Kinda scare... No, this movie creeped me out!

Rating: 9/10 (8 December 2005)

Who on earth is Alejandro Amena'bar? A distant Spanish relative of M.Knight's? Anyway you slice it, this guy can make one creepy movie. I'll admit, I'm a sucker for ghost stories, but good ones are few and far between. The Other's, is a period piece set in world war one England, filmed in a very quiet, dark setting with more bumps in the night then you can shake a creepy kid at. Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman)is a soldier's wife, taking care of their tranquil castle and even more tranquil kids, while hubby is off at war. Add a creepy group of servants and what you have is some spooky (Good Lord, don't go in there) kind of fun. One of the best features that I learned about the film after viewing it a few times is that almost all the dialog is spoken very soft, a whisper in some scenes, this forces you to turn up the volume, and in turn, when something scary happens (see where I'm going with this?), your t.v. is cranked and jump straight out of your chair (cool stuff). I certainly hope that Amena'bar does another English film, because I was never very good in Spanish class.