San Francisco Chronicle by Peter Hartlaub

Won't make anyone forget "The Shining," but it's a nice throwback to the days when scary movies featured pretty good actors, a plot that holds together and a couple of creepy-looking ghost kids.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Emily Browning's face helps The Uninvited work so well...She makes you fear for her, and that's half the battle. Yet she's so fresh she's ready for a Jane Austen role.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

The Uninvited is a flawed production, but gratifying in the way it delivers. The interesting and unique elements of the movie effectively compensate for the formulaic way in which the plot develops.

L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

A remake of the 2003 Korean horror film "A Tale of Two Sisters," The Uninvited is a Hand That Rocks the Cradle–type thriller that's been dressed up as a horror movie.

USA Today by Claudia Puig

Don't be too quick to turn down The Uninvited. A stylish horror thriller in the vein of "The Ring," it's well-acted, frightening and handsomely produced

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

With visual nods to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and a fairly faithful adherence to the tenor and tone of the Korean scare genre, The Uninvited doesn't startle and shock so much as it lulls you into a series of unsettling, hallucinogenic set pieces.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

The actors are strong, however, and Banks in particular shows some skill and wiles in keeping her rascally stepmother stereotype lively.

Washington Post by Mike Mayo

Experienced horror fans will probably stay one step ahead of the game, but it's still a nice ride.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

The result is a middling Frankenstein-like hybrid of spectral mayhem and murder mystery, constructed entirely out of borrowed parts.

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Farber

The film is still cheesy rather than deliciously scary. It never really generates sustained suspense.