This week’s movie of the day is The Others (2001), directed by Alejandro Amenabar and starring Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan.
This movie centers around a woman named Grace who lives in a huge mansion. during the mid-1940’s. She lives with her two children, Anne and Nicholas, who have a rare disease where they cannot be around or in direct sunlight.
A trio of servants show up at the mansion after the previous staff just disappeared and left the house. With the trio’s arrival, weird things start happening, including the children reporting other people in the place and strange noises and moving objects on different mansion floors.
I recently watched the Criterion Collection version of this. It is one of my favorite movies because it has an eeriness that draws you in, and you feel like you are part of the movie.
Some interesting facts of the movie:
The children in the movie suffer from a condition called Xeroderma Pigmentosum.
To scare the kid actors in the movie, director Alejandro Amenabar would randomly play scary music.
The actual location of the house was not on the island of Jersey but in Spain.
Nicole Kidman quit during the pre-production phase of the movie because the character of Grace was giving her nightmares.
Have you seen this movie? If so, comment below!!!!
Until next time!
Sources: Youtube and Internet Movie Database
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