Suspenseful. The ending wasn't tough to guess but fun to watch

Rating: 9/10 (4 September 2001)

`The Others' embodies all there is that makes the suspense' genre so popular. The isolated mansion, the fragile woman alone, the sinister servants who know more than they can or will tell and the darkness inevitably combine in unworldly ways.
All of these elements are used superbly by the director to create a movie that is scary with out being bloody. No bodies hang from trees and no skulls fall from the closet shelf. Yet something is wrong, very wrong. It might be the voices that the daughter of the house hears or pretends to hear. It might be in the new servants who conveniently showed up shortly after the prior employees vanished without giving notice. It might be that there really are intruders in the house, people long dead with issues unresolved. To the lady of the manor the one unthinkable option is that the isolation and strain could be wearing her down and causing her mind to play tricks on her.