Reviews of The Others 2001
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Remember when Nirvana exploded and every major label scrambled to sign any band they could find that was even remotely similar? Well, if The Sixth Sense is Nirvana (and given how quickly M Night Shyamalan squandered whatever goodwill his breakout hit engendered, I hesitate to draw the comparison), then The Others is Bush.
The themes, tone, essential plot points, and even the color palette are all lifted directly. To its credit, this is not immediately apparent, and the way the…
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I'm not a fan of horror, or should I say I haven't seen that many horror films that I've liked, but I quite liked this one. Nothing much happens but it is the way nothing happens that I found engaging. The film is ominous throughout and strangely captivating. Some really good performances in this one, especially by Kidman and the daughter.
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Alejandro Amenábar brings the world of ghosts and things that go bump to jersey, where Grace a mother of two waits for her husband to return home from the war, she hires three servants to help run the house, and at this time the children and grace start to encounter the others.
I think this is one of those films you could watch in 30 years’ time and it won’t age, I love films that you can re-watch to see another side to things. -
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It’s towards the end of WW2; Nicole Kidman is Grace Stewart living with her 2 photosensitive children in a huge remote house in England. She has strict rules to ensure they never come in contact with sunlight. As the house and her chores begin to get difficult to manage she is forced to hire a group of servants. As the rules begin to break down and they are plagued with a few unexplained events, Grace ultimately begins to suspect the…
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I'm not sure why but I got a kick out of the Others. Unlike the Prestige, where I saw the ending coming from a mile away because I watch too many films, I carried on enjoying The Others after pitching my theories to an unsuspecting wife. And whatta ya know? Right again. I think I may have to re-watch the Prestige.
It may be that I'm a massive Fionnula Flannigan mark. There's something about sassy old Irish women that rings my bell. Also any movie with Keith Allen AND Eric Sykes in can't be bad.
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As far as films about ghosts go over the last thirty years, a clear tie lands between M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough blockbuster THE SIXTH SENSE and this lesser seen, but equally strong American-Spanish co-production. While Shyamalan's film aims to be a strong, multi-thread, yarn with supernatural elements, this film is a classic, full-forced and trope-rich bullseye attempt at the ultimate haunted house movie and it achieves this in spades.
Tension and dread come in waves as we watch an amazingly…
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No me gustan las pelis de terror, porque la mayoría solo dan sustos y se olvidan de hacer cine.
'Los Otros', en cambio, no deja de lado el guión y las actuaciones, todo está en concordancia. Y eso parece que debe de ser muy difícil, a juzgar por los trabajos de la mayoría de los directores de cine de terror.
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Alejandro Amenábar’s Gothic psychological mood piece is mostly a transfixing spell of sustained atmosphere built by contained pools of light, isolated existence, Nicole Kidman’s high-strung, barely repressed frenzy and a general feeling of constant indefinable foggy dislodge. It may lead up to a transparently inevitable twist ending, but it smartly doesn’t put all its eggs in that basket. It satisfyingly inverts the ghost story whilst indulging in it old-school. More importantly, while we concentrate on Grace and her children facing…