Pant-wettingly scary!!

Rating: 9/10 (15 April 2002)

I am a wuss, I am the first person to admit it. The Supernatural terrifies me. I even have to watch "Buffy" from behind a cushion. However, I was lulled into a false sense of security by the fact that this film was only rated a 12.
'Huh', I thought, 'How scary can this film be?' Ever use the expression "Famous last words"? Well, mine will go down in infamy.
"The Others" certainly gives proof to the fact that a film does not have to contain sharp weapons of any description, heavy breathing, or copious amounts of blood to scare the wits out of a person. This film definitely played on your subconscious, rather than conscious state of mind. But it was more than that...after all "The Blair Witch Project" was said to do the same, and to compare the two would not be dissimilar to a comparison made between double oscar winning Tom Hanks, and Tom "Well, I played the back-end of a horse in my high school pantomime" Joe Public. I can safely say that alongside "Scary Movie", "The Blair Witch Project" has got to be one of the most overrated, tedious pile of crap I have ever had to waste 2 hours of my life watching.
"The Others" is in an entirely different class. Atmospheric, tense, and very very scary. One of only two films I have embarrassed myself by screaming at in the cinema, (The other is "What Lies Beneath", by the way) the twist at the end even surpasses the climax of "The Sixth Sense".