Nicole Kidman

Alakina Mann

Fionnula Flanagan

James Bentley

Eric Sykes

Christopher Eccleston

Elaine Cassidy

Renée Asherson

Gordon Reid

Keith Allen

Michelle Fairley

Alexander Vince

Ricardo López

Aldo Grilo

Sonia Grande

Tom Cruise

Sunmin Park

Rick Schwartz

Alejandro Amenábar

Harvey Weinstein

Fernando Bovaira

Bob Weinstein

Javier Aguirresarobe

Nacho Ruiz Capillas

Benjamín Fernández

José Luis Cuerda

Paula Wagner

Shaheen Baig

Jina Jay

Carmen Soriano

Miguel Ángel González

Emiliano Otegui

Eduardo Chapero-Jackson

Maite Rivera Carbonell

Steve Ellis

Julio Madurga

Yolanda Cáceres

Eduardo Díaz

Ricardo Steinberg

Salvador Comes

Julián Martín

Peter Owen

Úrsula García

Belén López-Puigcerver

Félix Bergés

José Antonio García Tapia

Arturo Aldegunde

Irene Ballesteros

Walter Leonardi

Emilio Ardura

Brian Gibbs

Álex F. Capilla

Geoff Foster

José Luis González

Elli Griff

Stanley B. Burns

Sergio Burmann

Derek Langley

Claudia Adriazola

Javier Chinchilla

Isabel Díaz Cassou

Enrique Bello

Carmen Díaz

Antonio Sánchez-Romo

Carlos del Hoyo

Carlos García

Trilby Norton

Ana López-Puigcerver

Laura Muñoz-Rojas

Maite Bermúdez

James Seddon

Sonia Gonzalo

Miguel Pedregosa

Carlos Santana

Ana Cuerda

David Greenbaum

Juan de Andrés

Natalia Montes

Sandra Frieze

Jonathan Sanger

Felisa Catalinas

Juan Luis Pedrero

Graham Aikman

Salvador Gómez Calle

Susan Ball

Luis Pérez Dávila

Pedro Jesús De la Fuente

María José Almela

Lucio Godoy

Garson Yu

Rafa Solórzano

Julien Naudin

Camilla Evans

Eva Muslera

Guillermo Escribano

John Bateman

Claudio Ianni

Guillaume Delamare

Javier de Oleza

Kerry Warn

Luis Casacuberta

Daniel M. Villalba

Claire Amondaray

Marian Fernández Pascal

John Bailey

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Thriller

The Others

Cruise/Wagner Productions

Sogecine

Las Producciones del Escorpion

Spain

United States of America

France

English

nightmare

suicide attempt

christianity

shotgun

servant

cemetery

world war ii

nanny

haunted house

bible

channel islands

mansion

soldier

gardener

photosensitivity

1940s

spiritism

jersey island

baffled

ominous

supernatural thriller

Spectral happenings on an estate in the Channel Islands after WWII (no spoilers)

RELEASED IN 2001 and written & directed by Alejandro Amenábar, "The Others" is a haunted house flick about a woman (Nicole Kidman) who lives in an old manor on one of the Channel Islands with her two photosensitive children immediately after WWII. After three people arrive seeking employment, they increasingly become convinced that the abode is haunted.

While this is a fantasy movie in that it depicts supernatural happenings, like doors mysteriously opening and closing, these types of unexplainable things have been known to happen. The movie is a serious exploration of what may really be occurring. The mansion seems sterile and there’s a one-dimensional pale ‘look’ to the bulk of the picture, which was intentional for obvious reasons. Speaking of which, the perpetually fog-laden grounds create a nice ghostly ambiance.

Everything hinges on whether the last act effectively reveals the truth and it does. The film provides intriguing food for thought.               

THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour, 44 minutes and was shot in Cantabria, Spain (exteriors of the mansion); Penshurst, Kent, England (The Lime Walk) and Madrid. 

GRADE: B/B-

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"Grace" (Nicole Kidman) lives in her almost blacked-out stately pile on Jersey where her two children "Nicholas" (James Bentley) and "Anne" (Alakina Mann) are hyper-sensitive to light. When her staff mysteriously abscond, she has to employ a new housekeeper "Mrs. Mills" (Fionnula Flanagan), and together they must ensure that the children are always locked into a room with no access to any windows that are not shrouded by thick curtains. The suddenly she hears a noise. Maybe a voice, even? She searches in vain but these odd occurrences start to multiply. Their usually fastidious household routines start to unwind, doors are left unlocked and the children start telling their mother of people moving around the house - folks that she cannot see! Just what's going on? Are these happenings connected with "Mills" and the new staff? Great news when husband "Charles" (Christopher Eccleston) returns from the War - shellshocked and distant, or then again - does he actually return at all? "Grace" is becoming increasingly paranoid. She can't tell what's real and what's not - and her children are only fuelling her fears! Although way darker and more sinister, this actually reminded me a little of the "Amazing Mr. Blunden"! A ghostly story that uses children as a conduit between what might have been, or is, or may yet to be. The young Bentley and Mann deliver effectively here as director Alejandro Amenábar uses the dark and creaky house, extensive and frequently misty grounds and a creative sound effects mixer to create a genuine sense of menace. It's very hard to be innovate with this genre, there's just so much we have all seen before, but Kidman paces herself well here delivering a story that's not so predictable as we might have expected.

Official 4K Restoration Trailer

The Others( 2001)

Sooner or later they’ll find you.

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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Sun May 13 2018

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