The Others (2001)

Love this movie!

I saw it in the theater when it came out and it was legit scary. Her work here is way better than anything her fake nose did in that overrated pos The Hours.

Agreed - this was a fantastic movie. Very atmospheric, good acting, and a plot that actually took the subject of hauntings seriously.

Fabulous movie. Nicole Kidman's acting is great and she has never looked better (or at least not since, anyway).

I wouldn't say it's underrated but definitely under-seen. Critical assessments were overwhelmingly positive but there wasn't much of an an audience. Pity, because it's a great movie with wonderful performances.

Is there a thread I’ve created since you joined around 2019 that you haven’t saved? This is creepy.

R6 what?!

R5, The Others was a box office hit. What are you talking about?

But I AM your daughter!

The kids in this movie are such DL-ers.

I love this movie so much, but it had the bad misfortune of following the Sixth Sense (don’t want to reveal spoilers but if you know, you know), and Nicole Kidman’s work was overshadowed by Moulin Rouge.

I think it’s Kidman’s most dynamic role. She is so frosty and terrifying. Like a Hitchcock blonde.

Nicole should do more creepy movies like this, because her face is scary as fuck.

R11, I think we all know about The Sixth Sense by now.

Plus, it was so fucking obvious anyway.

R11 thanks for ruining the ending, asshole!

I always found it a pretty idea how Kidman's character is given a second chance after committing filicide, and how they in essence accept their purgatory-like state of existence, alongside the long-gone servants. Also, note that Kidman's character gives up her religious fanaticism after this discovery.

The Sixth Sense meets Turn of the Screw. Good movie!

In case anyone has not figured it out, Nicole & the kids are DEAD in the movie but don’t know it! Is that clear? They’re DEAD!

R17 What is death, anyway?

Also, in a fate worse than death, bloody Keith Allen buys their house!

I was hoping for a bigger surprise ending. I picked up on that almost immediately that they were all dead when I started watching this.

This was one that my siblings and I would regularly rent from Blockbuster.

Love it. Spooky and no vulgaratia.

I found the husband coming to visit very poignant but he had to go back to his own purgatory on the battlefield.

I love this movie. It spooked the shit out of me as a little kid.

I rewatched this a few weeks ago. Hadn’t seen it since it came out, and it holds up. Nicole should have been nominated for this instead of The Hours. (But Julianne should have won that year for Far From Heaven)

And who was trying to suggest this was a flop? It made over 210 million worldwide, on a 17 million budget.

That was NK’s best look. I love her hair.

This movie would have been shelved with anyone else. Nicole’s splotchy loooong fingers and weird thumbses fumbling with keys and Chatelaine saved the movie.

Great movie s, both scary and said. My favourite Kidman performance, anyone who says she isn’t a good actress should watch it.

I love DL movie threads. Kidman would have been great as a Hitchcock blonde. She's fantastic here.

I do have to say, I saw this in Atlanta, seated behind teenage girls who loudly and frequently declared how much they would NOT put up with Kidman's shit if they were members of the staff. Sigh. I didn't dare say a word, but INTERNALLY I was slapping them. Vigorously.

Christopher Eccleston is sad, lonely, and creepy as hell. He knew he was dead. She did not.

Great atmosphere.

Agree, the movie was really well done and also I think this was the last time we ever saw Nicole's original face.

This is the only move I've ever seen Nicole Kidman in. Well that and The Stepford Wives .

For those wondering what disease affects the children in the movie, it's called xeroderma pigmentosum.

Children with XP have a defective repair mechanism of their DNA which quickly turns their skin into a giant forest fire of cancerous wounds the first few times they are exposed to sunlight. I suggest you do not google image it, because watching burned skin is never for the faint of heart, esp. in young children. Because I had had the care of children with XP and was aware of how horribly it ends when I saw the movie I got almost as hysterical as Nicole's character in each scene where she discovers that her children are exposed to broad daylight. Been there, done that. My then boyfriend knew this and suggested that we leave the theater if it was too much for me but I white-knuckled it in the end: they were already dead it turned out.

Why isn't this movie available on any of the major streamers? I remember wanting to watch it around Halloween last year. It is a fantastic movie.

This is the kind of film I'd like to rewatch. Glad to hear it held up.

I agree that this is Kidman at her peak.

It’s what Louis Virtel suffers from.

Y’know, for me, I don’t think it matters who wins an Oscar, as much as giving an “Oscar-worthy” performance. And this is definitely an Oscar-worthy performance.

The Others and Moulin Rouge are kind of peak Nicole. (Plus we know she was getting that prime Ewan dick.)

I like this movie too; It's part of the Criterion collection so it's not widely available at Halloween through other streaming services.

Aside from just the gray, creepiness of it all (this is one of those movies that makes you cold just watching it), the Kidman character is such a contradiction: so strident and outwardly sure of everything while so lonely, conflicted and clearly at the end of her rope. The speech she gives to the husband about why he left her - not because of the war but because he wanted out of their life together and that she was never enough - that was really moving.

I could be wrong, but I think this is the last movie Cruise & Kidman made together (he was the producer) and one of her best performances.

Yes, that’s right, R37. Cruise remade Alejandro Amenabar’s Open Your Eyes as Vanilla Sky, and Amenabar wrote and directed The Others with Kidman. I think she got the better deal.

I was always interested in horror films and saw this in the theater when I was 11 years old. I’ve always loved it but revisiting it as an adult, I really do think it is a gothic masterpiece. Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan are both excellent in it. It is easily in my top 10 best horror films of the century thus far.