The Others (2 Disc Collectors Edition) [DVD]

Availability: No one listing

I own this item and I would like to:

Release Date:	23/09/2002
List Price:	£17.99
Director:	Alejandro Amenábar
Starring:	Alakina Mann, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, James Bentley, Nicole Kidman
Technical Details:	PAL Widescreen
Running Time:	104 minutes
Certificate:	12
Region:	2
Main Language:	English
Subtitles:	English
Studio:	Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Number Of Disks:	2

Review

A welcome throwback to the spooky traditions of Jack Clayton's The Innocents and Robert Wise's The Haunting, Alejandro Amenábar's The Others favours atmosphere, sound, and suggestion over flashy special effects. Set in 1945 on a fog-enshrouded island off the British coast, the film begins with a scream as Grace (Nicole Kidman) awakens from some unspoken horror, perhaps arising from her religiously overprotective concern for her young children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley). The children are hypersensitive to light and have lived in a musty manor with curtains and shutters perpetually drawn. With Grace's husband (Christopher Eccleston) presumably lost at war, this ominous setting perfectly accommodates a sense of dreaded expectation, escalating when three strangers arrive in response to Grace's yet-unposted request for domestic help. Led by housekeeper Mrs Mills (Fionnula Flanagan), this mysterious trio is as closely tied to the house's history as Grace's family is--as are the past occupants seen posthumously in a long-forgotten photo album. With her justly acclaimed performance, Kidman maintains an emotional intensity that fuels the film's supernatural underpinnings. And while Amenábar's pacing is deliberately slow, it befits the tone of penetrating anxiety, leading to a twist that extends the story's reach from beyond the grave. Amenábar unveiled a similarly effective twist in his Spanish thriller Open Your Eyes (remade by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky), but where that film drew debate, The Others is finely crafted to provoke well-earned goose bumps and chills down the spine. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Watched this DVD? Add a review or comment about it

Do you have a comment about this item ? Log in to add your comment


You may also like these products:


The Village [DVD]	Signs [DTS] [DVD]	Haunting, The [DVD]	The Sixth Sense - 2 Disc Collector's Edition [DVD]	What Lies Beneath - Dvd
From 619 points	From 349 points	From 489 points	From 429 points	From 369 points