For some reason, Greydon Clark released Uninvited direct-to-video on 24 August 1988. He shot on 35 mm film. And he presented it the prior April at a screening in Mobile, Alabama. That screening may have been responsible for its lack of a theatrical release. But I doubt it. It was the glory days of the home video revolution and people were making a lot of money from it. So it was probably money.

For a brief summary of the film, read my capsule review of the film. It is the one with the evil cat that comes out of the mouth of a beautiful long-hair orange house cat. The evil cat kills a ton of people and then goes back inside. In that way, it is much like the prior year’s The Hidden. I seriously doubt that is a coincidence.

A friend mentioned that Weirdhouse Cinema had done a recent episode on the film and mentioned the evil cat coming out of house cat. And I said I hadn’t seen it. So I sat down that night to watch it. The cat kills a couple of people and I’m thinking, “Awesome. This is my kind of film. Glad I found it.”

And then the college students showed up and I knew I had seen it.

So why did I completely forget about the defining element in Uninvited but remembered the college students? I see weird stuff like evil sub-cats and leave gory bodies in their wake all the time. I like it but I don’t have a strong emotional reaction. But annoying college students?! That’s like a dagger to my heart. Or spikes to my eyes.

I understand why they are there. High school students think college students are cool. And adult screenwriters can’t think of college students as anything but annoying. Clark was 45 when he made the film. And the four most annoying ones all get killed, so I’m not exactly complaining.

Now you could definitely make the case that none of this would be a problem if I watched films made for adults. But it’s hardly my fault. There are only so many films like The Awakening and Absentia. And again, I’m not complaining. The college students are there to annoy me. So I remember them.

I recommend checking out Uninvited. It’s a hoot!

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Uninvited (1988) poster via Wikipedia under Fair Use.