The Living and… the Dead? | THE OTHERS (2001) | Movie Reaction

[@learobinson4450]

The mother went after the children while they were sleeping. She attacked Nicholas first so he wasn’t aware of what happened. Anne woke up while her brother was being smothered so she knew what happened - what their mother had done. That’s why she kept saying the mother had done something horrible & was so angry & confrontational with the mother. However she was too young to understand that they were dead, she just knew their mother had harmed them.

[@BigGator5]

"Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead." Fun Fact: To get the kids worked up, director Alejandro Amenábar would play scary music when they weren't expecting it. Medical Fact: The disease the children have is an actual disease known as Xeroderma Pigmentosum, which is basically an extreme sensitivity to sunlight. It is very rare with roughly a thousand people in the world who have it. Global Collaboration Fact: The Others (2001) comes from a peculiar and unique cross-section of production cultures. It stars an Australian woman playing an Englishwoman. It was written and directed by a Spaniard, backed by Americans, set in Jersey but filmed in Spain. Historical Fact: In a pivotal scene, Grace (Nicole Kidman) finds a photograph album containing pictures of people she believed to be sleeping. Mrs. Mills (Fionnula Flanagan) informs her they're all deceased, and that people photographed the deceased in the previous (19th) century. In reality, people did photograph their deceased loved ones during the late 19th century. Most were photographed lying down, as if in a deep sleep; others would be propped up in chairs, posed with favorite objects such as children with favorite playthings; adults with books or newspapers. The reason many families did so was because that would be the only photograph they would have of the family member(s) if they didn't, as photography was a rarity in the 19th Century.

[@AceMoonshot]

Well done. Again. Thanks.

[@henryellow]

To be extremely sensitive to light is almost as bad as being allergic to water. It's crazy that both siblings have it. I knew right away that the people in the photographs were dead. The movie made it sound like a superstitious thing, but I know that couldn't have been the only reason. Thanks for sharing, as usual! 😊

[@BigGator5]

You're welcome, to both of you. Go with God and Be Safe from Evil. 😎 👍

[@evanirvana500]

Stole the words right out of my mouth regarding the photography of the Dead! LOL I'm usually the one that ends up pointing that out whenever I watch the reactions to this movie. It's such a great movie! I will add a couple other little facts about Victorian days and their funny little attitudes about death. Mirrors would be covered in case the sole of the deceased was in the mirror. And people who had died in the home would be taken out feet first because they were afraid that the deceased would reach out and grab them and take them with them to the underworld. The majority of people died at home because very few people could afford a hospital. There are so many more children and those death photographs because so many kids died back then due to disease and germs because they really didn't know about that then. Tuberculosis was a big problem as was influenza, and possibly even things like e coli and things that are in the food because they wouldn't have had any idea about that then. Those wacky victorians!

[@leandroferraz3776]

Perhaps my all time fav movie! Great, great choice and reaction! 👏👏👏 - Grace's scream right at the beginning is not an ordinary nightmare. It's the realisation of what she has done to her children and herself. - In the scene where Grace is loading the shotgun for the first time, she can be seen pausing in a recollective moment after she slams the breach shut. This is most likely due to her faint realization of deja vu, most likely alluding to her suicide by using the same gun - When the wandering Charles arrives home escorted by Grace, he meets Mrs. Mills, later revealed to be another person among the dead. When he approaches Grace in the fog and as he enters the room to greet his children, Charles' footsteps produce a sound not unlike the clanking of chains - which Anne had previously mentioned is a tell-tale trait of ghosts. - Anne dressing the white ghostly dress is a clue to her condition

[@henryellow]

Thanks for pointing out these subtle details 😊👍🏻

[@davidfox5383]

I love love love this film, and I love rewatching it! Such amazing performances by everyone. And your reaction was downright delightful. The part that creeps me out the most is the book of photographs. Apparently a few of those pictures were real pictures of dead people from long ago, mixed in with a few fake ones. The twist completely got me, too.... Just breathtaking. And this is shortly after another well-known film had a similar twist... But this still got me!

[@jgarofalo8813]

I always feel sorry for poor Victor.

[@henryellow]

Thankfully, Victor ended up with a better ending than most horror movie victims.

[@jgarofalo8813]

@@henryellow very true!

[@brianmonks8657]

The servants disappeared because they had no job there after the family died. It's possible that they walked out earlier because they couldn't deal with Grace's instability any more and that was the final straw that pushed her over the edge, but I think they just left because the house was closed.

[@zammmerjammer]

Anne says the servants left first "and then it happened." We've seen that Grace is a bit... difficult... to deal with. The servants walking out and leaving her all alone must have felt like the final light going out on what was going to be a completely suffocating existence (puns intended).

[@tommiller4895]

This movie shows what a great Actress Nicole Kidman is. The Dad, Charles was played by Christopher Eccleston who played Dr. Who.

[@myfriendisaac]

GREAT breakdown at the end! You really appreciated this fantastic movie (1 of my favorites). 🍿🎬👻

[@dionysiacosmos]

This is my second favorite thriller/ suspense ( outside Sci Fi ), ghost story. My favorite is Marrowbone. There's a Spanish movie called The Orphanage. It was directed by G. Del Toro. The writer for the Orphanage wrote and directed Marrowbone. It keeps you guessing from beginning to end. You pick good ones!

[@henryellow]

I'll add them to my list. Thanks for your suggestions! 😊

[@retrotero76]

Spanish horror movies are really good. Lots of heart in them. I recommend another one: The Orphanage. I love horror movies that are also dramatic.

[@AceMoonshot]

Excellent recommendation.

[@henryellow]

The kid looks scary in the movie poster... Well, I'll add it to my list for now 😂 thanks for the suggestion!

[@retrotero76]

@@henryellow Can’t spoil, but you will not be disappointed. It is a mystery film.

[@TheTarcaina]

​@@henryellow Don't be scared, it's worthy. It's pretty in a kind of way (at least to me). I just love that movie.

[@donkfail1]

OK, lets not make Henry watch any more scary movies. This one made me think of a question in the book The Ghosts of Sleath by James Herbert: Can a ghost haunt a ghost? It's hard to find new twists in ghost stories. This movie was successful.

[@henryellow]

That would be near impossible during my Halloween month reactions 😂. Can a ghost haunt a ghost? I think it's possible, if one ghost doesn't realize his own death. Or if the other ghost is scarier.

[@donkfail1]

@@henryellow I salute your commitment. I love scary stuff, but I appreciate your suffering for us.

[@donkfail1]

@@henryellow Spoiler for The Ghosts of Sleath: ... So stop here if you plan to read the book. ... It's a very scary ghost. Someone mistreating another in life, and when they are both dead it continues. Herbert did a good job at twisting horror stories to a new level.

[@henryellow]

Well then, I might check out some books by James Herbert one day 👍🏻

[@donkfail1]

@@henryellow But be warned; the writing style is a little odd. He used to be a reporter for a sensational British newspaper. And his early works read very much as a tabloid article when describing some things, especially physical violence. He gets better though. He has said that he was a fan of horror writing, but thought there was a lack of stories in his own taste. So one day he decided he had to write them himself. So if it's fine literature to refine your own language you are looking for, I think you are peeking into the wrong haunted house. But he's a story maker with a strange imagination. Also; his reporter work has given him some inspiration. One really gruesome book of him had a bonus chiller effect when I learned that a lot of it was based on reality.

[@treefeathers]

I've always wondered - Charles left the battlefield to find his family to say goodbye (he said). If he'd found them alive and well, as he expected, would he then have been able to move on, go to heaven or the next world or wherever? But finding them all dead was such a horrifying trauma that it caused him to get stuck here as well, and so he had to return to the battlefield where he died?

[@catherinelw9365]

He’s haunting the battlefield as a ghost.

[@henryellow]

I wonder if Charles even realizes he's dead. He doesn't even know the war is over.

[@cheekintenders]

Idk if this was intentional, but it makes more sense why Anne is hesitant about her mother, and Nicholas isn't, because from the lay out of Anne and Nicholas' bedroom, Grace would've came in and killed Nicholas first and Anne would've witnessed it because she sleeps on the side of the bed furthest from the door. So Nicholas isn't just in denial that his mom did something so awful to them- he literally doesn't remember it (the pillow would've been over his head) and he just think Anne's making up another story.

[@henryellow]

It's very likely Nicholas was smothered in his sleep, while Anne struggled against her mother.

[@YvetteKeyser]

This is so exciting!! I love this movie.

[@AceMoonshot]

Henry. You're the best.

[@Keyboardje]

This movie is like... "I see dead people. They don't know they're dead. They only see what they want to see"... :D

[@brian554xx]

Blew Grace's mind too.

[@TheTarcaina]

I fvcking loved your reaction, because I felt represented ahahahah. I do the same sh1t with the hands and sometimes i take off my phones, but I like this movies (except if they have dolls 😅). The others, The Sixth sense,Alien, and A quiet place( the last two more into the thriller side) are some of my favorite movies. The thing is also so good, the practical effects are so amazing. It (the chapter 1) is good too.

[@henryellow]

I've reacted to The Sixth Sense and Alien too. I haven't watched A Quiet Place or The Thing yet though.

[@TheTarcaina]

@@henryellow a quiet place is more a thriller, you will be tense all the time. Not só much horror. But so well done. The thing is a classic, amazing practical effects, like Alien. Really good. So I am going to watch those reactions too.

[@jkirtleyheacting]

Love this film. Great twist.

[@donkfail1]

This damn movie did me dirty. The door slamming in her face made me jump. Even on a second viewing not long after it got me.

[@henryellow]

They didn't overdo the jump scares in this movie, which is good (for me) 😂

[@YvetteKeyser]

I just know that you’ll most likely have it figured out early on. I am quite sure you may notice things that it takes a couple of watches for others to piece together.

[@evanirvana500]

If you believe in ghosts which I do because I have seen them that there is an overlap between the living and the dead that happens all the time. It's just some people don't see him and some people can. And some ghosts want to be seen and some don't. My opinion is the mother is keeping the children there especially the daughter, because the daughter was very smart. If there is anything that's going to happen in the future I would imagine the daughter will cross over at some time first.

[@henryellow]

Although I've never personally seen a ghost, I know people who can glimpse them. Somehow, I doubt Anne (daughter) will cross over without Nicholas (son).

[@contacluj758]

I don't think the children were sick while alive. The light affected them when they became ghosts

[@retrotero76]

This was my fastest click ever.

[@MarcusCiambelli]

You are the most scared reactor I've ever seen. 😅😂😅

[@henryellow]

Horror movies are my kryptonite. I guess I haven't watched enough horror to build up a resistance to it 😂

[@kevindobson6568]

Can you please react to the horror movie Stigmata Starring Patricia Arquette Please ❤😊

[@henryellow]

I'll add it to my list. Thanks for your suggestion! 😊

[@mrich1]

WHY??? Why would you take your headphones off?? If you dont like scary movies then dont watch them. AS SIMPLE AS THAT. You can have any explanation you want but if you dont experience the movie the way it is meant to be watched then why watch it??

[@henryellow]

That's how I watch them. That's how I enjoy them. I enjoyed this movie too 😊