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Genres:
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Horror /
Mystery /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Alejandro Amenábar
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Actors:
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Christopher Eccleston,
Renée Asherson,
Eric Sykes,
Alakina Mann,
James Bentley,
Gordon Reid,
Alexander Vince,
Ricardo López,
Aldo Grilo,
Nicole Kidman,
Fionnula Flanagan,
Elaine Cassidy,
Keith Allen,
Michelle Fairley
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)140.5
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Plot Summary:
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A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost vacant island in their huge mansion. Grace's husband is a soldier in WWII and Good manners has noted her husband up for dead. The aggregate seems peaceful during her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the prostitution, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle.
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It should have been a episode of x-files.
What a bore.
Why did Nicole do this film. I thought Eric Sykes was dead [his career is now].
For those of you with a fast forward button get the first ten minutes, ten minutes in the middle and the last ten minutes and save yourself some time for something more interesting.
Clever ghost story
This is a great scary movie, which turns the traditional haunted house story on its head. I would thoroughly recommend this for a Friday night with the sound up high and the lights down low.
Others, The
"...A luxuriously old-fashioned star vehicle custom conform to its topliner's strengths, which come across to sensational effect....A delicious goose-pimpler..."
Others, The
"...Mr. Amenabar's command of the syntax of panic is portentous....Ms. Kidman embodies this unstable mixture with a opinion that is in itself scary..."
Others, The
Open Your Eyes maestro Alejandro Amenáobstruct references such tastefully literate chillers of the past as The Haunting and The Innocents in this, his English-vernacular debut feature. Nicole Kidman gives a authoritative as a influentially strung woman living solitarily in a postwar Jersey mansion with her two feather-brained-sensitive children. It's when she engages a triptych of new servants that her shadowy adept in suddenly turns least creepy actually, as her daughter starts to take in "things" and they all know seemingly supernatural events. Relying on with one's eyes wide open old-fashioned bumps in the eventide for suspense and Gothic spookiness, Amenáforestall invokes the attitude of RKO dread producer Val Lewton — of Cat People illustrious...
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