Chilling suspense

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2002)

This movie totally puts the chills in you, with the atmosphere that the director instills, Nicole Kidman's characterization of a mother that thinks she is losing her mind because things are not making sense, and the newly arrived housekeepers in which we don't know if they are plotting something.
There is none of those big scares like those horror movies. Most of it are indirect or off-screen, resulting in something that is more of the bone chilling type of scare.
I don't think every piece of the puzzle connects at the end, but nobody is trying to follow some rule here like the way they were trying to in The Sixth Sense, which by openly defining what one could and could not do, and following that rule on the screen does not mean the character could function as if they are normal and not detect their state.
All in all, a very good movie if you want to get the chills. Don't know how it will be on second viewing since I haven't done that yet.