History Film / TheOthers

* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Careful viewers will realize that the ghosts of the servants were responsible for Grace's madness, because [[ISeeDeadPeople she could see them]].]]

* FridgeBrilliants: [[spoiler: Careful viewers will realize that the ghosts of the servants were responsible for Grace's madness, because [[ISeeDeadPeople she could see them]].]]

* FridgeBrillians: [[spoiler: Careful viewers will realize that the ghosts of the servants were responsible for Grace's madness, because [[ISeeDeadPeople she could see them]].]]

* BittersweetEnding

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Several. One such moment occurs during the ending, when [[spoiler:Anne and Nicholas bask in the sunlight - something they were never able to do when they were alive - and regard it with wonder and joy.]]
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The part when Anne, after getting tired of her mother saying she'll go to Limbo for lying, says she read the Bible and knows that only unbaptized children go to Limbo. While she was punished later on, it was awesome and funny, watching a child revealing her overly-religious mother to be a liar in return for being accused of being such. Also proves Anne is way more intelligent than usual children with religious parents in other movies; children in these cases are usually limited and believe everything their parents say on God and the Bible to keep them under control, like Nicholas, but Anne proves to be an exception. And just by acting like an authoritarian mother and punishing Anne, Grace just proved herself inferior as a mother.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The famous "I am your daughter!" scene, the attic scene and the scene with [[spoiler:the old woman bursting into the cupboard.]] Also, the opening scene with a closeup on Grace shrieking as she wakes up from her nightmare.
** Not to mention the way the [[TwistEnding final reveal]] is done. The way the line [[spoiler:"Is that how she ''killed'' you?"]] is delivered is truly chilling, as well as shocking.
** Also, the scene with Anne and Nicholas in their bedroom being visited by Victor. Imagine, every terror you would have as a child in the dark of your own bedroom realized, where the bedsheets do not protect you. *shiver*

* {{Squick}}: The "book of the dead" Grace finds, filled with photographs of corpses posed for portraits. What's amazing is that the film ''downplays'' this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography very real practice]] -- In the film, all of the corpses are posed either alone or with others of their kind, with their eyes closed as if to be asleep. In real life, most such photographs involved living family members -- and their eyes were [[UncannyValley very much open]].

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Grace, in a fit of madness, smothered her two children and then shot herself. She and the children are therefore stuck in their manor, never aging, never changing, just living each and every day knowing they are dead. Everything Grace knew about God and her religion, including the afterlife, has been destroyed by the absense of a life waiting for them beyond death. Charles was killed in the war and his wife and children may never see him again. Also, Grace truly loved her children despite her fit of madness and now has to spend the rest of her afterlife with the knowledge that she killed them and is responsible for their current predicament.]] Wow.

Bears uncanny resemblance to the ''SilentHill'' franchise, namely SilentHill2. Grace wakes to a ''perpetually foggy'' landscape and battles "supernatural" elements while bearing the guilt of [[hottip:spoiler):smothering her children with ''pillows.'']]

Bears uncanny resemblance to the ''SilentHill'' franchise, namely SilentHill2. Grace wakes to a ''perpetually foggy'' landscape and battles "supernatural" elements while bearing the guilt of [[hottip:*):smothering her children with ''pillows.'']]

!!'''Warning! The following tropes are inherent spoilers:'''

Bears uncanny resemblance to the ''SilentHill'' franchise, namely SilentHill2. Grace wakes to a ''perpetually foggy'' landscape and battles "supernatural" elements while bearing the guilt of [[spoiler:smothering her children with ''pillows'']].

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]
** [[spoiler: [Grace fires the shotgun at the servants.] "Don't trouble yourself, ma'am. Tuberculosis finished us off, more than half a century ago."]]

* [[spoiler:{{Familicide}}]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The famous "I am your daughter!" scene, the attic scene and the scene with [[spoiler:the old woman bursting into the cupboard. Also, the opening scene with a closeup on Grace shrieking as she wakes up from her nightmare]].

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Averted hard.]]
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:"We're not dead! WE'RE NOT DEAD!"]]
** [[spoiler: "This house is ours. This house is ours."]]

* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler:The old woman.]]
* TheReveal: Not only are [[spoiler:Mrs. Mills, Mr. Tuttle and Lydia all ghosts]], but so are [[spoiler:Grace and her family]], and the [[spoiler:"others" are, in fact, living people who have bought the house and, none too pleased about the fact that it is haunted, are using the old woman to try and contact the spirits of Grace and her children]].

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Grace, in a fit of madness, smothered her two children and then shot herself. She and the children are therefore stuck in their manor, never aging, never changing, just living each and every day knowing they are dead. Everything Grace knew about God and her religion, including the afterlife, has been destroyed by the absense of a life waiting for them beyond death. Charles was killed in the war and his wife and children may never see him again. Also, Grace truly loved her children despite her fit of madness and now has to spend the rest of her afterlife with the knowledge that she killed them and is responsible for their current predicament.]] Wow.
* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror: ALL of the characters are ghosts, except for the people the daughter keeps seeing. (They are alive).]]
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Grace and the kids have been dead all along.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Is that how she ''killed'' you?"]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: [ShellShockedVeteran Charles] is [DoctorWho The Doctor!]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The part when Anne, after getting tired of her mother saying she'll go to Limbo for lying, says she read the bible and knows that only unbatized children go to Limbo. While she was punished later on, it was awesome and funny, watching a children revealing her overly-religious mother to be a liar in return for being accused of being such. Also proves Anne is way more intelligent than usual children with religious parents in other movies; children in these cases are usually limited and believe everything their parents say on God and Bible to keep them under control, like Nicholas, but Anne proves to be an exception. And just by acting like an authoritarian mother and punishing Anne, Grace just proved herself inferior as a mother.

* WeakenedByTheLight: because of a genetic disorder. (Xeroderma pigmentosum) the kids can not be exposed to sunlight or they might die.[[spoiler: Or so they think, they are already dead, so it can't hurt them any more.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The part when Anne, after getting tired of her mother saying she'll go to Limbo for lying, says she read the bible and knows that only unbatized children go to Limbo. While she was punished later on, it was awesome and funny, watching a children revealing her overly-religious mother to be a liar in return for being accused of being such. Also proves Anne is way more intelligent than usual children with religious parents in other movies; children in these cases are usually limited and believe everything their parents say on God and Bible to keep them under control, like Nicholas, but Anne proves to be an exception. And just by acting like an authoritary mother and punishing Anne, Grace just proved herself inferior as a mother.

The film is set in Jersey, in the immediate aftermath of WorldWarII, and follows devout Catholic Grace Stewart and her two young children, Anne and Nicholas, who both suffer from a rare disease which means that they cannot risk exposure to sunlight, or it will be fatal to them. The arrival of three servants coincides with a number of odd and increasingly disturbing events - disembodied voices, strange noises, and the children claiming to have seen several ghostly figures - causing Grace to fight to save her children while struggling to keep her sanity.

* MusicalSpoiler: Averted. During the "piano room" scene, the film's scary score increases in volume, leading the viewer to believe that something frightening is about to happen. It doesn't. After a minute or so of tenseness, however, the JumpScare does eventually happen - when there's no music playing.

* WeakenedByTheLight: because of a genetic disorder. (Xeroderma pigmentosum) the kids can not be exposed to sunlight or they might die.[[spoiler: or so they think, they are already dead, so it can't hurt them no more.]]

* MusicalSpoiler: Averted. During the "piano room" scene, the film's scary score increases in volume, leading the viewer to believe that something frightening is about it happen. It doesn't. After a minute or so of tenseness, however, the JumpScare does eventually happen - when there's no music playing.

''The Others'' is a 2001 supernatural horror film directed by Alejandro Amenábar, and starring Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, and Fionnula Flanagan. It became the first English spoken film ever to receive the Best Film Award at the Spain's Goya Awards.

* SmallSecludedWorld: the main character keeps her children locked in the house. And they don't grow up either, being her little children forever...

* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror: ALL of the characters are ghosts, except for the people the daughter keeps seeing. (They are alive).]]

* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror]]

* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror: ALL of the characters are ghosts, except for the people the daughter keeps seeing. (They are alive and well, but none too pleased that their new home appears to be haunted.)]]