History Film / TheOthers

* BreakTheHaughty: Grace is very adamant and almost smug in her rock solid belief in Catholic doctrine. She completely breaks when [[spoiler: she realizes she is ''in '' the afterlife and it is not at all what the her faith promised her.]] When Anne asks why, she quietly responds that she simply does not know.

* MirrorScare: Played with. When Grace begins ripping the sheets off the furniture in the junk room, she comes face to face with herself in a mirror. No ghost is behind her, but she watches the door close which she ''absolutely'' closed when she entered the room. Nothing is behind her in the mirror, but something absolutely was and just left.

* MirrorScare: Played with. When Grace begins ripping the sheets off the furniture in the junk room, she comes face to face with herself in a mirror. No ghost is behind her, but she watches the door close which she ''absolutely'' closed when she entered the room. Nothing is behind her on the mirror, but something absolutely was and just left.

* MirrorScare: Played with. When Grace begins ripping the sheets off the furniture in the junk room, she comes face to face with herself in a mirror. No ghost is behind her, but she watches the door close which she ‘’’absolutely’’’ closed when she entered the room. Nothing is behind her on the mirror, but something absolutely was and just left.

* MirrorScare: Completely averted. There is a significant use of mirrors and reflections throughout the film, which may lead some viewers to believe that a MirrorScare is going to be set up, but it isn't.

* MamaBear: Grace.

''The Others'' is a 2001 supernatural horror film directed by Alejandro Amenábar, and starring Creator/NicoleKidman, Creator/ChristopherEccleston and Fionnula Flanagan. It became the first English-language film ever to receive the Best Film Award at Spain's Goya Awards.

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

* PerspectiveFlip: [[spoiler: Grace charges "the others" table, shaking it and tearing up the papers in an effort to prove that she and the children are alive. We then see it from the living persons POV where these things happen on their own.]]

* FriendlyEnemy: While their relationship is mostly offscreen, Anne and Victor appear to be at the very least civil enemies. Even though one of them is a ghost the other isn't scared, and even though they don't seem to like each other much, Anne says that they regularly hold conversations with each other about the going-ons in the house anyway.

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

* SharingRoomStrife: Creator/NicoleKidman's two children share a room, despite the fact that they are of opposite sexes and they and their mother live alone in an absolutely huge house. This allows for some scary scenes where the older one deliberately scares her six-year-old brother.

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** Coupled with HarsherInHindsight is the twice-said [[spoiler:"Stop breathing like that... Stop breathing!"]]

* InfantImmortality: Subverted - when Grace is flipping through the "book of the dead", there are photographs of deceased children as well as adults. [[spoiler: Also, as it turns out, both Anne and Nicholas are dead, having been smothered to death.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The "book of the dead." It's filled with photographs of the corpses of recently deceased people; a practice that's supposed to help bring them back as spirits.

* CreepyGood: As the film goes on, [[spoiler:the servants, Mrs. Mills in particular, gradually get more and more sinister]], leading up to the [[TheReveal revelation]] that [[spoiler: they're ghosts]]. Ultimately, however, they mean no harm and only want to help Grace and her children.

* FutureShadowing: Grace's reaction when she first [[spoiler:picks up the rifle]] when attempting to hunt down the "intruders" foreshadows the film's TwistEnding.

* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:"We're not dead! WE'RE NOT DEAD!"]]

* OhCrap: When Anne and Nicholas realise that they aren't alone when they are hiding in the cupboard.

* SmallSecludedWorld: Used to make the presence of the "others" more eerie. The entire film takes place on a very empty island estate, occupied only by the Stewart family and three new servants. To add to this effect, almost every time we see outside it's misty, creating a bigger sense of isolation.

* SpookyPhotographs: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography memento mori]] - pictures taken of very recently deceased corpses.

* ThousandYardStare: Charles does this a lot, presumably because of the horrors he's seen while fighting in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

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

The film is set on the British Channel Island of 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 as 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.

* BrokenBird: Lydia, who has been left mute due to an unspecified [[spoiler: (until the ending)]] trauma, and is generally very [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] and constantly looks miserable. Grace also qualifies, as she's been through WorldWarII, her husband is missing and presumed dead, and has been stuck raising her young children in darkness and isolation.

* ThousandYardStare: Charles does this a lot, presumably because of the horrors he's seen while fighting in WorldWarII.

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Grace and both of her children at the end.]]

* CaliforniaDoubling: The film is set in Jersey, but the exterior shots of the mansion were filmed in Spain.