"The Uninvited", so absurdly terrible that it's unintentionally great horror comedy. in The Big, Blue, House. Year two.

Don watches a lot of low budget horror movies. Once in a while one is funny enough to hold my attention. I give ‘The Uninvited’ four & a half out five stars. Made in 1987, it has 2 stars on IMDB, with reviewers apparently divided into “love it” or “hate it”.

Nowhere am I seeing “comedy” mentioned, so I can only assume it was actually intended to be a straight horror movie. Which makes it even better, knowing that everyone involved in this absurdity actually took their roles seriously.

A killer cat, who only kills the mean, stupid, and violent characters. There are two people who aren’t portrayed as blithering idiots or raving assholes, and they’re the only ones left alive by the end. I was rooting for the puppet, and I wasn’t disappointed there. If you enjoy watching bimbos and jocks spurt fake blood and scream, then you’ll like this.

A budget so low that the effects are hilariously bad. “Blood” that is Crayola red. A “yacht” that looks like a plastic toy from Dollar General. A creature that is very plainly an inexpensive hand puppet. A suitcase full of “money” that was probably printed on a Lexmark home printer, on standard office paper.

A script that sounds like a high schooler wrote it, after watching several bad 70’s action movies. “I’ll get us back on course, baby!” “It’s not over yet!” Wikipedia says Graydon Clark wrote it. I wonder what his grades were in like, or if he ever even took a creative writing class. If you can’t be famous, be so bad that you become infamous.

And the “cat” lives! Presumably in case it did well enough to make a sequel, which it unsurprisingly did not.