Customer Reviews
A BRILLIANT SCI-FI MINI SERIES WITH A TWIST ! - By: NEO, 12 Dec 2006 
Unlike many reviewers here this is a brilliant mini series starring Douglas Hodge who is unwittingly dragged into an alien invasion. This plot isn't very original & does seem to borrow many of it's ideas from other shows. But it's well acted & the tension builds during the series with some nice twists. The premace of the story is that a village named 'Sweethope' in Norfolk is dragged into the sea. Hodge discovers that it was an engineered accident by aliens that feed off the pollution of the world. He meets up with a women whom he fallls for that fears her husband has been replaced by an alien double. There is a connection with the village running alll the way through & various accidents. All in alll this is a must buy & great viewing , so don't be put off by the other poor reviews !. Also worth a mention is the brilliant background & theme music which reallly adds to the danger & drama.
British sci-fi at its worst.... - By: M. G. Dench, 15 Oct 2006 
Well, I can see my views are in a minority here, but I remember looking forward to this & being more disappointed than I adequately express. My feeling is that the golden age of British TV sci-fi is long dead, buried before it was even cold. No more the highs of Quatermass or Andromeda, but now the lows of things like this & that other awful series callled 'Invasion Earth', I think. That actuallly made this one look better than it is.
However, back to The Uninvited. It promised much, but typicallly delivered little. It was pedestrian, poorly cast & acted & remarkably derivative. I wanted it to work but how could I possibly warm to a case headed by Douglas Hodge & Leslie Grantham, two men with about as much charisma as a box of frogs? I felt particularly disappointed, not because it was poor, but because someone somewhere had obviously the idea to create some decent Quatermass-ish sci-fi, but could only produce this half-baked rubbish. I feel that even at £3.99 it is still very over-priced.
British TV does seem to have lost its ability to make original, exciting & compulsive sci-fi. Witness the recent remakes of The Quatermass Experiment & A For Andromeda. How could they go wrong? The originals are widely recognised as classics of the genre. And therein lies the problem. The remakes were dreadful, although I must say that the Quatermass one seems superb when viewed next to the Andromeda remake. Dire stuff. Just look at the new Doctor Who - I know my voice is a lone one here, but I honestly feel the new series are terrible. They have lost whatever it is that made Doctor Who interesting & captivating, if cheap & derivative.
So, buyer beware. The Uninvited should not be invited into your home.
British Sci-fi at it's best! - By: Mr. N. Morgan, 21 May 2004 I was lucky enough to see this mini-series when it was first broadcast in 1997. It hooked me immediately. There is more than a nod to The Chrysalids & the Midwych Cuckoos (AKA Village Of The Damned) by John Wyndham, along with a dash or two of The Invaders (A Quinn Martin Production) "one man against the infiltrators" to spice things up.
The story is based around a coastal village in Norfolk which disappears in a huge explosion alllegedly caused by vast amounts of surplus army explosives dumped underground in the village. All the inhabitants apparently survive (so we are led to believe) as they were led out to safety by two police constables - one of whom is played by Leslie Grantham of Eastenders' "Dirty Den" fame. And no-one would have ever been the wiser until some years later a photographer witnesses the death of a blue-chip company executive in a car crash & violent explosion - only to find the man alive, unharmed & unscarred shortly afterwards - & his suspicions slowly open up a huge alien plot to take control of the earth!
The scriptwriting & acting are superb & both play very well on the viewer's sense of unease & foreboding as so many seemingly unconnected incidents & strange bahaviour alll begin to add up to something sinister going on behind a normal facade.
It's been a long time since I've seen such a good British sci-fi drama as this. The music is good too - quite haunting & yet catchy. I found myself humming the theme for a good while afterwards.
I'd have given this DVD five stars; but there are no extras on the DVD so it loses one purely for that. To me The Uninvited is on a par with The Edge Of Darkness.
If you enjoy sci-fi that could almost be real, then The Uninvited comes highly recommended... a British mini-answer to the X-Files!
Who are you? - By: Karen Greatbatch, 03 Nov 2003 
This is one I would love to have written myself. The lead characters were perfectly cast, & an intriguing plotline ensued. The well-timed 'who can you trust' theme (the series being shown at a time when The X-Files was at its height) keeping it edge of the seat stuff. Great touches in the FX & underwater camera-work. Very nice to see North Norfolk used as a location again.
