The Others (Collectors Edition, 2 DVDs) Reviews

The Others" is an instant classic. Trite, I know, but that's how I feel about this movie. The acting is top notch, the cinematography is outstanding, and, best of all for these days of inane scripts such as "American Pie 2" and "Jurassic Park" the writing is sensational. Intelligent. Believable. The ...  Read the complete review

This movie was brilliant. The script writers definately diserve a pat on the back. The plot was fantastic and this movie was totally unpredictable in a Sixth Sense stylee. I will definately buy this but im not sure if it will be as good the second time round. The movie is about a mother who lives in a mansion with her two children who cannot ...  Read the complete review

In the beginning of the movie I really did not know what to expect of the film. Since the last film I saw starring Nicole Kidmann was Moulin Rouge and before that Eyes Wide Shut, I was thinking this would be along those lines and I would be thoroughly disapointed again. She always seemed to light up the screen, but the plots didn't move me or ...  Read the complete review

Fantastic film! If you like your movies fast and mind-numbing with lots of special effects then give this a wide berth, but if you like to get involved in a plot and characters then this one is strongly recommended. We rented this last night and it scared the willies out of us! It is a proper, good old fashioned ghost story, with ...  Read the complete review

The Others isn't your typical ghost story; there isn't the quantity of jump-out-of-your-seat thrills you'd expect to find in a major film like this. But these days whats new to surprise us?In fact, The Others is virtually chill-free for the first hour. But what The Others lacks in quantity, it makes up in quality. Instead of a roller ...  Read the complete review

The Others?? is a suspenseful horror film unlike many these days. Most are concerned with blood and gore, teenage girls getting naked, body count, and not scary. ??The Others?? is atmospheric, spooky, bloodless, and carried by strong acting and fleshed out characters. Yet, it takes too long to make an impact and the final payoff is not as shocking ...  Read the complete review

eerie and artistically sexy flim - Advantages: eerie scenes and sexy architecture, delicious child actors (no, i've not eaten them), made me wonder if we're ALL in some illusive atferlife pergatory, hmm? - Disadvantages: somewhat predictable ending

The others! That’s what I wished I had hired from Blockbusters Monday night! Yay, though I walk through the valley of death…………… As a scary movieholic, I eagerly await any video that has the word “Boo,” transcribed into her back box movie writ up, with the exception of scary ...  Read the complete review

My fiancé rented ‘The Others’ for us to watch on video last night; I have to say that, at first, I was a little cross as I’m not a great one for spooky films, but I agreed to give it a go! Running Time: 104 minutes Rating: 12 Genre: Thriller The Cast & Characters: The film is ...  Read the complete review

I was looking forward to seeing The Others ever since it was released in the cinema. I didn’t see it in the cinema though, and caught it on video yesterday afternoon when I had a couple of hours spare. I’ve been excited about this film, I had heard a lot about this film, but I was sadly slightly disappointed. It wasn’t what I ...  Read the complete review

The "twist" ending has been done before and much better in "The Sixth Sense". But, Eric Sykes! - Advantages: Nicole Kidman, Eric Sykes!, Yes, really Eric Sykes! - Disadvantages: Slow, Low fright ratio, Poor "twist" ending

Nicole Kidman plays Grace, she lives in a desolate house in Jersey and her husband has gone off to war and not returned. Also to make things worse she has two children who have a disease which means that if they come into contact with light they get severly burnt and can die. Therefore the house has to be kept dark and all the doors have to be ...  Read the complete review

The Others is a bleak, dark, claustraphobic, haunted trip into the life of a tortured family circa 1945. The story focuses on the family in question. The mother, Grace, is an assumed war widow with the burden of raising two small children on her own. Making the effort even more difficult is the fact that these children are not able to ...  Read the complete review

Though I am generally not a fan of horror flicks The Others is something truly unique. Set in a mannor house in Jersey during WW2 Kidman is confined to the house with her photosensitive children (they're allergic to daylight and strong light)so the house is kept in darkness. When new servants start work at the house the air of the film goes ...  Read the complete review

Movies with a 'twist' ending have come into vogue in recent years, largely thanks to the great success of THE SIXTH SENSE. When these twists are done well, such as in that movie and also in UNBREAKABLE, they can leave the audience gasping, desperate to watch the film again (and again) in order to pick up clues which they had missed the ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

The Others, I had seen the title of the film and very little else, this was not an over-hyped film and I really didn’t know what to expect from it. A truly brilliant creepy thriller/horror movie with no blood whatsoever, “It can’t be done I hear you cry”, nope it can’t seemingly. It really failed to have me on the ...  Read the complete review

This film blew me away. I wasn't expecting much, which might be why it hit me so directly. I'd heard comparisons to The Haunting, a bad film if ever I've seen one - and yes, I can see why. Old haunted house being the setting of the film pretty much throughout and yes the film is a ghost story, which is about all I knew about the film ...  Read the complete review

'The Others' is a creepy traditional kind of ghost story set in an old, grand, isolated house in Jersey which is dark, shadowy and permanently engulfed in a layer of fog. You almost expect the door to be opened by an ancient, bent double butler. The year is 1945 and the war has just finished. Grace (Nicole Kidman) lives in ...  Read the complete review

The Others is a rare breed, a contemporary horror which is actually chilling. It is set in a large, rambling manor house in Jersey at the end of the second world war. Nicole Kidman plays a young mother, caring for her two children while waiting for her husband to return from the war. The children are brought up in a strict environment, ...  Read the complete review