The Others Ending Revisited: Just As Shocking As You Remember

It’s the shock of seeing Norman Bates, clad in his mother’s clothes, grinning maniacally in the swinging lamplight. It’s the realization that Kevin Spacey spun us a bunch of lies, and was actually Keyser Söze the whole time. It’s finally connecting “I see dead people” with Bruce Willis being shot at the beginning of The Sixth Sense. When movies pull the rug from under us, it’s one of the greatest thrills that cinema can provide.
Today we will be talking about the ending of 2001's The Others. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar, the atmospheric film follows the Stewart family-Roman Catholic Grace (Nicole Kidman) and her children (Alakina Mann and James Bradley)-as they slowly but surely realize their home is haunted. But when Grace and her children stumble upon a séance in the attic, they suddenly realize they're the ones who have, inadvertently, been doing the haunting. As the memories come flooding back, Grace remembers that she offed her children after temporarily going insane. After realizing what she'd done, Grace offed herself, dooming her family to an eternity inside their creaky mansion.