Written and directed by Greydon Clark
Starring George Kennedy, Alex Cord, Clu Gulager, Toni Hudson and Eric Larson
USA, 1987
The final film of the Hollywood Theater's 2023 edition of the All Night Horror Movie Marathon was UNINVITED, which is ostensibly about an evil mutant cat that stows away aboard a luxury yacht and kills its passengers one by one. But it's also about so much more. Like what, you ask? Well...
It's about two blonde babes who don't have a place to stay during spring break in Ft. Lauderdale.
It's about a trio of dudes who want to get laid -- the jock, the prep and the brain.
It's about a multimillionaire and his gang attempting to flee prosecution in the US by sailing to the Cayman Islands, where they can deposit three suitcases of cash and live out the rest of their lives in luxury.
It's about the daughter of a dead boat captain who is forced to work on her father's boat for the afore-mentioned multimillionaire who...
But seriously, who cares, right? All this movie had to do was give us the mutant cat killing people and it would have been more than enough, but instead it comes loaded to bear with two barrels full of boring subplots that go nowhere.
Partway through the movie I started to feel like I'd seen it before and couldn't figure out where. Eventually I realized I had seen highlights of it through Red Letter Media's show BEST OF THE WORST. And that's all you really need. If you're curious about it, check out that episode, because you don't want to have to sit through the whole thing.
Honestly, of the movies shown at the marathon, UNINVITED is the one that comes the closest to being "so bad it's good." The problem was we watched it after three other movies at 3:00 in the morning. If this had been first on the list, I would have likely been laughing my ass off: the movie makes no sense, has terrible special effects, and even though it doesn't start out great, at a certain point partway through it's as if everyone lost interest and gave up even more than they already had at the beginning.
By the way, this is not to be confused with Horrorfest alum THE UNINVITED (note the "the") which is a legitimately good ghost movie.
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