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Summary: There will be no place to hide.
Review: I saw this movie when I was ten only 3 years ago, and it scared the heck out of me. Anyone who wants a good scare, and a jump around each corner now and then, then you'll love this movie. Once you see it, you could imagine what it was like on the big screen. Of course, things are always better when they're on the big screen. Whenever another movie like this comes out, you don't want to miss it. You'll be sitting at the edge of your seat every minute of the time.Grace (Nicole Kidman) is looking for a few honest hard working people to do the chores for the house. When Mrs. Mills, Mr. Tuttle, and a young girl named Lydia come along, they seem like perfectly normal people, except for the fact that Lydia just stopped talking one day. When Grace introduces them to her children Anne, and Nicholas; it turns out that the two have a very strange allergy to light. As the three new workers grow accustomed to the house, it seems that someone else has also come along with them. Strange noises can be heard in empty rooms. Anne says she keep seeing 4 people of a family, and Grace takes a look for herself and sees nothing, but hears very much. Who is really there, and what do they want? Two days after watching this again, I bought it right away. I couldn't resist passing up a great suspense thriller as that. You're sure to have nightmares for quite a while. It's the price for being entertained. Don't think twice about it. The Others will surely send a chill up your spine.
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Summary: This movie gave me the creeps!
Review: And at 48 not much does anymore. Excellent ending.
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Summary: Quiet, atmospheric ghost story
Review: Probably the best ghost story I've seen in many years, and one of the handful that I'm not afraid to let my children watch. It's actually a strange love story. I don't want to ruin the surprises for those who haven't watched it, so I won't talk about the plot. The acting is superb, and the mood is wonderfully atmospheric throughout.
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Summary: A Haunting Gothic Masterpiece
Review: The Other's is one of my favorite films of all time and my absolute favorite ghost movie. Eerie, suspenseful, emotionally involving, gorgeous to behold, and some of the most memorable ghosts ever. It includes the great elements of any classic gothic thriller: a large isolated old manor enveloped by an ominous blanket of fog, suspicious servants, a rather peculiar owner of the house, strange noises and unexplainable events, and an atmosphere that just reeks of doom and gloom. But the story and the characters make this a cut way above the usual and a tremendously rewarding movie watching experience. The film kicks off with a mystery and the tension subtly grows from there. Three people show-up on the doorstep for employment before the Missus of the household had a chance to place an advertisement. hmmm...... As the new servants, they must learn all the rules of the house which include always insuring that they shut and lock each door behind them and never ever allowing even a smidgen of sunlight to sneak in from behind the heavy drapes of each room. The house is also occupied by two small children who are vigilantly watched over by their firm and no-nonsense mother. Seems the little ones suffer from some strange rare disorder. hmmm.... Tension mounts as doors are left open (it wasn't the help - they swear it wasn't), noises echo from empty rooms, the kids talk to invisible people, those sneaky servants cover up some graves they discover on the property, and a former member of the household returns only to quickly disappear. I was pleasantly surprised by Nicole Kidman as the uptight mom. She gives an exquisitely layered performance of a woman rigid on the outside but terrified and lonely within. Her character is the heart and soul of this movie and Miss Kidman is impeccable. Don't expect any splashy special effects, objects hurling threw the air and attacking people, or gruesome beasties running amuck. The Other's starts off as a whisper that softly builds until it climaxes with a scream of such agony you'll feel you've been kicked in the gut. That is just how good it is!
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Summary: "Ths Sixth Sense", it ain't
Review: Regrettably, I found this movie to be the most agonizingly ponderous ghost story that I have ever had the misfortune to view. My feelings about "The Others" are in such stark contrast to the many ovationary reviews that this motion picture received, that if I didn't know better, I would entertain the possibility that I had mistakenly viewed a differant movie of the same name. The most disconcerting aspect of "The Others", in my opinion, was the incredible length that writer/director Alejandro Amenabar went to in order to keep the audience not merely guessing, but totally confused and disoriented. Pile onto a script that was peppered with an almost unprecedented degree of misdirection (no pun intended) an ending that was absolutely unpredictable even to the most prescient viewer and it is not surprising that this movie will fail to satisfy some viewers when Amenabar delivers his too-little, too-late payoff. I would suggest that viewers looking for the kind of incredibly clever plot twist so adeptly crafted and flawlessly executed (and which delivers an emotional whallop)in "The Sixth Sense" look elsewhere. "The Others" take a stab at pulling off an equally brilliant coup de theater but misses by a wide margin. After all, there would seem to be something of importance missing in a ghost story when the movie's most suspenseful moment had me cringing because I feared that Nicole Kidman would walk into a tree while navigating through a heavy stay-off-the-moors fog. That was the real nailbiter for me. Not surprisingly the spectral fog scene leads to yet another completely unexpected plot development which in turn adds nothing to the narrative of the film, but which added considerably to my burden of already-existing confusion. Put simply, the mystery of "The Others" can be reduced to a simple question: someone has lost it in Kidman's Gothic manor.
Who? Has Kidman gone around the bend? Or is her totally annoying daughter who, despite living in a really freaky place in the middle of nowhere, and who seemingly remains unruffled by cohabitating with the undead, a bad seed herself hellbent on making Mom look psychotic? By the timeI walked the torturous path Amenabar had lead me on for two hours and I found out what exactly had been going on my confusion had escalated into vertigo and I was ready for "Seinfeld".
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Summary: It's A 5.
Review: Great movie, with a twist at the end. I don't want to get into details and ruin it for anybody, but there's a creepy home, ghosts and things going bump in the night.
Nicole Kidman, as usual, shines in this one.
I had no idea about the plot, but upon watching it, I was pleasently surprised. It's definetely worth owning (you know, for around Halloween time when it's just you and the missus sitting in the dark watching movies).
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Summary: Inevitable comparisons.
Review: This has all the mood and style of "The Sixth Sense." There, I said it. I've joined the club. There is even a surprise plot-twist at the end. The darkly mesmerizing ambience is carefully captured with elegant photography, and all the actors here are notable. I love seeing a film with great child acting. The universal child-like fear of the unknown is the central theme throughout, and the two child actors here convey authentic fear. But the standout performance here is from Nicole Kidman. This is one of my favorites in her catalog. There are many films in which she is stoic or comes across as an Ice Queen, fairly reluctant to show her emotional range. But here she had me interested in her character on an emotional level; and how her character is dealing with the unusual, supernatural circumstances. Like "The Sixth Sense" this film will look completely different during the second viewing. This is a well-acted film with tight direction and a good script. I was enthralled all the way to the creepy conclusion. Turn the lights out and enjoy.
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Summary: A great supernatural movie
Review: Nicole Kidman can do no wrong, no matter what she plays.
This movie is well scripted and the scenery adds to the suspense.
The plot is well done and the ending will surprise you.
Though it's not one of the scariest supernatural films that I have seen, it keeps you guessing. It is worth having this film in your movie library.
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Summary: B-Grade, but it¿s still very good...
Review: For all its pretenses, "The Others" is a basic "Haunted House" story. As a film, it's pretty much B-Grade, but it's still very good. The acting, the cinematography, the film score in "The Others"- all are great, and contribute to the overall effect of the film. I'm not that much of a devotee of ghost stories, so yes, the ending came as a surprise to me. At least in these ways, the film worked. Unfortunately, the script seemed to plod along slowly for the first an hour or so, and the series of events that held the story together seemed rather weak. Since I borrowed the dvd from someone and didn't feel obligated to watch it in total, there were two or three junctures during the film that I was tempted to stop it and do something else, like the laundry. Despite that, I watched the film in its entirety. Gradually, "The Others" became interesting, and eventually, the truth behind the plot was revealed for a surprise twist. Viewers will probably contrast this film to "The Sixth Sense", which would be a fair comparison, since each has a peculiar point of view. The only thing that I will say is that I thought "The Sixth Sense" was a much leaner film. Even when I finished watching "The Others", it seemed to me that there were too many extra elements that didn't really contribute to the story's eventual resolution (i.e. the old woman in the child's first communion dress - What was that about?) Is this a film that I would recommend? Yes.
Is this a film that I would want to see more than once? Probably not.
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Summary: A Superb Musical Score!
Review: An hauntingly beautiful score to a motion picture which employs a unique approach of the occult.I feel the Musical pieces are very well orchestrated and many of the films more intense scenes are well enhanced by Mr Amenabar's Musical Score.To Fans of Film music I do recommend this one!
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