THE OTHERS REVIEW

Rating: 8/10 (23 October 2018)

ARE THERE REALLY "OTHERS"?
For most people classic creepy movies will always be the best ones. Movies like "The sixth sense", "The others", "Meet Joe Black" and "When a stranger calls" are some of the unforgettable horror, thriller and drama movies of all time. More fascinating than the great scenery of second world war (1945) is Nicole Kidman's performance as Grace, the main character of "The others", a thriller movie premiered in 2001.
Grace is a devout, determined and protective woman who lives in a huge mansion in Jersey, the Channel Islands, who is waiting her husband Charles (Christopher Eccleston) return from the war. She's the mother of two children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), who suffer from a terrible disease against sun light, what makes the house always seem dark, mysterious and scary. Grace also has some weird rules in the house. Another door can't be open before the previous one is locked.
The story really begins when some new candidates appear out of the blue, even without Grace requesting them, to substitute the employees who had disappeared. The new employees, Mrs. Mills (Fionnula Flanagan), Mr. Tuttle (Eric Sykes) and a speechless young woman called Lydia (Elaine Cassidy) seem to know the house very well and have a bunch of secrets.
While the movie runs, Anne starts talking to a boy called Victor and his family. She tells her mother, but she doesn't believe in her daughter. After a few times, when she listens the piano playing, even though it's locked, she starts believing there's someone else between those 50 rooms.
Besides, when Grace is looking after the invaders she finds a book with pictures of all families that had lived in that house before. That's the time all parts of the movie are connected and it goes to the supernatural world. Most characters also talk about "the day Grace got crazy", which makes us watch it until the end and it has an unexpected ending.
The Australian actress (Nicole Kidman) is the only well-known actor in the cast, but as well the movie is amazing. The Chilean-Spanish director, Alejandro Amenámer, in just 105 minutes, really made a mixture and a great relation between the living and the dead world, also reaffirming the real power of the connection between the members of a family. This is an astounding movie for the ones who likes supernatural stories and a little fright.