredibly unconvincing monster, and moments of utter tedium. On the flip side, it frequently enters 'so bad, it's good' territory, features a pair of extremely hot '80s babes (Clare Carey and Shari Shattuck, who spend most of their time in skimpy bikinis), and chucks in some reasonable gore (including some nifty 'erupting veins' bladder effects), making it one not to miss for fans of Z-grade trashy schlock.Try not to laugh whenever the moth-eaten moggie hand puppet barfs up a rubber parasitic mutant twice its size!! Marvel as buff beauty Bobbie (Carey) performs an unenthusiastic aerobics routine!! And wonder in incredulity at how Oscar winner George Kennedy wound up appearing in such tacky crud.4.5 out of 10, generously rounded up to 5 for Clu Gulager's goofy teeth and bottle glasses, and that really bad sinking model yacht at the end.

Greydon Clark's "Uninvited" is simply a movie that has next to nothing going for it, a dull and uninteresting pseudo-horror film from 1988, 90 minutes of inferior film-making with a very weak plot and even weaker execution, lazily paced with noted indifference by Mr. Clark."Uninvited" is a low-budget horror film whose plot revolves around a cat that's been genetically altered, which has recently escaped from a hi-tech animal research lab (in what looks like either Florida or southern California). But what makes this cat, an otherwise normal looking orange tabby unusual, is that it's a man-made harbinger from hell. On the outside it's an attractive feline specimen, however this big red furry pussy serves as "the host" to a man-made demon spawn, a parasitic murderous monster, that lurks within. This well conceived, but very poorly executed monster, is portrayed with utmost inconsistency by the use of several different puppets, which frequently exits it's unassuming looking host via it's mouth and proceeds to wreak death and destruction wherever it goes. Admittedly the idea itself sounds fairly compelling, however with Mr. Clark aboard that's as far as the inspiration goes, because the resulting movie turns out to be nothing but a lame waste of time and this is entirely do to the utterly uninspired and workman like execution of Greydon Clark. Just how poor old, Oscar-winning, George Kennedy got roped into this pitiful little B-horror film is anyone's guess, yet mercifully he's one of the films first victims and is killed about half-way through. The films primary setting is a large, high-dollar yacht, which is owned by a crooked white-collared businessman, whose enroute to the Cayman Islands to deposit $3,000,000 of ill-begotten cash to one of the islands many banks (a well-known and long-running embezzlers paradise). However, while enroute to the tropics, the winds turn foul and bad luck sets in and as the cliché line goes "but something went terribly wrong"!The yacht is filled with about 10 people to start with, the owner, two of his cronies, the captain and three college boys and some young, perky chicks, that happened to have caught the rich old horndog's eye, who wasted no time inviting them on his yacht. The three guys are nothing but opportunistic, party-loving, free-loading types, who serve little purpose other than to round-out the cast and to increase the movies kill count. But there's trouble aboard, from the murderous wrath of the hellspawn, to the seedy, manipulative ways of the crooked businessman, this stirs up double-trouble and makes for rough-sailing (as well as some rough and seriously lame viewing), as one by one people begin to fall to the monsters fangs and claws. As I alluded to earlier, the monster looks are different in virtually every sequence, especially the size of the damn thing - Mr. Clark chose a size and go with it. The action of this film is underwhelming to say the least and not a single monster encounter stirs up the slightest bit of intrigue or suspense, just boredom, though some of the films gore-effects are pretty decent, but hardly award-winning. Really the best thing about the Uninvited are the three sexy ladies, guests of Viagra-dependent, a trio of free-loading floozies that are in the habit of showing lots of skin as they frolic about the ship, often wearing bikinis and little else. In fact this movie shows precious little substance of any kind and as with all of Greydon Clark's movies all of the action is backed by terrible, amateurish, synthesizer music and generic music stings; yet another horror-movie cliché which Greydon Clark employed ineffectively, but as you'll notice, for this movie at least, that's par for the course.Ultimately "Uninvited" is a very feeble and utterly uninteresting 90 minutes of pure mediocrity and to further add insult to injury, is the fact that this movie resonates loudly with a strong and readily perceptible "Weekend at Bernies" vibe; and on top of that Weekend at Bernies is actually a better movie then this. Och!Once it's all said and done I'd advise you NOT to waste your time on this crappy movie. You need NOT invite the "Uninvited" to your home..... nor your collective unconscious.

Don't get me wrong, I love bad movies. My favorites are ones that are laughably bad. While this movie has a few of these bad/great moments, the time in between just drags on and on. Keep an eye out for the killer puppet (with hand attached), who is still a better actor than anyone else in the movie.

This film virtually evades falling into any type of horror genre you could think of: it's part sci-fi, part slasher, part comedy!!!A fluffy house cat escapes from some random laboratory and is adopted by two bimbos who've been invited to cruise down to the Bahamas with mobster Alex Cord and take the cat with them for good luck. Said kitty has some kind of rat-bat thing living inside it that emerges when kitty gets pi***ed off and then shreds anyone who comes too close - including henchmen George Kennedy and Clu Gulager!It's pretty funny stuff with a typical sequel-friendly ending (that was thankfully never taken up) and some really cheesy moments. Only for the voyeurs of crap cinema. I kinda liked it.