The Others (DVD)

TITLE: The Others CAST: Nicole Kiddman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleson, Alakina Mann, James Bentley. RELEASE DATE- 2002 DIRECTOR: Alejandro Amenabar WRITER: Alejandro Amenabar RUNNING TIME: 101 Minutes RATED: 12 (UK) MY RATING: 9/10 ----------------------------------------------- MY EXPERIENCE -------------------------------------------------- Okay, first things first, there is nothing in this movie that is scary. Nothing at all ...
...a couple of times throughout the film. The director has filmed it in such a way, that even the most normal of things gets you prepared to jump. I've heard people compare this film to The Sixth Sense, but this film is so much more enjoyable because the ratings quite low and it's not gory or anything in anyway. It stands on its own this film does and I think it's just a perfect piece of cinematography. The film is quite religious, not so much that ...

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...a real popcorn-chucker which had the whole cinema out of their seats. See below for a spoiler free plot summary . . . Performances ------------ Nicole Kidman is all over this film. Apparently, she didn't want to do it after Moulin Rouge. Perhaps the fact that Tom Cruise is a producer didn't help. Her performance though is wonderful as a prim, grieving, deserted, slightly wasted and totally barmy housewife. They say that good actors can act with ...
...though she is perpetually on the edge of tears and the fear looks quite convincing. Christopher Ecclestone as the husband is excellent in a lost, shell shocked, zombie kind of way. Eric Sykes tops up his pension with a tolerable performance and Keith Allen does a cast-against-type cameo which is too short. The best performance here though is from Alakina Mann who plays the daughter. Horror films with children are made or broken by the casting of ...

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...English film, one that upholds the traditional elements of an old-fashioned thriller. Well, that would be until you remembered that the lead actress is an American/Australian, the director, screenwriter and composer is a Spaniard, and that the location is not Jersey but Spain. (in fact, its about as English as paella!) But, Alejandro Amenabar (probably made most famous by 'vanilla sky', Cameron Crow's horrific remake of the Spanish 'Open Your Eyes') ...
...'Remains of the Day' in this his first English language film. If you are willing to give "The Others" the full 101 minutes running time, then you will definitely not be sitting comfortably by the end of the film. Grace Stewart’s (Nicole Kidman) servants have all mysteriously disappeared, leaving her alone to look after her two young children Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas, (James Bentley) whilst waiting for her husband (Christopher Ecclestone) ...

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Fans of the horror genre haven’t been treated with a multitude of ‘serious’ films. This is partly because a lot of people don’t mind to see some dumb teenagers getting hacked to death by a guy in the mask. Studios like it because not only is it cheap but can also rake in some big box office bucks. However with the Scream franchise ending on a more than mediocre note and the beating the genre got from Scary Movie (and the subsequent own suicide of ...
...and scary films with give the audience some credit. Starting, most notably, in 1999 with The Blair Witch Project a film that raked in big cash on a shoestring budget. In the same year came The Sixth Sense. These two films showed that you can have scares with minimal blood, violence and breasts. The Others can be likened to the aforementioned movies in style. Yet it also harks back to the old fashioned stories of haunted houses, ghosts and creepy ...

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Ah, the post modern deconstruction of irony and sarcasm continues apace. In the absence of originality, Ben has fallen into the trap of using the stalwart “calling a spade a spade” school of writing. See also “Insert Hilarious Title Here” and “This Is My Title”. Ben likes to play with your expectations. Ben is a cheeky monkey. And so is Alejandro Amenábar, the director of The Others. He’s been playing with ...
...tell you about it... THE STORY (spoiler free): Nicole Kidman plays Grace, a slightly irritable Englishwoman who lives in a huge house in Jersey with her two children. She has placed an advert for some home help, after her last servants mysteriously vanished. Her husband has not come back from war, and is missing presumed dead. Her children are a further cause of concern for her already shattered nerves, as they are photosensitive – overexposure ...

peppersinclaire 07.11.2001 (10.05.2002) · Read full review
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...country house on Jersey in the Channel Islands, just after WWII, Grace (Nicole Kidman), a very highly strung and nervous woman is finding life even more stressful than usual. As if she hasn’t got enough to contend with, what with her husband being missing in action presumed dead and her two kids Anne and Nicholas suffering from a rare photo-sensitive condition which, if they were exposed to anything more than the light of an oil-lamp, would ...
...at least fill some of the domestic positions. However it’s not long before her nerves are nipping her again as strange things begin to happen in the house. A child’s crying can be heard. Doors which should be locked are found opened. Footsteps can be heard coming from upstairs altho theres no-one up there, the piano can be heard but the room should be empty and most spookiest of all, Anne insists that she can see and talk to “the ...

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...hadn't really heard much about the film, hadn't even seen the adverts but I knew that Nicole Kidman was in it and it was supposed to be a great ghostly adventure ~ PERFECT! Just my thing! Nicole Kidman stars as a young woman named Grace, we see her with her 2children, Anne and Nicholas living in a big country mansion. The father/husband doesen't seem present and we then learn that he is missing in World War II. The story goes on to reveal the family ...
...the previous workers have somewhat 'dissapeared' into thin air and left!? (This is when you start to realise this film isn't going to be too normal!) One foggy morning Graces' problems are solved when 3 people knock at the door: Ms Bertha Mills who is acted by Fionnula Flanagan offers to be the nanny and she is accompanied by Lydia who wishes to do the housework (Elaine Cassidy) who for some reason cannot speak (She is a mute) and a groundskeeper ...

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‘The Others’ is one of the scariest films I’ve ever seen. Set in Jersey at the end of WW2, it stars Nicole Kidman as Grace, a neurotic, deeply religious woman who’s husband is missing in action at the front. In a huge, dark mansion, she is raising her two children, Anne and Nicholas, who’s photosensitivity means that all curtains must be permanently drawn and all doors locked so that they never get exposed to the light. ...
...not conscripted but volunteered for the war – Grace is further disturbed by events which suggest that the house is haunted. The arrival of 3 new servants – the others having left suddenly – then seems to exacerbate the supernatural occurrences. Anne is conversing with the ghosts (which Grace at first refuses to believe in), and Nicholas is scared out of his wits. Whispers are heard, things move inexplicably, piano music echoes ...

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The others, is a film starring Nicole Kidman as Grace a woman whose husband has gone to fight in the war. She is caring for her two children who both suffer from a severe form of 'photophobia'. With which when subjected to any stronger light than a gas lamp, they get covered in blisters and sores. But all is not what it seems in this ghostly tale, which devotes the whole film (bar the last few minutes) to just seven people. Firstly we have Grace ...
...readily employs. These are in the form of: Fionnula Flanagan as the housekeeper/nanny, Elaine Cassidy as the mute dogsbody, and the comical Eric Sykes, playing it dead straight as the gardener Grace instructs them in their duties, and demands that the rules of: 1) Each door must be shut before the next one is opened and 2) the curtains stay pulled at all times, MUST be adhered to at all times. Ann is convinced of the presence of a lad in the house ...

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...supernatural thriller type films like The Sixth Sense. The cast is excellent and the storyline and script as faultless. There's also a couple of good effects thrown in there for good measure too. I've never been in a film where people have actually screamed! I couldn't believe this film was only rated 12. Some people walked out when I saw this film. I'm not sure whether it was because they got bored or it was too scary. This isn't an action film ...
...bit weird and scary in the film! The film is set on a channel island in 1945, just after the war has ended. Grace and her two photosensitive children (allegeric to light) live in a huge house. I mean, really massive and your typical haunted house. Three new servants arrive one day (the others had dissapeared for no apparent reason) and Grace's daughter reveals that she has seen and spoken with some sort of person in the house. Graces refuses to ...

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...her Australian roots and transcends the earthbound baseness of the flesh. It is fitting then that this vision of loveliness should be given the chance with the eerie film The Others to come firmly out into the cold light of day to seize the moment. This film is self consciously serious, and avowedly earnest, the sort of studied and mannered exploitation of the supernatural and ghostly which seems to have disappeared without trace these last twenty ...
...effect became de rigeur with The Exorcist in the 1970's, the subtlety, touch and dramatic effect have given way to the gore, the bloodthirsty and up front in the field of horror, with Wesley Snipes' Blade series being pretty symptomatic of how modern horror is contrived. True, there have been some other films which relied on mystery and suspense for their appeal, movies such as The Shining and The Omen, but they also enjoyed their own share of action ...

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The Sixth Sense was one of these films that succeeded through very strong word of mouth. In the USA the same thing seems to be happening with The Others, which has hung around the US top ten box office for many weeks. It’s also interesting to note that both these films share certain similarities. Both are ghost stories and it seems that audiences can’t get enough of them. Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, a somewhat prudish mother who lives ...
...Flanagan) offers her services as the housekeeper. Assisting her is the young mute Lydia (Elaine Cassidy) and an old groundskeeper Mr Tuttle (Eric Sykes). On a tour of the house we see that Grace is somewhat strict and has some unorthodox practices. Each door must be locked behind the person who enters it and the entire house must be kept in very dense light. It seems the children have an illness that makes them have extreme reactions to normal light. ...

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- Introduction - The Others is a 1940s ghost story, made in 2001 and starring Nicole Kidman. It was recently shown on TV and I know my parents had seen and enjoyed it, so I thought I'd give it a go. There haven't been too many similar movies recently, so I was interested to see what this was like. - Main Credits (non-actors, which are mentioned further on in the review) - Source:- IMDB (see:- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/fullcredits) Director ...
...main acting cast) - The Others is all about a mother, Grace Stewart (played by Nicole Kidman), and her daughter Anne (played by Alakina Mann) and son Nicholas (played by James Bentley), who have moved into a large, mansion like old house on Jersey, in 1945, where she waits to be reunited with her husband, Charles (played by Christopher Eccleston), who had been serving in WWII. At the start of the movie, Grace opens the front door to three women, ...

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Set on the Channel Islands, just after the end of World War Two, The Others tells the story of Grace – a young mother of two children, who lives alone with the children in a large, secluded house. When her staff suddenly vacates the house, she is left without any servants to help her run the house and look after the children. Early one morning, she is awoken by a knock at the door, where she finds three cold figures, looking to find employment ...
...to show them around the house – where things are not as they might expect. All the curtains are kept permanently closed, and as doors are opened, any others leading into the room must be closed and locked first. It transpires that Grace’s two children – Anne and Nicholas – are terribly photosensitive and the two infants spend all their lives in darkened rooms, cowering from natural light. The three housekeepers quickly settle ...

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...honest that was one of the main reasons for going to see this movie and of course it had that old actor Eric Sykes in it. Remember him in the series with the lovely Hattie Jacques, maybe a bit before your time... Anyway in this film our lovely Nicole plays the part of a strict mother of two young kids, a girl and a boy. She is very old fashioned in the film and I must point out that both children can't stand daylight, I can't remember the name for ...
...us... The young daughter starts seeing ghosts and one in particular called Victor. The movie builds up as a family call at the door and become their servants. I thought this a bit weird as they just pop up at this large mansion in the back arse of nowhere and Nicole just hires them..Pleaseeeeee.... Anyway back to the film and it's starting to get more and more scary and I near jump out of my seat as I turn round and see the wife smiling..Like any ...

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