The Others (2001) Has A *DIFFERENT* Take of the Genre! - First Time Watching - Movie Reaction/Review 

Just FYI, guys, sun allergy is a real thing. It's called photosensitivity, and it's usually a side effect of medication, but more rarely can also be a symptom of a medical condition. I have it from an autoimmune disease. So if we ever do meet, please don't throw holy water on me ;)

Dumb was the proper terms. You may have heard someone say a person is deaf, dumb and blind, meaning they can’t hear, speak or see, Helen Keller was all 3.

A ghost story told from the perspective of the Ghosts = brilliant

The word "dumb" is also a synonym for muteness, one that was far more common at the time of the film's setting. It has since became overshadowed by the "lacking intelligence" definition of the word, and so the muteness meaning has basically fallen out of use. It wouldn't have had the same degree rudeness or intelligence slander you associate with it in context of describing Lydia's condition, though it was a more informal description.

Not Vitamin C, Vitamin D

What sucks is that Bertha and the other 2 are still freaking working even after death!

I find it way more enjoyable to just believe whatever the movie tells me without trying to “figure it out”. Nothing against those who view the movies like a detective, but I love not knowing the twist until it’s spoon fed to me. If the movie is good enough, THEN I’ll watch it again and laugh at myself for all the clues I missed.

In these old estates, the help had their quarters close to the areas they worked, like the grooms had their rooms near the stables and the gardener near the shed.

Photographs of the dead are something people really did do, not necessarily that they would go on living but photography was rare enough that you might not have another picture of your loved one. You might save locks of hair, too.

The mother went after the kids while they were sleeping. She smothered Nicholas first & he didn’t know what she had done. Anne woke up while her brother was being kiIIed so she was alert & aware when the mother went after her. Anne was too young to understand that they were dead but she knew her mother had harmed her & her brother. That’s why she kept hinting their mother had done something horrible & that’s why she was so angry & confrontational with the mother.

In the 1940's and before that the term "dumb" did not mean stupid it meant mute. Nichole's character was not saying that with the intent to be mean but just calling her condition as it was called back then after the 1940's the term mute became the common term if I am not mistaken.

There is an actual genetic disorder where children are allergic to the sun and will develop blisters and most times die quite young of skin cancer.

Nobody speak about that theres was a time when the 3 servants where ghost in the house while Grace and the children were living....

Those pictures of the dead were called momento mori . Sometimes, it was the only picture of a loved one the family may have had. Some people collect these pictures and I have seen them for sale at antique shows and stores.

That was sadly a very underrated film. I do not believe it ever got the accolades that it deserved. It very much reminds me of masterfully designed films such as M Night Shyamalans The Sixth Sense. It is far and in between that you find a film anymore that combines the real tension , noir , and ambiance of a Gothic Horror film from the past , that gives us a well written and novel new approach. In this case the concept may not be entirely new , but it was so well crafted that it keeps all but the most observant in a stew nearly till the end.

Your jump scares are adorable

In life, they had a real condition that causes their skin to blister with minimal sunlight. I believe it’s called Polymorphous light eruption. Other people actually have that same “allergy” to water… including their own sweat. In death, they have no physical body so the light no longer hurts them.

That is the servant’s house too and they can’t leave; so they have to get along with the mom and children. They probably couldn’t just bust out that she killed her kids and herself. I don’t think she could handle it. Mrs Mills got tired of being nice and trying to be subtle.

The father was killed in the war (ww2). He was wandering for years. seems to have PTSD He probably can’t stay in the house. He must wander. Grace and the kids will stay because she can’t let go. She also clearly was traumatized by the war, Charles’ death and being so alone and with kids that can’t go outside. Her murder-suicide was a desperate act. I think they will stay because she holds onto what could’ve been had Charles not gone off to war.

I've always felt this movie was inspired by The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, a classic horror story from 1908.

PS: The mother of Victor was Catelyn Stark❤

I had a customer at a job years ago who was allergic to sunlight.

27:10I was thinking these kids probably had porphyria which is much more serious. It is a disease that a lot of people had back in the day whenever a lot of vampire legends were evolving. It was really bad. Porphyria is also likely the reason that a few of the monarchs over the years were "mad," because it does something to your blood and affects your whole entire body and mind.

Antes de nada, disculpad que escriba en español. La alergia a la luz es una enfermedad real, y los niños la sufrían cuando estaban vivos. La madre se limitaba a seguir con la rutina. No intentaba retenerlos en ninguna parte.

my sister texted me after watching this movie for the first time and she was like "i had totally guessed the plot twist and then the movie was like 'shut up b*tch' and cracked my head open from behind with the second plot twist"

Cam lmfao. You don’t get vitamin C from the sun. That’s vitamin D. Hahahaha

Loved this movie, added it to my dvd collection. Yes I’m old like that. DVDs are the best when wifi is down!👻💜👻

catholics traditionally have their kids wear white for their first communion (the part of mass when they eat a wafer and drink wine), and at the time girls would've worn a veil as well which is why Anne looked like a little mini bride! source: i'm a cradle catholic

the twist was not that they were dead but that the mother killed her children.

Because of the ads when this came out, when I saw it in theaters as soon as they knocked on the door I knew what was happening with the main characters but the ending is so well done that knowing that doesn't ruin it.

No comments about the husband being played by Christopher Eccleston, Doctor Who #9?

Real smart of Cam to nail it mid way through the movie! I'd like to suggest some other thrillers from the 2000s that don't get many reactions here on YT: Secret Window, The Skeleton Key and Dead Silence! Also in the horror genre there's Jacob's Ladder and the dark horror comedy The House That Jack Built, also under the radar of most reactors!

Nicole Kidman shot Moulin Rouge first and then The Others; back-to-back. She turned it down once or twice because she said it was "too dark" after Moulin Rouge but eventually changed her mind. I'm glad she did. Both are phenomenal movies.

You nailed it 👍 - almost in the first 10 mins you said 'are they all dead?' I thought that was quick! I came across an interesting theory that someone had about her husband Charles the other day. My theory is. Charles died in the war, and is a ghost he remains because the desperately wants to see his wife and children before he moves into heaven or wherever he goes. So he's been trying to find his way home and some how manages it - and then woah! He finds they are ghosts too and dead, that's not what he expected he wanted to 'see' them. So he's like 'oh dear, that's odd why are they dead, then he finds out - and is like oh dear she killed the kids and herself, that's not good. So he then ups and moves onto the afterlife - sad that his wife and kids are dead and he didn't see them alive. Nicholas says at the very end 'daddy died in the war didn't he?' and Grace says 'yes' pretty much confirming his ghost status. However my friend has a different and very interesting theory - which is: Charles wasn’t dead at all and was simply a grieving visitor who the current occupants allowed to stay the night, he visits explaining to the new owners that he used to live in the house and lost his family and they take pity on him and let him stay for a bit. Gasp!!! He is wandering about outside and comes across Grace in fog and is like 'holy shiiiiiiit' it's the ghost of my wife which is why he acts like he does seemingly suffering from PTSD but really he's found himself in limbo. If this were true then in retrospect that would make Charles’ sudden appearance more significant than any other foreshadowing occurrence in the film. This gives this great film yet another poignant layer. I do think he is a ghost as there are too many clues that he died in the war - but I really do like this theory too. The other thing, when you watch a period film and it's very clear it's a period film and language and words are used that seem odd or out of place to you, you need to view and interpret this 'through' the context of the film and the period it is set. Dumb was at that time a very common word for mute, but you don't need to explicitly know this already to understand from the context and the conversations the word 'dumb' is clearly referencing her mutism and inability to speak and is not being used in the more modern and derogatory way that it is now - dumb was a common word for mute which over time disappeared to be replaced by mute. But the clues are all in the context of the scenes for you to understand this.

Definition of dumb: temporarily unable or unwilling to speak.

"Dumb" originally meant mute, not stupid. Funny watching young guys watch movies about olden days. It wasn't an insult.

That's tough... Knowing the plot in advance and pretend that you don't. :)

See Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm and also Invaders.

OK Gen Z. For historical pieces you need to set aside the flawed ideology of presentism and try to view what's happening and bring said in the time period it's set in. At that time dumb was the politically correct term for mute. Please set aside the judgementalism

Thanks to Cameron and Isaiah! 😨 Kudos to writer/director Alejandro Amenábar.

This movie is so creepy, but you guys broke the tension a lot with your faces and laughter. "Sometimes I bleed." From orifaces or...

Y’all should definitely watch “The Train to Busan”. 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟🚉💺🚊🛤️⚾️🧢 🧟‍♀️ Great Zombie movie

You mean vitamin D, not C.

So many beautiful women are not taken seriously. Nicole kidman is as talented as she is beautiful. See her in MONSTER. she was nominated as best actress. She won for MOSTER.

Cam wit the dub!!!!! Great call my G

Dean Koontz wrote a couple novels about a protagonist that was allergic to light. The first one was called Fear Nothing. The second one was called Seize the Night. If you want to see another movie that's a psychological thriller about ghosts, The Sixth Sense is really well done.

You don't even know your own language? "Dumb" means mute, too

Damn you guessed that quick

I remember watching this in the movie theater back then. yeah it was really scarry. The signs were everywhere and in the end you can connect all the dots, that is the beauty of this Movie. Writen and directed by Alejandro Amenabar, a spanish film maker. He has lots of great movies, and he was considerbly young when he did this one.

I hate when there’s multiple reactors ruin it by telling the other what they think is going to happen next, let the movie play out for them!

I love this movie 😄😍 I first watched it with 12 years old when it came out. So creepy and sad, too!

It's always funny to watch these kid reactors freak out over the gardner staying in the "shed". It's a difference in culture. What they call a shed we call a cabin or cottage

Well done Cam!

Had you not read that it was about ghosts I'm not as sure you would have guessed it all :)

Yo cam got it straight away nice one boys…

The original meaning of the word 'dumb' was simply 'unable to speak'. As in, 'deaf and dumb'. It didn't mean they were deficient mentally, as it's used today.

Cam, you are most certainly not an idiot. You figured the entire movie out in a frame of 20 minutes. 😂

The Others was a movie that had not one, not two, but 3 different twists in the 3rd act of the film. It’s a film you have to be patient with and wait for the payoffs.

Dang it! I could tell Cam was putting it together early lolol Zay was extra hilarious this episode 😂

A great epic movie with Nicole Kidman is "Far And Away" (co-staring Tom Cruise)

I'm a huge horror fan, and this is truly a classic. None of us knew they were dead. Today, it's easier to guess because a lot of films copied this. (Did you recognize Catelyn Stark as Victor's mother?) Nicole Kidman is one of the most interesting superstar actresses in terms of how she curates her career. That's crazy that y'all don't know her work! I guess I'm old. She's a GOAT. Just way too much plastic surgery now. 2001 was a GOATED year for cinema - not only this and Moulin Rouge, but Donnie Darko and, in my opinion, the greatest film ever made, Mullholand Drive.

This is one of my fav horrors/thriller can't wait to watch it but il have to wait a few hours as I found this on our holiday, the night before my daughters 5th birthday, as I'm about to go to sleep. You guys will have to wait a few hours so I can really enjoy the whole experience of you watching this movie. I need popcorn, I need a bigger screen...... One must not take such things lightly, oosh this is going to be good

I wonder if the kids really were photo sensitive to light when they were alive and between losing her husband and never being able to see sunlight made the Mother go mad from isolation.

Death photos were common but not necessarily for superstitious reasons like they said in the film. That explanation just fit the narrative better. In reality, in the old days photographs were hard to take and expensive, so people would die and their families may not have any photos of them. A dead picture is not ideal but may be their last chance to keep a record of what they looked like. (And dead subjects don’t have a hard time keeping still for the long exposure)

Great reaction! It's one of those movies that really have to be seen twice to get everything. Identity and Marrowbone are a couple of others, and some like The Usual Suspects aren't even horror!

"Birth" is another wacky-premise film that Kidman was amazing in. Give it a look.

try "the 6th sense"

There is actually a rare condition (its in the genes so brother and sister have a better chance of both having it) where a person is allergic to the sunlight, so I dont think the mother was lying about the kids having it.

There actually is a disease that makes you allergic to sunlight. Charles didn’t go wondering off. He had to go back to where he died. Just like the mother and the kids, they all died in that house and the can never leave it. Neither child had their first communion, so they would be “in limbo.” The mother killed herself, which is a mortal sin so she cannot be accepted into Heaven, according to Catholic teachings. I thought it was really cool that we got to see a ghost story from their point of view, especially since they didn’t know they were dead in the first place. Did you notice when the mother cocked the gun, she had a de ja vu look on her face? She didn’t know why, she just knew it was something she couldn’t fully remember. Helen Keller was consider “deaf and dumb.” That’s what people who couldn’t speak back then was called. That was before the politically correct word police began.

Practical Magic

If I remember correctly Tom Cruise was one of the producers of this movie. Whom Nicole kidman was divorcing at the time

The reason for her migraines were because she shot herself in the head. That's also why she woke up screaming.

Was hoping you two would react to this one. I saw this in theaters and it did not disappoint

If I had a penny for every famous movie where the twist is that the heroes were dead the whole time, I'd have quite a few pennies actually

This reaction just popped out on my main page, haven't seen you guys before. That being said, you had me at the first ''Lord have mercy!'' lmao, keep up the good work!

Great reaction to a great movie, but i cannot stpo thinking that it's kinda sad that today people are so concerned with trying to resolve the movie as if that was the main goal, instead of let the movie reveal itself for the audience, like hearing a story that someone it's telling to you.

We've been robbed 😂

Yall need to react to Donnie Darko, I think you guys would really really enjoy it.

So.. Because her husband said "sometimes I bleed" does that mean he was not yet dead and maybe being brought back to life?

6:25 vitamin D lol

34:54 We’ll, at least you didn’t predict _this_ part of the twist. Such a shame… I was looking forward to this reaction, but it ended up a bit of a non-event. 🤷‍♂️

These guys are on a roll lately

Starting the spooky season a tad early, but I'm not mad about it. Hope you boys do Prince of Darkness for Halloween!

Another Nicole Kidman spooky movie - "The Golden Compass." It's based on a book that's part 1 of a three part book series collection titled "His Dark Materials" by author - Philip Pullman. The real title of the first book in series is "Northern Lights." It was renamed "The Golden Compass" for it's North American distribution. Book two is titled "The Subtle Knife" and book three is titled "The Amber Spyglass" Pullman also created second series operating inside the same Northern Lights Universe "Lyra's Oxford", "Once Upon a Time in the North", "The Collectors" and "Serpentine." Pullman further created a third Series called "The Book of Dust" composed of books "La Belle Sauvage", "The Secret Commonwealth" and book three - which is still in production. Note - Pullman's books have received heavy opposition from certain Christian groups - especially pushing for their banning.

One of only two reactors I've seen guess correctly about what's going on, the other one guessed within the first couple minutes of the movie.

Good guess guys, you really followed it and really got it, i never saw it coming

Good choice, highly underrated movie.

You should watch The Sixth Sense (1999) too with Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment i hope he is still alive we haven't heard about him from a very long time ago, he was my favorite child actor.

I've been waiting for you two to react to this wonderful film! Yay! Shine on both of you ✨️

oh man this is going to be EPIC!!!

Great choice! This movie is a masterpiece! That's the problem with watching this movie more than 20 years after its release: many movies and TV shows have copied the twist incessantly, making it easier to guess that they are ***d, almost obvious. I was so lucky to have seen it when it first came out! But no one ever guesses the mother's role in all of this. 😁

The act of taking pictures of the Dead was actually a Victorian thing. But it was a standard practice. Or at least for people who could afford it. You have to remember that in those days cameras were fairly new. So people didn't have a lot of pictures hanging around of their kids or their family members and loved ones etc. and in those days also many kids died of numerous diseases. So did people but kids especially. That's why if you look at Victorian death photos you will see that there is a preponderance of children. But in many cases that is the only picture of the family or the parents are going to have. How absolutely sad is that? Maybe they thought the soul lived on in the picture, but generally speaking it was because they just didn't have the money to have ever taken any other picture. If you think that was weird another Victorian practice was that the dead would be taken out of a house but it had to go out feet first so that the dead can't turn their heads back and look at people and possess them and take them with them. They also covered mirrors because they felt the soul was in the mirror. Be thankful you live in the time that you do fellas.

Great reaction, as always! Enjoy those subs Cam 😅

Purgatory is remaining on the job after dying

You guys should check out her acting in “Boy Erased” lovely film

You NEED to watch "The Forgotten" (2004), with Julianne Moore.

@cam&zay Nicole Kidman is queen 🔥 More suggestions of her movies to watch/react: Stepford Wives Cold Mountain Dogville Bangkok Hilton

Nice job, Cam! I think you got it faster than anyone I've ever seen

Cam guessed it way sooner than the filmmakers wanted :)

You need to watch 'Australia' - another Kidman movie and from the director of 'Moulin Rouge!'.