She then finally remembers what happened on the night of the fire: after catching Steven and Rachel having sex, she became enraged, filled a watering can from a gasoline tank in the boathouse, and carried it toward the house, intending to burn it down. Anna looks down to find that the bloody knife is in her hand. Confused and panicked, Steven asks what Anna is talking about: Alex had died in the fire along with their mother. When Steven arrives home, Anna explains that Rachel tried to murder them and Alex saved them. When she wakes up, she finds that Alex has killed Rachel and thrown her body in a dumpster in their backyard. Rachel sedates Anna and puts her to bed Anna sees Alex in the doorway with a knife before passing out. Anna escapes and goes to the local police station, but they do not believe her and eventually call Rachel to take her home. While Steven is away on business, the girls try to gather evidence against Rachel to show the police, but Rachel catches them and sedates Alex. The police state he fell from his boat and drowned.Īfter the sisters are unable to find a record of Rachel with the State Nursing Association, they conclude she is actually Mildred Kemp, a nanny who killed the children she was taking care of after she became obsessed with their widowed father.

Anna has a ghastly hallucination of him and, the next morning, his dead body is pulled out of the water, his back broken. The two secretly plan to meet that night but Matt fails to show up.

Anna meets up with her old boyfriend Matt, who tells her he saw what happened the night her mother died, but Rachel intervenes before he can explain further.Īnna goes with Rachel into town, so Alex can look through Rachel’s possessions, and Anna can talk to Matt again. The girls remain angry at Steven for moving their mother into the boathouse when she got sick, her only way of calling for help being a bell that Rachel tied to her wrist. Back at home, Anna reunites with her older sister Alex and comes to learn their father Steven has a new girlfriend, Rachel Summers, who had been their mother's live-in nurse.Īnna and Alex become convinced that Anna's nightmares are messages from their mother, telling them that Rachel murdered her so that she could be with Steven. The film received mixed reviews.įollowing a suicide attempt after her terminally ill mother died in a house fire, Anna Ivers is discharged from a psychiatric institution after ten months she has no memory of the actual fire, though recurring nightmares from that night frequently plague her.

It is a remake of the 2003 South Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, which is in turn one of several film adaptations of the Korean folk tale Janghwa Hongryeon jeon. The Uninvited is a 2009 American psychological horror film directed by the Guard Brothers and starring Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, and David Strathairn.

The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones