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Summary: BEST MOVIE OF 2001
Review: The Others was the best movie I've seen in a long time. It really shouldn't be compared to The Sixth Sense, however. This movie was written and directed with such style and detail. What they did was they took a typical haunting story and changed it around; to let us see what the other side experiences. Here we have three different groups. Each three have the same goal in common, to acquire the house. The house is everyone's purpose. In the end, their purpose comes together to reveal all. Everything comes together so neatly. All actors in this movies were fantastic; they played their role well. Even the little girl was a treat to watch. This is one of those kinds of movies that is scary yet not scary, more suspenseful than anything else. there is no killing or blood, or any of that sort of junk we see in so called horror movies nowadays. See this movie; you will not be dissapointed. And if you appreciate movies and how movies are created, you will definitely fall in love with the style of this movie and the directing.
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Summary: Great for any horror show fans
Review: One of the best movies I've seen on the same year it was released. Great supsense and a bit freaky, if you like the "The Sixth Sense" you'll enjoy this one.
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Summary: First Rate Ghost Story
Review: THE OTHERS is one of those old-fashioned spook-fests that are rarely made in an age of blood-and-guts horror filmmaking. The story centers around a young woman(Nicole Kidman)who lives with her two children in an old house off the British coast, while her husband is away fighting in the war. Enter three mysterious strangers, who get themselves hired on as the woman's cleaning staff. That's when the shenanigans begin. Nicole Kidman turns in her best work since TO DIE FOR, far stronger and more subtle than that overbloated MOULIN ROUGE mess--this should have been the film to get her the Oscar nod. Fionnula Flanagan, as the spooky housekeeper, equals Kidman in the brilliance department, and the two young actors playing her children are first-rate as well. All in all, one of the more memorable films released in 2001.
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Summary: excellent, well written and acted movie
Review: I am not a big Nicole Kidman fan, but she was wonderful in this movie. In my opinion it wasn't really marketed properly...it wasn't really all that similar to the Sixth Sense. It was a great story, full of twists.
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Summary: So much suspense, I swallowed my popcorn!
Review: If you like "trick endings" to movies you'll love this one.
It isn't super scary, but it is super suspenceful and you will [dirty] yourself when you see the ending.
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Summary: A Great Surprise!
Review: When I first heard about this movie, I thought it was just cashing in on the recent haunted house movies and "The Sixth Sense". So, I figured it would probably be cheesy or predictable... gladly, I was proven wrong. Although it moved slow at first, the movie's peculiarities made me keep watching. It just got better from there. Well executed, not predictable at all, this is a movie I will buy just to share it with my friends and family. Also, I felt Nichole Kidman's role in the movie really complimented her.
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Summary: If you have trouble sleeping, watch this one !
Review: Not even the sound effects could keep me awake.
I watched this movie with loud dolby digital sound and honoustly I fell asleep. The script is absolutely boring.
Certainly not the top performance of Nicole.
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Summary: classic ghost story
Review: This film proves you do not need special effects to scare people. As Hitchcock once said it is not the bomb going off that scares people, it's the waiting. I watched it at 3 in the morning on my own and I had to grab my cat for comfort. I'll watch it again.
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Summary: Fear Comes From Inside: Really Scary Film with Stylish Touch
Review: Yesterday, on April 28, we have finally seen the theatrical release of this masterpiece in Japan, and the waiting time was very, very long. But it was worth of our patience. "The Others" is not only a chilling and scary movie; it is crafted with style and intelligence, and it is fantastic to watch the director (who is still below the age of 30!!) create this piece of art. As you probably have known by now, beautiful Nicole Kidman plays Grace, whose children are allergic to light (and this disaease really exists, you should know). With ritual-like meticulous rules, she manages her household works, employing new servants in a huge, dreary countryhouse, which ever-hanging fogs mystriously surround. But there is (or are), she comes to know, some intruder(s) here, of which existence her children are convinced. And sooner or later, Grace comes to feel that, too. It is a natural but unfair comparison if you point out that "The Others" resembles at some places a certain Oscar-nominated film, because the director Amenabar does it with completely different touch. I cannot tell you much, but let me say, like Hitchcock's classic "Rebecca," the heroine (and the audience) is lured inexplicably into the mystery of the old house and its past. Also using the classic frameworks of ghost stories used in the original "Haunting" (Robert Wise version, NOT THAT remake), the film makes us jumping in the seats, sending lots of chill in spine, and, moreover, it treats a universal subject of love between mother and children in a subtle fashion. On top of that, the film goes further, to make the mother Grace not exactly an ideal one for kids, and it succeeds eventually in depicting the fraility of humans -- in short, you really don't know what you think you know. Anchored by strong and believable acting given from underrated Nicole Kidman (why did Oscar ignore her work here, preferring that musical ... well, but all right, I understand), and aided effectively by other well-cast players whose uncanny presence unnerve us greatly, "The Others" will rivet your eyes on the screen, especially when you are a connoisseur of old-fashioned horror film. Keep your eyes open when you see the details of the film: furniture, photoes, everything. Something is wrong with this house, but how and what is not clear. This bizzare sensation is another asset of the film, and you will find what you missed with repeated viewing. For those who have enjoyed this (and I bet you did), the story is perhaps inspired by Henry James's novella "Turn of the Screw," which deals with the similar situation. You may as well read that equally well-crafted, creepy story. Trivia: look closely at one of the old photoes of the dead: one of the three men on the bed is director Amenabar himself (and one of the others is Mateo Gil, director of Spanish film "Nadie conoce a nadie" of which music Amenabar composed, and of which star Eduardo Noriega was featured in the two previous Amenabar film in Spain, "Thesis" and "Open Your Eyes." The former one is a must-see for anyone loving blood-curdling thriller. But hey, appearing in a photo? This is exactly what Hitchcock did in one of his earlier films about a life-boat, another masterpiece about the people in a confined place !! Surely Amenabar loves his master.
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Summary: Highly original
Review: Often touted as a horror movie 'The Others' is actually a gently creeping period piece. Set in 1945 on the island of Jersey, Grace (Kidman) and her two children live by themselves in a lonely house surrounded by fog and bad weather. After all the servants suddenly leave in the night Grace hires three new ones, informing them that the windows and doors must always be closed to protect the two children, both of whom are allergic to daylight. Things begin to unravel as one of the children claims to see a little boy and his family and mysterious things start happening around the house. What makes this movie particularly special is the fact that it sets its audience on edge rather than outright scares them. A claustrophobic atmosphere is built up as the characters are all literally kept behind closed doors and the dingy photography depicts the monotonous life that the family lead. However, it is Kidman that really holds it together. Giving a blistering performance of a woman on the edge of insanity, desperate to retain her decorum whilst the absence of her husband gnaws at her. Definitely very different to her role as a courtesan in 'Moulin Rouge', this shows what breadth the actress has, which anyone who has watched 'To Die For' will know. Thankfully the rest of the cast are very good indeed, especially the two children. The feeling of mystery and locked-away feelings is evoked well as we're given pieces of the puzzle gradually throughout the film. Furthermore, 'The Others' has created a whole new genre in its reliance of flesh-crawling creepiness rather than gratuitous gore. It certainly makes a refreshing change and is all the better for having an actress of Kidman's calibre on board.
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