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The Others
on DVD (2001)
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| Starring: |
Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes, Renee Asherton, Keith Allen |
| Director: |
Alejandro Amenabar |
| Studio: |
BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time: |
104 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Collections: |
100 Horror Films, 100 Top Thrillers |
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| Genres: |
Horror, Thriller |
| Languages: |
English |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
English |
| Released: |
23/09/2002
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Brief synopsis of The Others
THE OTHERS begins with a close-up of a woman screaming. By the time this intense film ends, everyone watching it will be screaming and gasping. Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, a woman raising two children by herself in a creepy mansion. World War II is over, but Grace's husband never returned. Meanwhile, the two children, Anne and Nicholas, must constantly stay in the dark because they are deathly allergic to light. Then one day, three people show up to take over for Grace's disappeared staff, and trouble starts to brew. The odd trio--an aging nanny, an elderly gardener, and a young mute girl--seems to have a slightly different agenda than Grace and the children do. But when Anne starts talking to strange, unseen people, the scares start building to an incredible climax.
Alejandro Amenabar's highly stylized English-language debut is one of the finest films in the haunted-house genre. Not only did Amenabar write and direct the film but he composed the eerie music as well. Kidman is outstanding as the overprotective mother trying to save her children, while Fionnula Flanagan excels as the nanny with a deep, dark secret. Because the children must remain in darkness, Grace must lock every door behind her, to make sure that the children don't accidentally enter a brightly lit room; it is a marvelous horror-film device that Amenabar uses to perfection.
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
Open Your Eyes director Alejandro Amenábar references such tastefully literate chillers of the past as The Haunting and The Innocents in this, his English-language debut feature. Nicole Kidman gives a powerful turn as a highly strung woman living alone in a postwar Jersey mansion with her two light-sensitive children. It's when she engages a trio of new servants that her shadowy home suddenly turns very creepy indeed, as her daughter starts to see “things” and they all experience seemingly supernatural events. Relying on deliberately old-fashioned bumps in the night for suspense and Gothic spookiness, Amenábar invokes the spirit of RKO horror producer Val Lewton — of Cat People fame — to create a study in terror that relies on performance, atmosphere and mood rather than anything too tangibly modern. Almost resembling a serious high art version of Beetle Juice, this frostily macabre melodrama is for those who prefer their goose bumps delivered with sophistication, not a sledgehammer.
New York Times
"...Mr. Amenabar's command of the syntax of fright is impressive....Ms. Kidman embodies this unstable amalgam with a conviction that is in itself terrifying..."
Variety
"...A luxuriously old-fashioned star vehicle custom fit to its topliner's strengths, which come across to sensational effect....A delicious goose-pimpler..."
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