Creepy, sometimes thrilling, and a good performance wedged in

Rating: 7/10 (15 August 2001)

The Others (originally titled The Darkness when I saw it 3 months ago in a private screening) tells the story of a widow, Nicole Kidman plays her with scritness and is actually fitted well for it, and her children. Now these kids aren't like other ones, as they have to stay in the dark all the time, or else something bad will happen to them. Things seem OK, and they're are new housekeepers hired, but then things of a supernatural nature begin to occur.
The film is in the bloodline of such films as The Sixth Sense and on that level I can say this movie is fairly decent enough. It gives fine scares here and there and it has a really crackerjack ending that will have some people talking, but in the end of the movie, do we care about the lot of the characters? Director Amenabar gives good detail to the period and to the shocks, but the plot could've used some work. B+