i hated the others

[horrorfanatic]

i dont know how all you people like this movie. i love all horror movies, from valentine to the exorcist, but this movie just bored me. it had no action, gore, nudity or any scares. it had a few jumps but thats it. the ending was pathetic and wanted to make me go watch the sixth sense again. al toghether this movie is way over hyped and is not even worth a rental in my case. if you want to see a true psychological haunted house movie see session 9 which i have now officially declared the scariest movie ive ever seen and believe me i have seen them all. please dont bash me that hard i have a sensitive heart.

[chinton]

get it stright. The others was written before sixth sense. Also the whole point of the movie was to get away from all the lame ass horror movies today that just care about nudity and gore and have no sympathetic characters like Valentine.

[Eoghain O'Keeffe]

If you've seen everything there is to see,
horrorfanatic, then you don't need me to tell you that The Sixth Sense wasn't the first story to have that type of ending.

[Quebec-Joel]

For me, The Sixth Sense was a long boring movie. Not many will agree but only the end was giving any interest to the whole story... and even then. It is really forgetable.

"The Others" is in straight line with "The Shining". A gorgeous cinematography, some really creepy and dark armosphere, some really deep character developement. You say "over hyped", I really don't know here by who. Except the fact that Tom Cruise love this director and got him money from Hollywood to make his movie, there is not much that was hyped around. It received amazing critics everywhere and I think Arrow put him in 1st in his top 10 of 2001. It would be my choices as well.

Maybe your just used to a commercial american cinema, you say "I love all horror movies"... but, I'm sure you don't talk about international horror cinema, but most likely about american horror cinema. Even if the movies was finance by hollywood, this movie is truly a spanish movie made by a brilliant spanish director that producer Tom Cruise braught to american attention. It's a really young man of 29 years old that directed this movie(he started at 24 with Thesis, another brilliant horror movies). http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1928639011.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif Then one year later he made the movie witch Tom Cruise will remake : Vanilla Sky http://posters.imdb.com/Covers/12/56/59.jpg

Maybe you should just be more open minded to the kind of cinema your watching. "The Others" will perhaps stand in the top 10 of many people for best horror movies of all time. Session 9 (witch is good) will never be anywhere near there... and surely Valentine deserve in a top 10 worst horror movies of recent times.

The Others is one of my all time favorite ghost story, right after The Shining. Those 2 movies share multiple similarities, but at the same time, are really different. This movie is beautiful, it is smart. It require attention from the viewer and it does mess with your mind a few times. The acting in this movie is truly amazing, Nicole Kidman and the 2 kids really give life to this movie. As did Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and the kid about 20 years ago in The Shining.

You should maybe give this movie a second chance and watch it again. Sure, it could be consider a slow paced movies, but if all that matter to you is pure popcorn entertainement, then just wait for clone#163 of Scream.

[Dehydrator]

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Even Wes Craven's shittinarse remake of CARNEVAL OF SOULS had an ending like that and really, I don't see too much similarity between THE OTHERS and 6TH SENSE. 6TH SENSE was an okay little thriller but nothing all that special, it didn't have the mood, the look or the feel of THE OTHERS. While TO is supposed to make you think it's a haunted house movie (which it is) the TSS was more of a psychological thriller with an ending centered around everything in the movie.

Actually, I think for the Characters in THE OTHERS the fact that they are dead doesn't make much of a difference, with the kids unable to leave the house anyway, Grace's marriage crumbled and with the nice servants to take care of them.

[FeydRautha]

The fact that The Others *doesn't* have any gore, nudity or slasher violence is one of the things that appealed to me about the film. I'm a fan of gore horror, but I also like a good haunted house flick now and again.

I saw it for the first time last night, and while I think it's a very well-made, well-directed and well-acted film, it wasn't as atmospheric as I was expecting, even with the darkened house, closed-off rooms and suspicious-acting servants. One or two good thrills, but it's no The Haunting, that's for sure.

Or it could just be I'm becoming inured to scares on the big screen in my old age. Hard to tell.