Omg, I just watched this movie, it was superb, the acting, the eerie atmosphere, the house, the story, the twist, everything was great. But I didn't for once thought about it as a comedy... So I came here on IMDb and saw it has comedy as genre at the first place... Could it be an error?
Ok there are few jokes, but nothing to compare this movie to a comedy IMO.
I was wondering the same thing. And in the recommendations is 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. I'll have to watch 'Streetcar' again because I don't remember how it's similar to 'Uninvited'! 'The Uninvited' reminded me of '13 Ghosts' or 'House On Haunted Hill'.
shareI think recommendations are not all well worth the title of real IMDb recommendations, cause sometimes they are recommended already just if they have the same director or same cast or something... so I very rarely trust IMDb recommendations.
shareSome of them don't make sense, just like the categories don't, lol. The mystery atmosphere in 'The Uninvited' reminds me of 'I Married A Witch' or 'The Thin Man', and those are kind of comedy, but I don't know how 'The Uninvited' can be listed as comedy either.
shareThe movie does HAVE comedy. Ray Milland said at the end how relieved he was, because Mary Meredith could have been his mother in-law. There were other little quips throughout the film, but I agree that its hard to classify it AS a comedy.
shareMaybe whoever wrote that classification fast-forwarded to the end, caught Ray's mother-in-law quip, and extrapolated! (?)
Ever go into a Border's and check out their DVD section? I've seen them list films like THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO and THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS as comedies -- which they by no stretch of the imagination are! I once found a war film called FLAT TOP in their comedy section and asked the clerk about it -- he shook his head and said, "I know, a lot of these categories don't make any sense" -- but in their case they're dictated by some nitwit at corporate HQ. I'm not sure IMDb exercises the care it should on things like this, judging from errors all over these boards.
There are comedic elements involved, but let's face it, this film is no comedy.
Faith can move mountains, but dynamite works better.
Comedies don't have to be funny. The classic way to describe a comedy is "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back."
A tragedy is when the hero (or protagonist) dies, but there's a rebirth of sorts.
Here are classic defnitions of comedy and tragedy:
Comedy
Defining the Comedy story archetype is problematic as in modern times the term has come to mean simply anything that is funny. Therefore stories constructed from the other basic plot types have been mistakenly termed comedies.
Aristotle described comedy as showing people to be worse than they are and tragedy as showing people to be greater than they are. In the classic definition of Comedy plots the characters are thrown into a state of confusion, darkness and bewilderment where resolution can only come when these constricting factors have been played out to their extremes.
Tragedy
In Aristotelian tragedy the central character is an individual (usually of great status) who goes through a series of actions and decisions that unwittingly brings about their own downfall. This downfall is supposed to provoke feelings of pity and fear in the audience and end in a catharsis or what is sometimes called a “purging” of emotion.
I love Jesus, but I drink a little.
If a film has Jim Carrey or Will Ferrell it's definitely a tragedy because I purge something awful.
shareComedies don't have to be funny. The classic way to describe a comedy is "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back."
I fucking lolled at your response.
shareIt appears that Comedy has been removed from the Genres category for The Uninvited. Amen to that.
"Blithe Spirit" is a comedy, this, in spite of it's few humorous moments, is no comedy.
I thought it was more humorous than romantic.
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Re films in video stores (do they exist anymore?) being labelled "comedy" when they're not, I used to work in a video-rental outlet and was informed that movies that aren't comedies are often labelled as such because the distributors believe that comedies sell/rent better than other categories. People come in looking for some light entertainment and are more likely to go with a comedy. That's what I was told, anyway.
Totally irrelevant to this thread, but gotta agree about Jim Carrey and especially Will Ferrell. Cannot bear to watch a film with either of them, and I'll add Jason Segal to that list. Horrible, all three of them!
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I'm set to watch it tonight,...but perhaps it's a comedy in the sense that And Then There Were None is a comedy...remains to be seen...
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