Name: The Others
Released: 2001-08-02
Rating: 8.4

Sooner or later they’ll find you.

2001 · 101 min · Horror

8.4 Modest

Horror Mystery Thriller

Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

Country of origin: 🇺🇸 United States
Year: 2001

Studio: Cruise/Wagner Productions · Sogecine · Las Producciones del Escorpión

Trivia & behind the scenes

Origins

The Others was written, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar himself, showcasing his multiple creative roles on the project.

References

Critic William Skidelsky of The Observer suggested the film was inspired by Henry James's 1898 gothic novella The Turn of the Screw.

Filming

The film was shot in Madrid and at the Palacio de los Hornillos mansion in Las Fraguas, Spain, standing in for a country house on the Channel Island of Jersey.

Reception

Made on a budget of just $17 million, The Others grossed $210 million worldwide, becoming a major critical and commercial success.

Reception

With $24 million grossed in Spain, the film became the highest-grossing Spanish film of all time, surpassing the record previously set by Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella earlier that year.

Reception

The Others made history at the 16th Goya Awards by becoming the first English-language film without any Spanish dialogue to win Best Film at Spain's Goya Awards, out of a leading fifteen nominations and eight wins.

Trivia

In April 2020, Sentient Entertainment acquired the remake rights to The Others, planning to update the story to a present-day setting, with Universal Pictures later joining as co-producer and distributor.

Reception

In 2025, The Hollywood Reporter ranked The Others as the 14th-greatest horror film of the 21st century.

Memorable quotes

Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead.

Mrs. Mills Explaining the nature of the house and its supernatural events

If you see a ghost, you say "hello".

Grace Stewart Her matter-of-fact instruction about encountering ghosts

[Grace is firing at the servants] Don't trouble yourself, ma'am. Tuberculosis finished us off, more than half a century ago.

Mrs. Mills Revealing the tragic truth about the servants after Grace fires at them

This house is ours, this house is ours.

Grace Stewart Obsessively claiming possession of the house

No one can make us leave this house.

Grace Stewart Adamantly refusing to leave her home

Death of a loved one can lead people to do the strangest things.

Mrs. Mills Commenting on how grief affects people's behavior

The intruders are leaving, but others will come. Sometimes we'll sense them. Other times, we won't.

Mrs. Mills Describing the presence of future intruders in the house

Sooner or later, they will find you.

Mrs. Mills A chilling warning about inevitability

I'm beginning to feel totally cut off from the world.

Grace Stewart Expressing her isolation in the house

They're everywhere - they say this house is theirs.

Anne Stewart Describing the persistent presence of ghosts

Themes

nightmare suicide attempt shotgun servant cemetery world war ii nanny haunted house channel islands female protagonist mansion soldier gardener photosensitivity