TCM Premiere of The Other (1972)

[@adamzanzie]

My video essay "The Making of THE OTHER (1972)" is now up here on KZbin, taken from my conversations with all of the principle surviving cast/crew members!

[@melaubach]

I just watched this and really loved it. Thank you!

[@Celestia2112]

I still wait for his commentary when watching a movie on TCM- miss Robert Osborne so much.

[@adamzanzie]

Me, too.

[@3prettyvacant]

Robert Osborne was an excellent host...I was really kind of shocked when I heard he was gone. :o(

[@MrMcmovez]

I was just thinking the same thing. TCM was my poor man's film school. RIP

[@gretchennelson9965]

So do I. He was excellent.👏

[@bigdaddytrips6197]

Did he pass away ?

[@mariosanchezgumiel7757]

"The Other" is a masterpiece. Thank you for posting these commentaries by Robert Osborne.

[@MVR326]

It is truly a horror movie in every sense and a brilliant story which dramatically unveils itself to the viewer, and does not have to rely on cheap jolts. I remember being 9 years old, walking home from school past one of our neighborhood theaters in Brooklyn, and the poster used to really scare me. Also, if you have not read the book, its well written but it actually made me a little nauseated ... I'll just say this,, the pitchfork in the barn scene.

[@dejure9178]

It is quite simply the scariest movie I’ve ever watched-magnificent!

[@bigdaddytrips6197]

This movie was not even scary .

[@jadeloveselliott]

I remember this as a really scary movie. I was 9 when I saw it. EEK

[@bigdaddytrips6197]

This movie sucked the just watched it

[@surf2liv]

Same here, 9 my favorite 💥

[@6Haunted-Days]

@@bigdaddytrips6197 Christ….yea who cares, clearly it’s a SUBJECTIVE OPINION….these kinds of movies require a subtlety and intelligence you most obviously do not have….why not move on, who in the hell goes OUT OF THEIR WAY….to find this video and post how much they hated the movie ON MANY COMMENTS. Very odd weird and strange. Says A TON about you ya know, nothing good either.

[@bkohatl]

If you need a movie to watch this Halloween with the kids, 12-years-old and older, or by yourself, I would suggest "The Other" from 1972. It is a psychological thriller about young twins living on a rural farm and how people are turning up dead in the most horrific ways. Roger Ebert said it is one of the most beautifully filmed movies, which it is, odd for a horror movie. It is the ending which will give you the real feeling of the season. One of the twins is killed before the movie starts and his brother slips into insanity, but we don't know this until the end. The other brother still thinks his mischievous brother is still alive and up to no good, but loyalty comes first, so he covers up for him. The family "helps" the surviving twin, by pretending to go along with the boy's delusions. We don't know this, we only see both brothers and their mischief, then the carnage which results. The Twins are played by the Udvanorky twins, "their" acting completely pulls us in. Directed by "Summer of '42" (1971) and "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1963) Robert Mulligan, it is a masterpiece of horror and a psychological thriller. The boys were born in Michael "Bowling for Columbine/Roger and Me" Moore's hometown of Flint Michigan. They were discovered by acting coach Uta Hagen who plays the boys grandmother in the film.

[@adamzanzie]

Actually, the Udvarnoky twins were not discovered by Uta Hagen; they were referred to by a grade school teacher to casting agents who were associated with the production. Watch my video essay "The Making of THE OTHER" here on KZbin, where I interviewed Marty Udvarnoky and he tells the full story.

[@juniorsandoval9624]

the casket nightmare sequence is stuff of nighmares

[@melaubach]

I saw this movie on tv in my early teens (I was born in 1961, same year as the Udvarnoky twins), and it spooked me but good. Some critics pan it, but I love it. I wish it would be made available on Amazon Prime video, KZbin, or some other online source.

[@6Haunted-Days]

😮 ummmm it is

[@donniedarko979]

Fantastic book and movie.

[@susanb2015]

I've seen this on Fox movies. I wonder if TCM would play The Others. A very good movie.

[@thebaby2436]

Its good this movies is finally getting the credit it deserves.

[@You-Toober]

Thanks for posting.

[@jerzirhayzza7166]

Just found out that Chris Udvarnoky passed away a few years ago from polycystic kidney issues. I'm also a little sad that they were living not too far from me in Jersey all those years growing up (they are my brother's age). It would have been magic to have met them in person back in the day. My first book report was on this book. Left a huge impression, both book and movie.

[@adamzanzie]

Chris died in 2010. I know Marty, who has told me a lot of awesome stories for the upcoming video essay that I'm creating about the making of this film. I'm curious: What grade were you in when you did your book report? I find it interesting that "The Other" apparently was once taught to kids in schools. Today, it's easily the kind of book that would get banned by sensitive parents.

[@SerentoCircle]

I have it on Blu-Ray awesome film!

[@donnamiller5222]

This is a classic one twin has passed away as well as the John Ritter and Uta Hagan

[@adamzanzie]

Yes, and I speak at-length about all three of them in my video essay "The Making of The OTHER" (1972) here on KZbin.

[@YRRAL1969]

@loobiroo It's available on Dvd. I think it's still in print.

[@eddieashleyjr7012]

It would be great if they could adapt his third novel “Lady” into a movie or miniseries. It also took place in Pequot Landing. Also “Night of the Moon Bow” would also be a great adaptation.

[@Jimvanhise]

Stephen King once hinted that the Tom Tryon novels were ghost written and that Tryon could have written the books but just didn't have the discipline.

[@adamzanzie]

Do you have King's exact quote pertaining to this? I've never heard anything about Tryon being accused of not writing his own books. I do know that King damned "Harvest Home" with faint praise but I'm not aware of him bashing Tryon as a whole. My opinion is that "The Other" was far and away Tryon's most interesting story, hence why I'm now working on a video essay about it.

[@jerzirhayzza7166]

@@adamzanzie - Many of King's female characters have compelling grey eyes...which I firmly believe he took from Holland and Niles. Just a fleeting thought, as I just had this discussion with my daughter (who has true grey eyes herself).

[@whiteydiamond]

Messed me up as a kid when he threw the dog down the well

[@adamzanzie]

It was actually a cat! But in the movie, I'm not sure Holland actually succeeded in doing that, though he definitely tries to. He does kill it in the book, though.

[@gretchennelson9965]

@@adamzanzie He was trying to and that’s what got him killed.

[@gretchennelson9965]

Tom Tryon also wrote Harvest Home. That was some seriously fucked up stuff.😎

[@adamzanzie]

Not having read the book of it, I will say that the NBC miniseries adaptation of Harvest Home is pretty bad.

[@gretchennelson9965]

@@adamzanzie The book is much better.