The Others (2001 film)

The Others (Spanish: Los Otros) is a 2001 English-language Spanish[1] gothic supernatural psychological horror film. It was written, directed, and scored by Alejandro Amenábar. It stars Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes, Alakina Mann and James Bentley.

The Others
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlejandro Amenábar
Produced by
Written byAlejandro Amenábar
Starring
Music byAlejandro Amenábar
CinematographyJavier Aguirresarobe
Edited byNacho Ruiz Capillas
Production
companies
  • Las Producciones del Escorpion, SL
  • Sociedad General De Cine, S.A[1]
Distributed by
Release date
  • August 2, 2001 (2001-08-02) (US)
  • September 7, 2001 (2001-09-07) (Spain)
Running time
104 minutes[2]
Country
LanguageEnglish
Budget$17 million[3]
Box office$209.9 million[3]

The Others was theatrically released in the United States on August 2, 2001, by Dimension Films and in Spain on September 7, 2001, by Warner Sogefilms. The film was a box-office success, grossing over $209.9 million worldwide and received positive reviews from critics, with many praising Amenábar's direction and screenplay, as well as the musical score, atmosphere and Kidman's performance.

The film won seven Goya Awards, including awards for Best Film and Best Director. This was the first English-language film ever to receive the Best Film Award at the Goyas (Spain's national film awards), without a single word of Spanish spoken in it. The Others was nominated for six Saturn Awards including Best Director and Best Writing for Amenábar and Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Alakina Mann,[4] and won three: Best Horror Film, Best Actress for Kidman and Best Supporting Actress for Fionnula Flanagan. Kidman was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Drama and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, with Amenábar being nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, a rare occurrence for a horror film.

Cast

Production

The production crew visited Penshurst Place in Kent to film at the Lime Walk in the gardens. The Lime Walk was used in the scene where Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) went looking for a priest in the thick fog and instead met her husband who had returned from the war.[5] Filming locations are, among other spots, Palacio de los Hornillos in Las Fraguas, Cantabria, Northern Spain, and in Madrid.[6]

Reception

Box office

The Others was released August 10, 2001 in 1,678 theaters in the United States and Canada and grossed $14 million its opening weekend, ranking fourth at the box office. It stayed in fourth for three more weeks, expanding to more theaters. During the weekend of September 21–23, it was second at the box office, grossing $5 million in 2,801 theaters.[7] The film, which cost $17 million to produce, eventually grossed $96.5 million in the United States and Canada and $113.4 million in other countries, for a worldwide total gross of $209.9 million.[3]

Critical reception

Many critics praised the performances of the stars especially Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 83% approval rating based on 162 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus reads, "The Others is a spooky thriller that reminds us that a movie doesn't need expensive special effects to be creepy."[8] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 74 out of 100, based on 29 reviews.[9] Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars out of four, praising that "...Alejandro Amenábar has the patience to create a languorous, dreamy atmosphere, and Nicole Kidman succeeds in convincing us that she is a normal person in a disturbing situation and not just a standard-issue horror movie hysteric." However, he noted that "in drawing out his effects, Amenábar is a little too confident that style can substitute for substance."[10]

Although the film deals primarily with the spiritual interaction of ghosts with each other rather than with living humans, William Skidelsky of The Observer has suggested that it was inspired by the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw written by Henry James.[11]

Accolades
  • Goya Awards:
    • Best Cinematography (Javier Aguirresarobe)
    • Best Director (Alejandro Amenábar)
    • Best Editing (Nacho Ruiz Capillas)
    • Best Film
    • Best Production Design
    • Best Production Supervision
    • Best Original Screenplay (Alejandro Amenábar)
    • Best Sound
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards:
    • Best Actress (Nicole Kidman)
  • London Film Critics:
    • Best Actress of the Year (Nicole Kidman)
  • Online Film Critics:
    • Best Actress (Nicole Kidman)
    • Best Original Screenplay (Alejandro Amenábar)
  • Saturn Awards:

Planned Remake

In April 2020, it was announced that Sentient Entertainment had acquired the remake rights to the film. The company plans to revamp the film by setting it in the present day.[12]

  • Scary Movie 3 includes parodies of scenes from the film, particularly the famous "I am your daughter" sequence.
  • Hum Kaun Hai and Anjaane: The Unknown are Hindi remakes of The Others
  • Spanish Movie is a parody film that spoofs several successful Spanish horror/drama films, primarily The Others but also The Orphanage, Pan's Labyrinth, REC, and others.
  • Australian Band Elora Danan wrote a song about the film called "Thank God for Their Growth in Faith and Love" (a line seen on the children's blackboard in a later scene) which was a track on their debut EP We All Have Secrets.
  • Electronic music artist Venetian Snares uses a sample from the film in the song "Children's Limbo" on the album Find Candace.
  • Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror XXV includes a segment spoofing the film in which the Simpsons are haunted by their former selves from The Tracey Ullman Show.

See also

References
  1. "Otros, Los". Catálogo de Cinespañol. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  2. "THE OTHERS (12)". British Board of Film Classification. September 4, 2001. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  3. "The Others (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 26, 2007.
  4. The MovieWeb Team (June 13, 2002). "The 2001 Saturn Awards". MovieWeb.
  5. Kent Film Office (March 17, 2001). "Filmed in Kent: The Others (2001)". Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  6. "The Others (2001) Filming Locations - The Movie District". The Movie District. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  7. "The Others (2001) - Weekend Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 26, 2007.
  8. "The Others - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  9. "Others, The (2001): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved October 26, 2007.
  10. "The Others (2001)". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
  11. Skidelsky, Will. "Classics corner: The Turn of the Screw," The Observer (29 May 2010).
  12. Wiseman, Andreas. "Sentient Wins Remake Rights To Nicole Kidman Horror 'The Others', Alejandro Amenabar's Timely Self-Isolation Chiller Which Made $200M+". Deadline. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
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