Uninvited

Uninvited (2024)

A woman plots to take down the billionaire responsible for her daughter's death. She decides to attend his lavish party disguised as a charming wealthy donor.

Date of release
2024-12-25
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Thriller, Mystery, Crime
Director
Dan Villegas

Casting

Interesting facts

Uninvited is a 2024 Philippine mystery crime thriller film co-produced and directed by Dan Villegas from a story and screenplay written by Dodo Dayao. Starring Vilma Santos, Aga Muhlach, and Nadine Lustre, the film revolves around a mother who seeks revenge on a billionaire at his birthday party for being responsible for her daughter's death.

Production

Uninvited, with a working title of Project Red, was co-produced by Mentorque Productions and Project 8 Projects, with Dan Villegas as its director and Dodo Dayao as its writer. While Dayao is credited as Uninvited's writer, co-star Vilma Santos provided significant output for the film's story.

Mentorque has hinted that it has proposed several film projects for Santos as early as May 2024. Among these proposals were for a thriller film and Santos expressed interest to star in a type of project that she has never done before. In August 2024, Mentorque announced its collaboration with Project 8 Projects for a "dark" film starring Santos. Santos describes the film as a happening in 24 hours which starts nice but ends as "dilapidated".

Principal photography was already underway for the film as of September 2024. Production for Uninvited needed to be finished by the end of the month to be an eligible entry for the second batch of films for the 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival. The title of the film was announced in that month. Uninvited was filmed in several houses with the scenes edited in post-production to make it seem like they were set in one huge mansion.

The production team claims that Uninvited is the first film in the Philippines to be filmed with a pair of custom-built Cooke Optics Anamorphic Full Frame Special Flare lenses fitted in an Arri Alexa 35 digital cinema camera. CMB Film Services procured the equipment with the preferred specifications given by cinematographer Pao Orendain. The studio says the cost of the lens alone is enough to produce another film by itself.

The production team rejected the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board's recommendation to cut out some scenes for a more lenient rating, from R-16 to R-13.

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