Let me tell you, 21 years ago when I went to see this in the theater, when the old woman opens the closet in the end, the WHOLE audience screamed from terror. Magic.
I think it was the first pg-13 movie I got to go see with my sister hahaha that part happened and she literally screamed "OH SHITTT"!! then we were just trying to quietly laugh for like 10 minutes after. This movie's really dumb now though IMO.
One of the scariest things in this movie is the idea that your trauma can follow you to the afterlife. She wonders out into the fog and finds her lost husband. She pulls his spirit home with her and with his kids but he's trapped in the mind that he died in.
And how the kids have breathing problems, and the mother has migraines/headaches cause she blew her own her head off. The idea of how you die continuing to affect you is terrifying.
@@b-six-twelve I think she was unstable because she was stuck in a house of literal darkness with two special-needs children, while her husband was missing. I think that would have driven anyone mad. But now that she understands and has come to terms with what happened, their new reality, and the kids don't have their disorder to deal with anymore, she would hopefully be better. A not-so-fun fact: this condition is real, albeit rare, it's called Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP for short). It's a genetic -- people who have it don't have a very long life expectancy, something like 37 years (they tend to develop cancers). So it's likely that Anne and Nicholas would have died pretty young anyway.
A cool little detail is how the opening scream is most likely the mom 'waking up' from her murder/suicide. Also, the three servants were definitely there when the family was alive, and may have even 'sensed' them. Hence why they seem to quickly catch on to the family dynamics, they've sort of 'known' them before they even met them.
Just rewatched it for Halloween. It holds up so incredibly well and I couldn't find a thing out of place. When knowing the ending, it's still great to rewatch because you can see how well everything adds up. It's one of those films where even if you can guess the ending, it's so fitting and impactful you still have a visceral reaction to it. And while it has so few characters and locations, it's packed with commentary on grief, religion, war, trauma etc... I'd give it a 10 also.
Agree 100%. Nicole's performance puts you on edge from the very beginning, and she has a knack of portraying characters with a harsh edge without being unsympathetic.
The Others is one of my favorite movies of all time. To me, the twist ending is just the icing on the cake. The acting, the minimalist setting, the gorgeous music and cinematography, the movement of the camera - it never gets old for me. It is a weird shame, though, that this movie seems to have fallen through the cracks. As of now, it doesn't seem to be available on ANY streaming service.
That probably had a lot to do with it coming out after "The Sixth Sense", its popularity led to a lot of copycat movies, "familiarity breeds contempt", maybe people were over the formula. This to me is the superior of the two.
@WastedPo - Agreed, much credit and praise for Alejandro Amenábar: the writer, director and composer for this haunting modern classic. The soundtrack is wonderfully evocative.
I saw this in the theater and I remember the whole audience realized the twist at the same time. It reminds me of why I like seeing films in the theater. It immerses you into the story. I also remember coming home and finding out Aaliyah had died in a plane crash.
This movie always freaked me out more than most because I think the existence depicted in it is how it really is for ghosts. They're just carrying on and living as normal while stuck between worlds. And are at varying stages of acceptance and knowledge of their death. Also I think the husband was killed in the war and visiting her from heaven. Or was just allowed to ascend from the purgatory that the mom and her children had to remain in. This is why he eventually left. Not that she simply had a dream about him.
The fascinating thing is that this came out after The Sixth Sense, when "ghost twist" horror films were already known, but it somehow is still nearly impossible to guess the ending. The screenplay is almost perfect.
I rarely try to figure out twists or predict endings when watching films, but when I first saw this in the theaters I realized what was going on when the door slams in her face. The locking of the door sounded so frantic. It probably helped that The 6th Sense was still in recent memory when this came out!
I love this movie and never get bored of re-watching it. The score, the atmosphere, the acting, the calm voices, it's brilliant. I was gobsmacked first time- I'd completely forgotten about the gunshot at the beginning. The fog keeps them from leaving.
One of my favorite films. Actually, Nicole's ex-hubby, Tom Cruise, was a producer on this. Her acting was incredible. But she was in two movies that year and they put her up for Oscar consideration on the other film. She deserved an Oscar for this. IMO.
@@Markyajv Luke Evans the actor that played Gaston? I've only heard her sing in Moulin Rouge, the theme song for one of the recent shows she starred in, and I think she might have had something on Big Little Lies?
@@ct6852 Yes, they were in 9 perfect strangers and he found out that she loved to sing. One night they were at a dinner party and he said she asked him to sing with her while her husband played. When he was making his new album he wanted to cover this song and the only person he knew could do it was Nicole. So he asked her. Here's a link. ruclips.net/video/z3FUIiBMQb0/видео.html
The small details like the migraines due to her shoot herself in the head, the slow burn to the twist at the end was all so really well done.The dad was in limbo imo and the fog was used to represent that. And will Shaun finally grow out his beard? 😊
The twist in this movie has to be one of the best I've ever seen. Not even once did I consider it. My jaw hit the floor. But now when I watch the movie again, I can see little hints that reveal the truth. Very good movie and great performance by Nicole Kidman.
I have watched the Others many times and even though I know the ending, I still love the slow reveal. That's what makes films that much more intriguing and interesting. This film never drags during its watch but it keeps you invested until the end. Definitely one of Nicole Kidman's BEST performances.
Sean predicting the "worst case scenarios" over and over had me laughing. This movie is so good! I remember being completely shocked at the ending! Gave me chills!
The Others is one of my favorite paranormal movies. I was 12 when I saw this in theaters with my mom and we were both surprised with the twist. I always took it that Kidmans character was feeling isolated with not being able to go anywhere because of her children condition and with not getting news of her husband for months if not at least a year and either the servants leaving and her truly being alone with just her children or her feeling trapped and did what she did and the servants left after. Idk
I love this movie…and yet, somehow I never realized the guy who played the husband was the guy from “Shallow Grave” and “28 Days Later”. The old lady appearing at the wardrobe door was one of the biggest jump scares I’ve ever had watching a movie. Everybody at the theatre jumped/screamed. And, I was constantly going back and forth over whether or not she and her kids were dead. But by the reveal, I had convinced myself they weren’t…so I was shocked to see the seance and thought it was such a cool scene.
I saw it in theaters when it was released, i was 17. Didn' t see that twist coming! And, by then, i had seen The Sixth Sense and similar films. There was a general gasp in the movie theater by the end. Watching it at that time, pre-Internet craze, was such a great experience to have. The movie has this old school, vintage quality to it. And Nicole Kidman was amazing in it.
I remember seeing this when it first came out. I was 12 and the twist was one of the most shocking and unexpected things I’d ever experienced. I did not see it coming! I made so many of my friends watch this with me after that, just to see their reaction when the twist was revealed! So good!
One of my favorite horror films. Never fails to fill you with dread, no matter how many times you've seen it. Since you mentioned that this would be great as a stage play, I think that if you're near enough to London you two should get tickets to go see the play of "The Woman in Black" (based on the novel) which has been running since 1989, the 2nd-longest running play in London. It's utterly terrifying. Afterwards, come back and do a reaction of the film version with Daniel Radcliff (also very well done).
I'm so excited! This movie tends to get forgotten by so many movie reactors, but I'm so happy my first time seeing a reactor watch this is you two! You're both some of my favorites on this site. I'm about to watch the video and I hope you guys love this movie as much as I do. I watched it so many times as a child.
I only saw the twist coming because The Sixth Sense was so fresh in my mind and this was similar, but with the added element that who we thought were the ghosts are actually the living. I think it was the scene when the door is moving back and forth and a germ of a thought entered my head that asked what it would look like from the “ghost” perspective and realized that it could be people who are equally freaked out as Nicole Kidman that a door is moving by itself. From then on I saw the clues and realized what was going on from there.
I remember the film for the first time on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) 5-6 years ago, during The 31 Days Of Halloween, and the twist ending was one of the craziest and most shocking in horror film history!
Honestly, one of my favorite horror films of all time. If you could even consider it a horror. It’s depressing pretty much the entire time. Just a really good haunted house story. Atmosphere is incredible too.
@@Arturo.H.M A mother murdering her children and blowing her own brains out is horrific. For those children to join that mother in haunting their former home and being troubled by "others", i.e. the living, is disturbing. Can it be described as a horror? It's a matter of definition perhaps.
Modern horror movie masterpiece! Gore and blood is not horror, as my dear father used to say, mood and atmosphere really can make it. Never tired to rewatch this gem. Bravo!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
When I was a kid I snuck into the cinemas and ended up watching this with my best mate. We were too young to really appreciate it and it wasn't even particularly scary for us. Watching it now as an adult I find it wayyyy creepier. Great movie too!
Thanks, Tom, for not giving anything away to Shaun while you two were watching! The twist is what makes this movie. Glad he got to experience it. Loved the reaction. Having so much fun watching along on the channel.
I will admit, as someone who loves to put the pieces together and theorise and work out endings before they happen, I did not see the twist that was coming in The Others at all. It wasn't until the closet scene that it hit me. My friend and I were freaking out when we realised! Such a brilliant film and one of my favourites!
I think she went mad with the isolation and seeing no hope for her children. Her children can never go in the sunlight. She is alone and knows her husband isn't coming back... So possibly grief and isolation sent her over the edge.
I worked at a video rental store when this came out. When it came available to rent our monthly video that had to be played on a loop in the store constantly showed that scene with the daughter/old woman under the veil as a preview for the movie. I saw that scene like 30 or more times a day for a whole month lol.
Back in the days, having your picture taken was a pretty big luxury, so people would rarely fork out the money to just casually have photographs of themselves in their living days. However, when a loved one would die, having a tangible momento of how they were, how they looked, was really important in order to grief, so the expense was generally kept for those sad occasions. I don't personally find these photographs creepy, it's just the sad memories of lost loved one, not any weirder than keeping an ash urn. Spirit boards were also often used as a therapeutic means to "talk" with deceased loved ones and to find some degree of closure (it's only with the advent of cinema that the ouija board became a "tool of the devil" or whatever evil is attributed to it these days). Different times, different coping mechanisms.
Photographs like that are still a thing, especially in the case of stillborn babies, or babies that died very soon after birth. To give the parents at least one picture of their child.
Give Devil's Backbone a watch. Not an out and out Horror, but it is ghostly tale. It's set in Spain before Pan's Labyrinth and is written and directed by Del Toro. It's just a unique and beautiful ghost story.
It reminded me of a vintage Alfred Hitchcock film. The subtle, pervasive sense of dread and apprehension was really well-done. I liked everything about it. Even though I'd seen The Sixth Sense, the ending was still a surprise. It was frightening, disturbing and suspenseful, without a single drop of blood or gore. A genuinely cerebral ghost story. A rarity in Hollywood today. I wish more films of this caliber were made.
Do you remember how the movie started? Nicole woke up screaming. That is because she had a dream in which she smothered her children and killed herself. We later find out she actually did carry out the deed. But THAT opening scene, with her screaming is quite significant, which is overlooked by many.
The looks on your faces when you're scared 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant, but I bet I was worse when I started. I really was a wimp when I started watching horrors. Now I really struggle to find anything that scares me... Sometimes I wish for the early days.
I was in my 20s when I saw this in the theater on the afternoon of 9/11. That day was surreal to start with, but watching this slow burn, cozy horror flick while that day's events were starting to sink in only made the whole situation so much more creepy and weird. It was like sheltering from the storm of the chaos going on outside (though I lived in Los Angeles at the time, everyone was still in full on shock and panic mode, not knowing what would happen next)...in a haunted house. I'll never forget that time and place, and The Others will always be a very special movie to me for that reason.
I watched it when they released it on VHS (lol). I got bored halfway through watching with my family and went to bed. When I woke up, it was to a note from my mom telling me to DEFINITELY finish watching the rest of the movie. She didn't usually do that, so I finished it right then and I'm so glad I did. It was definitely a big twist back in '01, though I don't think it'd fool many people now because people expect so many twists.
Yes! I love this movie so much. One of my favorites. With the pictures, I think they did it after they died because it was a huge expense and ordeal back then to get a photo done. So, it was one of the final big things you did for them. Slightly morbid, but you also didn't have to worry about them moving and ruining the picture. It took a good couple minutes and if you moved at all it would create a giant smear.
Sean: "Don't react, else I will be expecting something." Also, Sean: makes wild guess and asks for confirmation. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Great reaction! I love this movie.
This movie was so well done! It's like you KNOW something isn't right, but you don't know what it is. I'm American but consider myself to be pretty knowledgable in history... and until I saw this movie I hadn't known that part of Britain (the Channel Islands) had been occupied by the Nazis during WWII.
The seance scene 😮😮 i didn't know until that scene 😮 i love that the ghosts cant see the living until that scene. Total sixth sense vib "they only see what they want to see!" 😮😮
It's funny you mentioned that it's like a play. Nicole Kidman did a movie called "Dogville" which was filmed like it was a play. It's pretty long but it's absolutely masterful. Didn't see the ending coming to "The Others" and it was so great on the big screen.
I’m sorry but I love Shaun’s reaction when Grace tells Mr Tuttle to sleep in the shed! 2:55. “The shed!?!” His tone of voice and shocked look makes me laugh every time! Lolol. 😂
A friend's great-grandmother had some of those death photos that she would show us kids (those of us brave enough to ask to see them, anyway.) One was of three children - siblings of hers that were taken out all within a day of each other by diphtheria.
BTW, it was indeed common in the 19th century for people to have photographs of their deceased loved ones taken. It sounds so creepy and macabre to us, but you have to remember that photography was new and expensive and a lot rarer than today. The survivors likely didn't have photos of the loved ones living... this way they would have at least a way to remember their faces. And sadly, in the late 19th century, about 1 out of 5 children didn't live to see their 5th birthday.
this is such a great movie I actually went to see this the day it came out with a friend, and while we were in the middle of it, a cyclone ripped through our town and knocked the power out when granny took over the features of the little girl
I was waiting for this reaction for sooo long! THANK you, guys! I rate this movie *10/10* . This is a _masterpiece_ of a movie! And when you rewatch it is also great because you can get all the hints and clues left all over the movie. I watched this movie when it came out in 2001 and I had a blast with it and with that unpredictable insane masterpiece of an ending! I didn’t guess the twist and I’m glad that I didn’t otherwise it would have affected my movie experience that the director intended me to have. Unfortunately, since 2001 many movies and many TV shows have used this twist so many times, that now is recorded in our unconsciousness, so almost every time we watch a ghost movie we immediately think that one of the characters is already dead. But it wasn't like that at all back in 2001. The only movie that did that before The Others was *The Sixth Sense* . _So watching The Others in 2022 is not the same experience as watching it in 2001_ . unless of course you have a time machine... This movie also has *3 amazing twists/reveals* : 1 - the servants are dead 2 - Grace, Anne and Nicholas are also dead 3 - Grace murdered her children and committed suicide!
This makes for a great double-feature with The Changeling - both have amazing seance sequences and are just great. I'm also so jealous of Tom's t-shirt. I watched all 6 hours of the live broadcast, in tears more than a few times along the way, and tried so hard to get tickets to the LA show but never did.
To answer your question; post mortem photographs became popular in the Victorian period because photography was relatively new, and many people took advantage of the opportunity to have one last photo of their loved ones. Today we have countless pictures of friends and family, but at that time people might only be photographed once (if at all) in their entire lives. What seems disturbing and macabre to us now actually made sense then. Imagine your loved one dying, and you not having even one picture of them to remember them by... Often a post mortem photo was the only photo of their loved one that the family would ever have. There are many famous post mortem photos which are fake. For example, ones in which a supposedly dead person is standing, with the assistance of a posting stand. Posing stands were in fact only used to keep the subject still, as at that time photos took up to 30 minutes to develop, and any movement on the part of the subject would cause them to appear blurry in the photo. In reality posing stands were quite flimsy, and could not possibly have supported the weight of a deceased person, even a child. Most genuine post mortem photos were taken with the subject laying in bed, and sometimes propped and tied in a seated position in a chair. Often with living family members as well. Interestingly, in post mortem photos that included living people with a deceased one, the image of the deceased person is perfectly clear, while the living family members appear more blurry. This is because they moved, even just a little, while the photo developed, and the deceased person, of course, did not
I would slightly amend your comment, in that the picture isn't fake, it's a real picture of a real person, it's just not a post mortem photograph. Often because people nowadays misinterpret the picture. 😊
I watched this one, back when it came out in 2001 and remember being underwhelmed initially. Guess I was expecting something with lots of jump scares and a faster tempo. But this movie got under my skin in a good way and now I absolutely love it. It's a well crafted movie, great acting and an interesting story that leaves some room to speculate about what was exactly going on (for example regarding the husband) The twist gives it all an extra layer, which is amazing. Great reaction guys, to an awesome movie.
This was an original idea for me at the time--where ghosts can be equally haunted and terrified by the living. I wondered if that could be the case why ghosts in many ghost videos are often elusive and would often just peek from somewhere and then disappear, we probably look scary through their ghost eyes so they keep away and hide. I don't believe in ghosts but I'm not dismissive of the possibility of their existence and this movie presented an interesting way of looking at it.
How is it possible that he saw this movie when he was 8 years old, and I saw it when I was already a grown up man, but he's older than me. I don't understand how time works sometimes 😂
It actually makes some kind of sense that photographs of the dead would be taken. Photography wasn't widely accessible, people generally didn't have photos of their loved ones in life, so this was a period where funeral directors doubled-up as portrait photographers to give families a way to remember their loved one. I think it's comparable to school photos in the 40s and 50s, that's basically how that started - people didn't have cameras, they'd have to travel or have the photographer come to them. The whole school photo thing exists today because photographers would travel to provide that service.
How no one ever noticed in the beginning, the three peasants were there to tell her she was dead. When she welcomed them in as new servants, they realized she needed their hep. It's why they stayed and tried to make them see it. The husband was dead too, he too was there to wake her up about being dead. That's why he came in from the fog. The fog was her prison. She couldn't go beyond it, that's why she got lost in it. By the way, The Others is one of the last great movie experiences I had at the movies. There was a lot of screams, when that disembodied voice came out of nowhere. When the little girl tells her brother at the cemetary to get away from them. And of course the old lady when she appeared both times.
Sean is so TENSE and it’s absolutely AMAZING and KUDOS to Tom for not displaying any emotion. When the older lady says…”big changes are coming”…SEAN “WTF you talking about”. 😂❤👏🏽 . Thank you for sharing your review…I loved the suspense of this AMAZING MOVIE. 🙋🏻♀️🎥👏🏽✨
Fantastic reaction guy's, this is a tense atmospheric story with a brilliant twist ending, I seen this at the cinema and didn't predict the twist at all. Nicole Kidman deserved a Oscar for her performance in this film she was outstanding.
This was fun - I hope you get a chance to react to - The Skeleton Key. It's almost like this - the twist I mean... And, its set in the bayous/swamps of Louisiana... Sort of like True Blood, but without the vampires...
I only know of the ‘girl being the old lady playing with a doll’ scene from scary movie. I never knew it was from this film till now 😂😅. Keep up the good work boys. I ❤ your videos they always make me laugh and you both clearly know your film knowledge 🎥.
I put this at an 8 or 8.5 myself. I feel like the concept was ahead of it's time, the acting, the mood building (the excellent use of light and dark in the house being used almost like water in a submarine or something), the twist of the haunting being the living people. All of it adds up to an 8 - 8.5 for me. Love your reactions guys! thanks for sharing your journey with us! 💚
I saw this at the cinema - so atmospheric, so tense and what a twist!!! Her hubby at the time, Tom Cruise, produced it I think. You want to really **** yourself up this Halloween?? Eden Lake Wolf Creek
One of my favourite films of all time; I love the gothic horror setting, the atmosphere, the incredible performance by Nicole Kidman (one of her best in my opinion). Those who enjoy it should also check out The Innocents (1961) with a similarly excellent Deborah Kerr and disquieting atmosphere, it had a big influence on The Others.
Really enjoy your reactions. Your both easy to listen to compared to other reactors! This is one of my favorite movies. I think all the acting was believable including the kids.
Fionnula Flanagan (The Headmistress) is such a great under-rated actress. I always enjoy watching her. She's also in "Waking Ned Devine" and she plays Data's "Mother" in one of the episodes of ST:TNG.
Post-mortem photography was a common practice in the 19th century because photography was expensive and most people couldn't afford it. So often, a post-mortem photo of a deceased loved one was the only photo the family had of that person. The mortality rate was much higher, especially among children.
the husband passing through was him walking through purgatory, he didn't know he was dead, and he found his wife and kids in purgatory but he had to keep going since it wasn't his purgatory to stay in.
I'm so glad I found your channel. Very entertaining and I find that I share some of the same points of view about the majority of the films you have reviewed and/or first time watched. Since you don't pigeon hole genres, horror to be precise, into a neat little box, I would like to suggest that you check out Ghost Story from 1981. It is exactly that...a really good Ghost Story. Once again, love the channel and good luck to you both.
Another great underrated horror is Suspiria (2018). It's haunting and really well done in its realistic depiction of a certain type of people that may harness otherworldly powers (to not spoil anything). Tarintino was gushing about it and angry that he didn't make it himself. Also, there's an incredible song from Radiohead in the film that wraps it up. And is almost worth the entire watch alone it's so good.
@@boomieboo Only parts of it. I kinda gave up on that director because his stuff is super Italian and weird and it doesn't make a ton of sense to me. I've heard people say it's a classic though.
Let me tell you, 21 years ago when I went to see this in the theater, when the old woman opens the closet in the end, the WHOLE audience screamed from terror. Magic.
I saw it several times in the cinema and that moment worked every time :) it was such a great cinema experience.
I think it was the first pg-13 movie I got to go see with my sister hahaha that part happened and she literally screamed "OH SHITTT"!! then we were just trying to quietly laugh for like 10 minutes after. This movie's really dumb now though IMO.
21 years?!?!??? Oh god.
i can’t wait what was waiting upstairs , and i was so terrified and excited what’s waiting in that room.
I am a screamer. I couldn't help but scream in the theatre when the old woman popped up. Unfortunately, I was the only one.
One of the scariest things in this movie is the idea that your trauma can follow you to the afterlife. She wonders out into the fog and finds her lost husband. She pulls his spirit home with her and with his kids but he's trapped in the mind that he died in.
Yes! It's a different experience watching this as an adult.
One of the scariest things in this movie is that your job can follow you to the afterlife. Why wants to be a maid for eternity? Get your own dinner!
And how the kids have breathing problems, and the mother has migraines/headaches cause she blew her own her head off. The idea of how you die continuing to affect you is terrifying.
Being trapped with an abusive, unstable parent for an eternity 😱
@@b-six-twelve I think she was unstable because she was stuck in a house of literal darkness with two special-needs children, while her husband was missing. I think that would have driven anyone mad. But now that she understands and has come to terms with what happened, their new reality, and the kids don't have their disorder to deal with anymore, she would hopefully be better. A not-so-fun fact: this condition is real, albeit rare, it's called Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP for short). It's a genetic -- people who have it don't have a very long life expectancy, something like 37 years (they tend to develop cancers). So it's likely that Anne and Nicholas would have died pretty young anyway.
A cool little detail is how the opening scream is most likely the mom 'waking up' from her murder/suicide. Also, the three servants were definitely there when the family was alive, and may have even 'sensed' them. Hence why they seem to quickly catch on to the family dynamics, they've sort of 'known' them before they even met them.
I give this film a 10. It’s a perfect film with a totally original theme and shocking ending.
Just rewatched it for Halloween. It holds up so incredibly well and I couldn't find a thing out of place. When knowing the ending, it's still great to rewatch because you can see how well everything adds up. It's one of those films where even if you can guess the ending, it's so fitting and impactful you still have a visceral reaction to it. And while it has so few characters and locations, it's packed with commentary on grief, religion, war, trauma etc... I'd give it a 10 also.
This is one of my all-time favorites. Nicole Kidman is incredible as a mother barely holding on to sanity. I also think it's beautifully shot.
Agree 100%. Nicole's performance puts you on edge from the very beginning, and she has a knack of portraying characters with a harsh edge without being unsympathetic.
The Others is one of my favorite movies of all time. To me, the twist ending is just the icing on the cake. The acting, the minimalist setting, the gorgeous music and cinematography, the movement of the camera - it never gets old for me. It is a weird shame, though, that this movie seems to have fallen through the cracks. As of now, it doesn't seem to be available on ANY streaming service.
That probably had a lot to do with it coming out after "The Sixth Sense", its popularity led to a lot of copycat movies, "familiarity breeds contempt", maybe people were over the formula. This to me is the superior of the two.
It's kind of an old-fashioned movie in a lot of ways. They don't make movies like this much anymore.
@WastedPo - Agreed, much credit and praise for Alejandro Amenábar: the writer, director and composer for this haunting modern classic. The soundtrack is wonderfully evocative.
1990's 'Truly, Madly, Deeply,' inspired this type of story, perhaps ?
I love how Sean figured out the kids are dead, and the mother is nuts in the first five minutes.
To be fair, he threw enough theories out there one was bound to land
and that the father has died
That actually kinda ruined it for me.
@@b-six-twelve Well, I guess I don't need to watch Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge now.
@@b-six-twelve Well, I wasn't around when it premiered, was I?
I saw this in the theater and I remember the whole audience realized the twist at the same time. It reminds me of why I like seeing films in the theater. It immerses you into the story. I also remember coming home and finding out Aaliyah had died in a plane crash.
This movie always freaked me out more than most because I think the existence depicted in it is how it really is for ghosts. They're just carrying on and living as normal while stuck between worlds. And are at varying stages of acceptance and knowledge of their death.
Also I think the husband was killed in the war and visiting her from heaven. Or was just allowed to ascend from the purgatory that the mom and her children had to remain in. This is why he eventually left. Not that she simply had a dream about him.
I think he came to say goodbye and was freaked out that they were also dead.
I always think of this movie when I think of what real ghosts might be like. Like in a parallel dimension or something,
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I think he was seriously injured in war and was in a coma, but then the doctors saved him, so he had to go back to the world of the living.
Notice how Nicole Kidman's character complains of having terrible headaches...then we find out how she died!
The fascinating thing is that this came out after The Sixth Sense, when "ghost twist" horror films were already known, but it somehow is still nearly impossible to guess the ending. The screenplay is almost perfect.
The old woman being seen so much kind of gave it away for me. Suspected she was a medium/gypsy etc.
Afterwards I felt like "They got me again with the same twist!"
That was a gr8 era for horror films in hindsight
@@paolom.6011 We get it you're very amazing observant person just to let us all know.
Sadly the screenplay was written before the sixth sense, but no one wanted to produce it
I rarely try to figure out twists or predict endings when watching films, but when I first saw this in the theaters I realized what was going on when the door slams in her face. The locking of the door sounded so frantic. It probably helped that The 6th Sense was still in recent memory when this came out!
Once I saw the old woman had been seen 14 times, I suspected she was a medium and thus the twist.
Exactly, 6th Sense is why I was still on guard & suspected this twist very early. I don't think I would have seen it coming otherwise.
Right. For me, the major flaw in this movie was that it came out within two years after The Sixth Sense.
@@melanie62954 They should have waited to 2005 lol
I love this movie and never get bored of re-watching it. The score, the atmosphere, the acting, the calm voices, it's brilliant.
I was gobsmacked first time- I'd completely forgotten about the gunshot at the beginning. The fog keeps them from leaving.
One of my favorite films. Actually, Nicole's ex-hubby, Tom Cruise, was a producer on this. Her acting was incredible. But she was in two movies that year and they put her up for Oscar consideration on the other film. She deserved an Oscar for this. IMO.
Moulin Rouge was a real 'movie-star' kind of performance though. But she's good in everything.
@@ct6852 Have you heard the duet she dud with Luke Evans on his new album? The do a cover of "Say Something". It's really good. IMO.
@@Markyajv Luke Evans the actor that played Gaston? I've only heard her sing in Moulin Rouge, the theme song for one of the recent shows she starred in, and I think she might have had something on Big Little Lies?
Oh just realized she didn't win the Oscar for Moulin Rouge. It was for playing Virginia Woolf in the Hours. Whoops.
@@ct6852 Yes, they were in 9 perfect strangers and he found out that she loved to sing. One night they were at a dinner party and he said she asked him to sing with her while her husband played. When he was making his new album he wanted to cover this song and the only person he knew could do it was Nicole. So he asked her. Here's a link. ruclips.net/video/z3FUIiBMQb0/видео.html
The small details like the migraines due to her shoot herself in the head, the slow burn to the twist at the end was all so really well done.The dad was in limbo imo and the fog was used to represent that. And will Shaun finally grow out his beard? 😊
So many similarities between this and The Haunting of Hill House!
The twist in this movie has to be one of the best I've ever seen. Not even once did I consider it. My jaw hit the floor. But now when I watch the movie again, I can see little hints that reveal the truth. Very good movie and great performance by Nicole Kidman.
I actually got to see this in theaters, this flick still holds up even if you know how it ends.
I have watched the Others many times and even though I know the ending, I still love the slow reveal. That's what makes films that much more intriguing and interesting. This film never drags during its watch but it keeps you invested until the end. Definitely one of Nicole Kidman's BEST performances.
Like the Sixth Sense, it's a classic that still holds up.
I didn't see it coming. This flick had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. It's a classic.
Back then a "shed" usually meant a guest house that was reserved for the workers. It was much nicer and larger than a tool shed.
Sean predicting the "worst case scenarios" over and over had me laughing. This movie is so good! I remember being completely shocked at the ending! Gave me chills!
I LOVE that you are doing The Others!!! Such a classic ghost story and often overlooked nowadays! Perfect for Halloween!
The Others is one of my favorite paranormal movies. I was 12 when I saw this in theaters with my mom and we were both surprised with the twist. I always took it that Kidmans character was feeling isolated with not being able to go anywhere because of her children condition and with not getting news of her husband for months if not at least a year and either the servants leaving and her truly being alone with just her children or her feeling trapped and did what she did and the servants left after. Idk
I love this movie…and yet, somehow I never realized the guy who played the husband was the guy from “Shallow Grave” and “28 Days Later”.
The old lady appearing at the wardrobe door was one of the biggest jump scares I’ve ever had watching a movie. Everybody at the theatre jumped/screamed. And, I was constantly going back and forth over whether or not she and her kids were dead. But by the reveal, I had convinced myself they weren’t…so I was shocked to see the seance and thought it was such a cool scene.
He was Dr Who too!
Christopher Ecclestone is a great actor - loved him as the Duke of Norfolk in Elizabeth.
I saw it in theaters when it was released, i was 17. Didn' t see that twist coming! And, by then, i had seen The Sixth Sense and similar films. There was a general gasp in the movie theater by the end. Watching it at that time, pre-Internet craze, was such a great experience to have. The movie has this old school, vintage quality to it. And Nicole Kidman was amazing in it.
I remember seeing this when it first came out. I was 12 and the twist was one of the most shocking and unexpected things I’d ever experienced. I did not see it coming! I made so many of my friends watch this with me after that, just to see their reaction when the twist was revealed! So good!
How old are you now? Not being rude, but I think we may be the same age :)
That scream in the beginning is enough to set the tone. The soundscape in this movie is amazing. It's like it is an entity of its own.
One of my favorite horror films. Never fails to fill you with dread, no matter how many times you've seen it.
Since you mentioned that this would be great as a stage play, I think that if you're near enough to London you two should get tickets to go see the play of "The Woman in Black" (based on the novel) which has been running since 1989, the 2nd-longest running play in London. It's utterly terrifying. Afterwards, come back and do a reaction of the film version with Daniel Radcliff (also very well done).
Also the play 2:22! Great play. I saw that with Lilly Allen. Well I say I saw it with Lily Allen, what I mean is she was in it 😁
I'm so excited! This movie tends to get forgotten by so many movie reactors, but I'm so happy my first time seeing a reactor watch this is you two! You're both some of my favorites on this site. I'm about to watch the video and I hope you guys love this movie as much as I do. I watched it so many times as a child.
Glad you all are watching this one! It’s pretty underrated in my opinion
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Um…she won an Oscar for this performance
@@jeffreytabler4222 that's The Hours
@@jeffreytabler4222 Um, no lol
@@jeffreytabler4222 😂😂
I only saw the twist coming because The Sixth Sense was so fresh in my mind and this was similar, but with the added element that who we thought were the ghosts are actually the living. I think it was the scene when the door is moving back and forth and a germ of a thought entered my head that asked what it would look like from the “ghost” perspective and realized that it could be people who are equally freaked out as Nicole Kidman that a door is moving by itself. From then on I saw the clues and realized what was going on from there.
I remember the film for the first time on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) 5-6 years ago, during The 31 Days Of Halloween, and the twist ending was one of the craziest and most shocking in horror film history!
Honestly, one of my favorite horror films of all time. If you could even consider it a horror. It’s depressing pretty much the entire time. Just a really good haunted house story. Atmosphere is incredible too.
I will not call this a horror movie, suspense, psychological, mystery maybe, but not horror.
@@Arturo.H.M A mother murdering her children and blowing her own brains out is horrific. For those children to join that mother in haunting their former home and being troubled by "others", i.e. the living, is disturbing. Can it be described as a horror? It's a matter of definition perhaps.
Modern horror movie masterpiece! Gore and blood is not horror, as my dear father used to say, mood and atmosphere really can make it. Never tired to rewatch this gem. Bravo!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
When I was a kid I snuck into the cinemas and ended up watching this with my best mate. We were too young to really appreciate it and it wasn't even particularly scary for us. Watching it now as an adult I find it wayyyy creepier. Great movie too!
Thanks, Tom, for not giving anything away to Shaun while you two were watching! The twist is what makes this movie. Glad he got to experience it. Loved the reaction. Having so much fun watching along on the channel.
Stunning movie, Nicole kidman should have won an Oscar!!!
This is one of my favourite movies ever. Watched it on theater when it got realised, bought its vhs and then the dvd later on.
This movie ranked at #83 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo, cool reaction fellas, take care and Happy Halloween 🎃
One of my favorite movies.
I've never been this early! I first saw this when I was 8 or 9, and not only did it terrify me, it gave me an existential crisis 😂
I will admit, as someone who loves to put the pieces together and theorise and work out endings before they happen, I did not see the twist that was coming in The Others at all. It wasn't until the closet scene that it hit me. My friend and I were freaking out when we realised! Such a brilliant film and one of my favourites!
I think she went mad with the isolation and seeing no hope for her children. Her children can never go in the sunlight. She is alone and knows her husband isn't coming back... So possibly grief and isolation sent her over the edge.
I worked at a video rental store when this came out. When it came available to rent our monthly video that had to be played on a loop in the store constantly showed that scene with the daughter/old woman under the veil as a preview for the movie. I saw that scene like 30 or more times a day for a whole month lol.
Back in the days, having your picture taken was a pretty big luxury, so people would rarely fork out the money to just casually have photographs of themselves in their living days. However, when a loved one would die, having a tangible momento of how they were, how they looked, was really important in order to grief, so the expense was generally kept for those sad occasions. I don't personally find these photographs creepy, it's just the sad memories of lost loved one, not any weirder than keeping an ash urn. Spirit boards were also often used as a therapeutic means to "talk" with deceased loved ones and to find some degree of closure (it's only with the advent of cinema that the ouija board became a "tool of the devil" or whatever evil is attributed to it these days). Different times, different coping mechanisms.
Photographs like that are still a thing, especially in the case of stillborn babies, or babies that died very soon after birth. To give the parents at least one picture of their child.
Give Devil's Backbone a watch. Not an out and out Horror, but it is ghostly tale. It's set in Spain before Pan's Labyrinth and is written and directed by Del Toro. It's just a unique and beautiful ghost story.
Yes, I second the recommendation for
"The Devils Backbone".
Lol Tom was trying SO hard to not give anything away
It reminded me of a vintage Alfred Hitchcock film. The subtle, pervasive sense of dread and apprehension was really well-done. I liked everything about it. Even though I'd seen The Sixth Sense, the ending was still a surprise.
It was frightening, disturbing and suspenseful, without a single drop of blood or gore. A genuinely cerebral ghost story. A rarity in Hollywood today. I wish more films of this caliber were made.
Do you remember how the movie started? Nicole woke up screaming. That is because she had a dream in which she smothered her children and killed herself. We later find out she actually did carry out the deed. But THAT opening scene, with her screaming is quite significant, which is overlooked by many.
The looks on your faces when you're scared 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant, but I bet I was worse when I started. I really was a wimp when I started watching horrors.
Now I really struggle to find anything that scares me... Sometimes I wish for the early days.
I was in my 20s when I saw this in the theater on the afternoon of 9/11. That day was surreal to start with, but watching this slow burn, cozy horror flick while that day's events were starting to sink in only made the whole situation so much more creepy and weird. It was like sheltering from the storm of the chaos going on outside (though I lived in Los Angeles at the time, everyone was still in full on shock and panic mode, not knowing what would happen next)...in a haunted house. I'll never forget that time and place, and The Others will always be a very special movie to me for that reason.
I watched it when they released it on VHS (lol). I got bored halfway through watching with my family and went to bed. When I woke up, it was to a note from my mom telling me to DEFINITELY finish watching the rest of the movie. She didn't usually do that, so I finished it right then and I'm so glad I did. It was definitely a big twist back in '01, though I don't think it'd fool many people now because people expect so many twists.
Yes! I love this movie so much. One of my favorites. With the pictures, I think they did it after they died because it was a huge expense and ordeal back then to get a photo done. So, it was one of the final big things you did for them. Slightly morbid, but you also didn't have to worry about them moving and ruining the picture. It took a good couple minutes and if you moved at all it would create a giant smear.
Sean: "Don't react, else I will be expecting something."
Also, Sean: makes wild guess and asks for confirmation. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great reaction! I love this movie.
This movie was so well done! It's like you KNOW something isn't right, but you don't know what it is. I'm American but consider myself to be pretty knowledgable in history... and until I saw this movie I hadn't known that part of Britain (the Channel Islands) had been occupied by the Nazis during WWII.
Alejandro Amenabar also directed 'Open Your Eyes,' which was made into 'Vanilla Sky,' starring Tom Crusie, Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz.
The seance scene 😮😮 i didn't know until that scene 😮 i love that the ghosts cant see the living until that scene. Total sixth sense vib "they only see what they want to see!" 😮😮
It's funny you mentioned that it's like a play. Nicole Kidman did a movie called "Dogville" which was filmed like it was a play. It's pretty long but it's absolutely masterful. Didn't see the ending coming to "The Others" and it was so great on the big screen.
One of my favourites since I was a kid. It truly terrified me when I was little but it is still scary even now knowing the twist
I’m sorry but I love Shaun’s reaction when Grace tells Mr Tuttle to sleep in the shed! 2:55. “The shed!?!” His tone of voice and shocked look makes me laugh every time! Lolol. 😂
I’ve been watching you guys since your reaction to Halloween and it’s crazy how far you’ve come. Almost 90k!!
"I bet their little pixies running around" 😆 🤣 😂
A friend's great-grandmother had some of those death photos that she would show us kids (those of us brave enough to ask to see them, anyway.) One was of three children - siblings of hers that were taken out all within a day of each other by diphtheria.
I laughed when Sean/Shawn/Shaun kept saying the kids are dead/ghosts. Well done calling it right away xD
BTW, it was indeed common in the 19th century for people to have photographs of their deceased loved ones taken. It sounds so creepy and macabre to us, but you have to remember that photography was new and expensive and a lot rarer than today. The survivors likely didn't have photos of the loved ones living... this way they would have at least a way to remember their faces. And sadly, in the late 19th century, about 1 out of 5 children didn't live to see their 5th birthday.
Too true. When my grandmother died at age seventy, she had outlived five of her children and three of her grandchildren.
this is such a great movie
I actually went to see this the day it came out with a friend, and while we were in the middle of it, a cyclone ripped through our town and knocked the power out when granny took over the features of the little girl
I was waiting for this reaction for sooo long! THANK you, guys!
I rate this movie *10/10* . This is a _masterpiece_ of a movie! And when you rewatch it is also great because you can get all the hints and clues left all over the movie.
I watched this movie when it came out in 2001 and I had a blast with it and with that unpredictable insane masterpiece of an ending!
I didn’t guess the twist and I’m glad that I didn’t otherwise it would have affected my movie experience that the director intended me to have.
Unfortunately, since 2001 many movies and many TV shows have used this twist so many times, that now is recorded in our unconsciousness, so almost every time we watch a ghost movie we immediately think that one of the characters is already dead. But it wasn't like that at all back in 2001. The only movie that did that before The Others was *The Sixth Sense* .
_So watching The Others in 2022 is not the same experience as watching it in 2001_ . unless of course you have a time machine...
This movie also has *3 amazing twists/reveals* :
1 - the servants are dead
2 - Grace, Anne and Nicholas are also dead
3 - Grace murdered her children and committed suicide!
This is one of my favorite movies! When I first saw the ending, I was so shocked that it took me a second watch to fully process the whole thing.
This makes for a great double-feature with The Changeling - both have amazing seance sequences and are just great. I'm also so jealous of Tom's t-shirt. I watched all 6 hours of the live broadcast, in tears more than a few times along the way, and tried so hard to get tickets to the LA show but never did.
This is one of those films I wish I could see again for the first time.
To answer your question; post mortem photographs became popular in the Victorian period because photography was relatively new, and many people took advantage of the opportunity to have one last photo of their loved ones. Today we have countless pictures of friends and family, but at that time people might only be photographed once (if at all) in their entire lives. What seems disturbing and macabre to us now actually made sense then. Imagine your loved one dying, and you not having even one picture of them to remember them by... Often a post mortem photo was the only photo of their loved one that the family would ever have.
There are many famous post mortem photos which are fake. For example, ones in which a supposedly dead person is standing, with the assistance of a posting stand. Posing stands were in fact only used to keep the subject still, as at that time photos took up to 30 minutes to develop, and any movement on the part of the subject would cause them to appear blurry in the photo. In reality posing stands were quite flimsy, and could not possibly have supported the weight of a deceased person, even a child. Most genuine post mortem photos were taken with the subject laying in bed, and sometimes propped and tied in a seated position in a chair. Often with living family members as well. Interestingly, in post mortem photos that included living people with a deceased one, the image of the deceased person is perfectly clear, while the living family members appear more blurry. This is because they moved, even just a little, while the photo developed, and the deceased person, of course, did not
I would slightly amend your comment, in that the picture isn't fake, it's a real picture of a real person, it's just not a post mortem photograph. Often because people nowadays misinterpret the picture. 😊
I watched this one, back when it came out in 2001 and remember being underwhelmed initially. Guess I was expecting something with lots of jump scares and a faster tempo.
But this movie got under my skin in a good way and now I absolutely love it. It's a well crafted movie, great acting and an interesting story that leaves some room to speculate about what was exactly going on (for example regarding the husband) The twist gives it all an extra layer, which is amazing.
Great reaction guys, to an awesome movie.
This was an original idea for me at the time--where ghosts can be equally haunted and terrified by the living. I wondered if that could be the case why ghosts in many ghost videos are often elusive and would often just peek from somewhere and then disappear, we probably look scary through their ghost eyes so they keep away and hide. I don't believe in ghosts but I'm not dismissive of the possibility of their existence and this movie presented an interesting way of looking at it.
My mum hates horror movies but loves The Others, that's how good of a movie it is.
Hahah same !
This film was nominated at the Golden Globes for Lead Actress and Screenplay and an Oscar nominee for Screenplay. So well deserved
How is it possible that he saw this movie when he was 8 years old, and I saw it when I was already a grown up man, but he's older than me. I don't understand how time works sometimes 😂
It actually makes some kind of sense that photographs of the dead would be taken. Photography wasn't widely accessible, people generally didn't have photos of their loved ones in life, so this was a period where funeral directors doubled-up as portrait photographers to give families a way to remember their loved one. I think it's comparable to school photos in the 40s and 50s, that's basically how that started - people didn't have cameras, they'd have to travel or have the photographer come to them. The whole school photo thing exists today because photographers would travel to provide that service.
How no one ever noticed in the beginning, the three peasants were there to tell her she was dead. When she welcomed them in as new servants, they realized she needed their hep. It's why they stayed and tried to make them see it.
The husband was dead too, he too was there to wake her up about being dead. That's why he came in from the fog. The fog was her prison. She couldn't go beyond it, that's why she got lost in it.
By the way, The Others is one of the last great movie experiences I had at the movies. There was a lot of screams, when that disembodied voice came out of nowhere. When the little girl tells her brother at the cemetary to get away from them. And of course the old lady when she appeared both times.
Sean is so TENSE and it’s absolutely AMAZING and KUDOS to Tom for not displaying any emotion. When the older lady says…”big changes are coming”…SEAN “WTF you talking about”. 😂❤👏🏽 . Thank you for sharing your review…I loved the suspense of this AMAZING MOVIE. 🙋🏻♀️🎥👏🏽✨
Fantastic reaction guy's, this is a tense atmospheric story with a brilliant twist ending, I seen this at the cinema and didn't predict the twist at all.
Nicole Kidman deserved a Oscar for her performance in this film she was outstanding.
Side Note: You two are the cutest couple. I just love you both! Even if your not together, your energy is very adorable!
I'm so glad you guys enjoyed this! I'm not a horror film watcher, but this has such great atmosphere, mystery, and tension.
"Thesis" is so good! You guys should watch it, since it is foreign horror!
First time watching it and the twist was very surprising. I was like "no way. wtf"
It’s fun watching this after you’ve seen the twist .. you see it from a different perspective ..
one of my fav movies ♥️
Fionnula Flanagan is wonderful in every part she plays.
One of the best, if not THE best supernatural movie ever made.
This was fun - I hope you get a chance to react to - The Skeleton Key. It's almost like this - the twist I mean... And, its set in the bayous/swamps of Louisiana... Sort of like True Blood, but without the vampires...
THE OTHERS - It's one of my favorite horror films ever!
I remember when I saw this in the movies as a kid - I thought about it for days! 👻
I only know of the ‘girl being the old lady playing with a doll’ scene from scary movie. I never knew it was from this film till now 😂😅. Keep up the good work boys. I ❤ your videos they always make me laugh and you both clearly know your film knowledge 🎥.
It's the way Kidman pronounces 'curtains' that always cracks me up.
Thankfully there were no kittens in the movie. That would've been too much.
I put this at an 8 or 8.5 myself. I feel like the concept was ahead of it's time, the acting, the mood building (the excellent use of light and dark in the house being used almost like water in a submarine or something), the twist of the haunting being the living people. All of it adds up to an 8 - 8.5 for me. Love your reactions guys! thanks for sharing your journey with us! 💚
I saw this at the cinema - so atmospheric, so tense and what a twist!!! Her hubby at the time, Tom Cruise, produced it I think.
You want to really **** yourself up this Halloween??
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One of my favourite films of all time; I love the gothic horror setting, the atmosphere, the incredible performance by Nicole Kidman (one of her best in my opinion). Those who enjoy it should also check out The Innocents (1961) with a similarly excellent Deborah Kerr and disquieting atmosphere, it had a big influence on The Others.
Yes! I think The Innocents is one of the eeriest movies ever made.
Really enjoy your reactions. Your both easy to listen to compared to other reactors! This is one of my favorite movies. I think all the acting was believable including the kids.
Fionnula Flanagan (The Headmistress) is such a great under-rated actress. I always enjoy watching her. She's also in "Waking Ned Devine" and she plays Data's "Mother" in one of the episodes of ST:TNG.
Post-mortem photography was a common practice in the 19th century because photography was expensive and most people couldn't afford it. So often, a post-mortem photo of a deceased loved one was the only photo the family had of that person. The mortality rate was much higher, especially among children.
the husband passing through was him walking through purgatory, he didn't know he was dead, and he found his wife and kids in purgatory but he had to keep going since it wasn't his purgatory to stay in.
The Others and The Sixth Sense…….two of the best twist endings ever!!!
I'm so glad I found your channel. Very entertaining and I find that I share some of the same points of view about the majority of the films you have reviewed and/or first time watched. Since you don't pigeon hole genres, horror to be precise, into a neat little box, I would like to suggest that you check out Ghost Story from 1981. It is exactly that...a really good Ghost Story. Once again, love the channel and good luck to you both.
Another great underrated horror is Suspiria (2018). It's haunting and really well done in its realistic depiction of a certain type of people that may harness otherworldly powers (to not spoil anything). Tarintino was gushing about it and angry that he didn't make it himself. Also, there's an incredible song from Radiohead in the film that wraps it up. And is almost worth the entire watch alone it's so good.
Have you seen the original?
@@ct6852 Only parts of it but not all the way through. Is it good? I know it's a classic but have yet to see it.
@@boomieboo Only parts of it. I kinda gave up on that director because his stuff is super Italian and weird and it doesn't make a ton of sense to me. I've heard people say it's a classic though.
@@ct6852 Yeah I heard the same. Watch the 2018 version though if you haven't already. It's brilliant.
It’s a rare case of the remake being better than the original.