I can make some excuses for a movie from 1944, but there is only so much that I can overlook. The acting isn't great (not nearly as bad as I'd expected), the plot is poorly written to the point that I'm not really sure what I just watched, and the characters are hardly characters. Everything is just so weird. To start with, two grown adults are on holiday together when they somehow find an abandoned house, climb in through a boarded up window, fall in love with the house, know exactly who owns the property, and buy it together. The whole sequence is full of major plot conveniences, but with the assumption that this is a young couple, it's not a huge deal to just let them have that to get the story going. There is, however, a problem; our main characters are not a couple, they are brother and sister. Why on Earth are adult siblings vacationing together (just the two of them, mind you) an buying a home together to live in? The two actors are fine, but the relationship is very muddy. They both get love interests of questionable age difference, but the tension between the siblings come off a little more strongly. Again, Why are an adult brother and sister buying a home and vacationing together. It's not a family vacation, it's just the two of them. As far as the technical aspects, there is nothing concerning bad or notably good. I've seen people praise the cinematography, but all they ever mention are the sweeping shots in the cliffs and the ocean. The establishing shots are fine, but there are no fun camera angles or shots in the entire movie. Showing is an entirely too long shot of the ocean isn't beneficial to this movie at all. The effects are pretty good for a film from the 40's and are honestly better than some of today's terrible CGI films. My biggest issue is that the film is only an hour and a half, but the pacing is so bad and there is so little going on, that I was incredibly bored most of the time. The Uninvited (which doesn't even make sense as a title for this film) has historical value, but doesn't offer much to a contemporary audience.