Uninvited (2024 film)

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.

Scouting the party, she encounters her targets: Vega, his apathetic wife Katrina, his drug-addicted and rebellious daughter Nicole and her boyfriend Mark, his right-hand man Jigger Zulueta, and his enforcers Celso Batac and Randall Ballesteros.

Uninvited to the party, Lilia adopts the identity of Eva Candelaria, a donor who had donated a large sum to Katrina's foundation.

Devastated following their children's deaths, Lilia and Tofy's mother Norma meet and deduce that Vega was responsible following a tip from Norma's police officer cousin; Vega would send his men to abduct teenage girls for him to rape, before they would be killed or let go, bribing their families into silence.

Ballesteros, who had deduced Lilia's identity and informed Vega, engages in a gunfight with her, accidentally killing Mark and injuring Nicole in the crossfire.

[9] While Dayao is credited as Uninvited's writer, co-star Vilma Santos provided significant output for the film's story.

Due to Santos' candidacy for Batangas governor in the upcoming 2025 Philippine elections, production of the film was expedited.

[15] Lustre remarked that her role as Nicole is "very extreme" and is largely a "polar opposite" on how she acts in real life.

[5] 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.

[20] Uninvited was released theatrically on December 25, 2024, as one of the entries for the 50th Metro Manila Film Festival[2] by Warner Bros.

Cast of Uninvited during the MMFF Parade of Stars 2024 in Manila