If there’s one thing the horror genre is really good at, it’s making remakes that don’t live up to the original. There are so many that it’s become a running joke across the medium; sure, every now and then there’s an amazing, innovative remake like 2013’s Evil Dead, but usually, these rehashings of classic plots only serve as weak copies that can’t compete with the original. Few are as infamous as the dreaded American remake of a foreign film, copies of legendary movies that reduce the original movie’s plot to a much simpler copy, with one of this category’s biggest offenders being The Uninvited.

Directed by The Guard Brothers, this film about two sisters trying to uncover the secrets of their evil stepmother was met with a resounding indifference when it premiered in 2009. A decent finale twist keeps it alive in modern conversations, but even this intriguing climax can’t shed its reputation as a largely unremarkable film, which is extremely unfortunate — for the original movie it’s based on. Because, while The Uninvited is critiqued for its predictable plot and scares, its predecessor is lauded as a classic, a showcase of everything amazing about Korean horror cinema that unnerves anyone who watches it. Unfortunately, The Uninvited couldn’t meet these lofty heights (few movies could) but audiences should not let that film’s banality stop them from watching the absolute masterpiece that is Kim Jee-woon’s A Tale of Two Sisters.