The Others

Sooner or later they will find you
Sooner or later they will find you
THE OTHERS (15)
D: Alejandro Amenábar
Buena Vista/Miramax/Escorpion (Fernando Bovaira, Jose Luis Cuerda & Summin Park)
US/Spain 2001
104 mins

Horror

W: Alejandro Amenábar 
DP: Javier Aguirresarobe 
Ed: Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Mus: Alejandro Amenábar 
PD: Benjamin Fernandez
Cos: Sonia Grande

Nicole Kidman (Grace Stewart), Christopher Eccleston (Charles Stewart), Fionnula Flanagan (Bertha Mills), Elaine Cassidy (Lydia), Eric Sykes (Edmund Tuttle), Alakina Mann(Anne Stewart), James Bentley (Nicholas Stewart)

A refreshingly original, stylish and intelligent horror movie from the mind of Spanish writer-director Alejandro Amenábar.

Set during the late-1940's, a widowed mother of two young children who are allergic to sunlight experiences strange events in their rural country house, as the children claim they can see otherworldly spirits and other paranormal phenomena.

The film gets great strength from its dark and chilling style as well as brilliant performances from Nicole Kidman & the juvenile actors, who convince us of ghostly-goings on in the absense of actual on-screen poltergeists.

8/10

Nicole Kidman in The Others
Nicole Kidman in The Others