Musician Ray Milland and his sister Ruth Hussey purchase a house on the Cornwall coast for a song. Of course their new abode, though empty, is still occupied. One of the great ghost films of the forties, The Uninvited locates the supernatural in the everyday as the duo engage with the felt but unseen spirit of a woman. The shivers come from never knowing just who is the scary woman from among a mostly female cast (on and "off" screen). The Uninvited shows that a good ghost, like a perfect mother, can weigh as heavily on a daughter as a bad one. And that a woman's desire can and will take on supernatural proportions, will moan through a house or fill a room with the smell of mimosa. With a veritable mother of an old dark house-and not forgetting ye olde Hollywood-style lesbian subtexte-this seascape is a fascinating canvas.