**spoilers inside**

Rating: Null/10 (15 June 2004)

I really liked this movie... that is...I enjoyed it, for the type of Gothic horror/thriller film that it is...
Like something that V.C. Andrews would write...
Nicole Kidman plays a devoutly catholic, neurotic, troubled mother of two frightened photosensitive children. When three visitors arrive, to apply for the jobs she's offering (nanny, housekeeper, and gardener) strange things seem to happen...
I was perceiving Mrs. Mills and her two cohorts as the villains, when in truth...they were there to help... they knew the truth before I, as a viewer did... I actually had to review to notice what a spectacular performance Fionnula Flanagan (Mrs. Mills)was giving us...
the Empathy she had for Grace (Kidman) and her two children... THe secret she was hiding...
Kidman is frantic, throughout the film...suspicious of the "intruders"...suspicious, that their house is being haunted by these intruders... In truth, it is kidman and her children that are doing the haunting...
Leaving the viewers with a bittersweet empathy for the souls of Grace and her children...