Character: Alex Creator: Charles Guard & Thomas Guard Writer: Craig Rosenberg & Doug Miro Realese Date: 30 January 2009 Movie Company: Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller	Useful Links Photos Videos IMDb.com Wikipedia Official

After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother’s former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidences to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth about the fire in the boat house.

Arielle talking about Alex’s and Anna’s relationship:
I think we both agreed when we saw it that we, there was a lot of, like, touching between sisters and a certain, very cool intimacy that they had in their relationship. And it was really important to both of us that we kept that in this, you know, in just sort of telling our story and small things that we did. And, and, you know, like there’s this bedroom scene in the original, not the bedroom scene. That sounds really kinky. There’s this scene where, you know, they sleep together in the same bed, and that’s something that sisters do.

Talking about the differences between the original film and The Uninvited:
Yeah. There’s, like, kind of a few things that we had to take from the original movie and kind of do something similar. But at the same time, we didn’t, we’re not making the same film in an English version, do you know what I mean? Because the original film is awesome. It’s really excellent. And I know it has, like, a huge fan base. So, we’re not trying to make the same film again. We’re just, we have taken a lot of elements from it, yeah.

About Alex and Anna’s charachters:
And also, I think it’s really interesting that what she wanted to do with the character, I think, is really important, is that the obvious thing is that, you know, Alex is supposed to be sort of the stronger one, and Anna is, you now, the weak one or whatever. But that’s not really the case at all. I mean, that’s how it’s scripted. But I think the fun part about both, what we’ve brought is that it’s very obvious for Alex because she’s the sarcastic one. It would be obvious to make her like sort of the badass girl that hates the world, and to make Anna like the weak sort of an insecure girl. And, in fact, they crossover quite a bit, you know, although Alex is sarcastic and frustrated with the household situation. She’s really like hardheaded and she has a fun spirit and a zest for life about her. And Anna is really strong, I mean, that is what allows her to do, like all of these things. And, you know, it was really important to Emily to not make her weak.

About working with Emily Browning:
We have the same interest. We like to order tons of food, and just like taking a bunch of stuff, and then… We have the same, yeah, and we have like, at the audition we were wearing the exact same shoes. And then we realized we brought a lot of same clothes to Canada. And then, the whole boyfriends were at the same last name, and then food, and… I don’t know, it’s just all that…

About the producers and scrips:
Yeah. And I think that, actually, the, both the producers and the writer, one of our producers has done a lot of the rewrite for the script. And I think, we’ve been very fortunate because we have like, we sort of spent time talking about, obviously, I have a bit different lingo than Emily has ’cause she’s Australian. And, but we also do have some the same sort of like teenage common words or slang words that we both use. And when we discover we both use them, we thought it would be cool to sort of throw that in the script and just making a bit more relatable to the teenage audience that is gonna be watching it.

About Emily Browning and their relationship:
What’s cool, I think both of us is like, that we’re both able to have a lot of fun on set, which I think is important because again, it makes us relatable, and it makes us more like sisters. But I feel like we’re both pretty similar in the way that we handle sort of the more intense scenes, which is we work off of each other. I mean, work off each other in the happy scenes and we work off each other in the more difficult scenes. And, you know, we’re filming some pretty intense stuff last week.

About the bad and the goods:
I also think it’s a confidence thing, because I think the more you work, the more you realize that, you know, you truly have power to embrace a character. And I think once you have that confidence that gives you the power to say no because you know so dearly what you want and what you’re capable of that you can, you sort of have the hindsight to hold out and wait for those things. And sometimes, you’re not always in the position where you can, you know, wait for those opportunities. Sometimes you do need that middle project to get you to where you want to be. So, and that’s where, I think, having the right people around you really helps make the difference.

Any similar elements in the Asian themes and stuff:
Arielle Kebbel: I did notice in both the original, the Korean and the Japanese, they really, really go to dark places in telling a family story, you know? And they’re not afraid of human violence. And I think that’s why, that’s where the terror comes through, which then creates sort of the need for us to remake the story because it’s like, the words, no matter how confusing the story is in the Korean Tales Of Two Sisters or in The Grudge 2, it, the, it is such an intense story to watch that, you know, that’s why we want to retell it. So, there’s similarities in that respect, but as far as anything else, not really at all because, you know, this is much more, like we keep saying, it’s really like a psychological thriller. I mean, we don’t spell it out for you, you have to figure out what’s going on. And there’s a big sense of mystery, and ultimately, it’s about a family that is hurting and has some dark secrets and you don’t really know where the truth lies.

• ‘The Uninvited’ is a remake of a 2003 Korean Horror film Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003) (literally “Rose Flower, Red Lotus”) or “A Tale of Two Sisters,” starring Su-jeong Lim and Geun-Young Moon. It was directed by Ji-woon Kim and is the highest grossing Korean horror film to date.

• Don S. Davis’ final theatrical film.

• In the movie, Anna is meant to be fourteen/fifteen years old – in reality, Emily Browning was twenty years old at the time of filming.

• Emily Browning originally auditioned for the role of Alex.

• The book Anna’s father gives her in the car is titled The Repose of Sand. It’s also the book she’s seen reading later, in bed.

• A variation of clever camera angles and forced perspective helped maintain the illusion Elizabeth Banks was several inches taller than Emily Browning who in reality is only two inches shorter.

• Goof – Continuity: When you first see the mother the bell is on her left arm, but the next time you see the mother the bell is now on her right arm.

• Goof – Continuity: When Anna goes up to the attic, she pulls the light string and the light violently swings. In the next shot, it is perfectly still.

• Goof – Continuity: Near the end when Rachel has brought Anna back from the sheriff’s office and flings her on her bed, her arms land so they are laying above her head. In the next shot when Rachel has her back turned, Anna’s arms are at her sides even though she hasn’t moved. When Rachel turns around again, Anna’s arms are again over her head.

• Goof – Continuity: The graves on the headstones of the Wright children have the death date as 1986 but later when they are looking at the computer, Alex says the story is from 1996.