Scary and inspiring, with Nicole Kidman at her best

Rating: 9/10 (24 September 2005)

Alejandro Amenabar serves up a deliciously spooky ghost story with "The Others", an original and haunting tale about an English woman and her two children in a remote, dark mansion during World War II. Grace (Kidman in a superb performance) and her creepy children, who are sensitive to sunlight, have to stay inside. When her daughter Anne (Alakina Mann, who holds her own strongly, playing off Kidman well) starts telling her she can see "intruders" in the house, Grace disregards it until she begins having terrifying experiences of her own. After the arrival of mysterious "servants", who aid Grace in her paranoia, it becomes clear that something is very wrong within the walls of her home, and she must take matters into her own hands or something far worse could come of it. Shot in the dark and played well by all, "The Others" is a treat of a scary movie.