The Others

The Others, 2001, is a film that i watched, far too young alone in my granny's house in the countyside, already terrified of the dark that has haunted me to this day. Directed and written by  Alejandro Amenábar (Open Your Eyes, released in the UK on an estimated budget of
$17, 000, 000 was a highly succesful Spanish film achieving a worlwide gross of $209,700,000.
The film is about a woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children  and becomes convinced that her family home is haunted. This thriller-horror hybrid was produced by Cruise/Wagner Productions, Sociedad General de Cine, Les Producciones del Escorpion S.L. Dimension Films, and the uncredited Canal +, Lucky Red and Miramax Films- so a mixture of Spanish and other European companies. It was distributed highly through manly Europe but also in Japan and the USA. Althuough directed and writen by a Spanaird it was highly popular in France as well and also managed to crack America, this may have had to do with Nicole Kidmans' previous work in the popular Moulin Rouge. It recieved the certification of UK 12, there was nearly no Profanity or Violence and gore but there was however several Frightening/ Intense scenes. The idea of children possesed or haunted is very intresting and although i did not imediately think of this film while we were working out the narrative of our thriller there are certain links between the two pieces and is another potential insight into what is darkening our child.