genuinely unsettling and scary

Rating: 8/10 (9 November 2001)

A beautifully-paced, slow-burner of ghost story, which is genuinely disturbing. And Nicole Kidman shows she can actually act.
I suppose for most of us these days gorged on a diet of gory, in your face horror films we're unused to this throw back to early mood pictures like The Haunting. Everything is suggested rather than seen, understated rather that overstated - just the way is should be, and the basis of real terror.
Possible spoiler:
Did anyone else feel that The Others gives a reverential nod to the William Castle film "The House on Haunted Hill" when the scary old lady appears?