The ROSSMAN with a PowerPal
I nearly
pissed my pants this movie frightened me so damn much... Oh,
who am I kidding, I was spraying like a fire hose!! From the
opening scene all the way until the urine soaked climax.
It all starts
off in 1945, with that hottie, Nicole Kidman, hiring a bunch
of nannies and groundskeepers (not Willie, unfortunately)
to
take the place of her last group of employees who just up and
left one day without even saying goodbye. The new people
are
really creepy. Nicole also has two adorable little shits for
children who can't be exposed to direct sunlight because
they're
vampires or something. You don't actually see them suck any
blood, but Angel never really did either and it's pretty
clear
that he's the walking dead. Needless to say the kids are a
bit creepy too. Then there's Nicole's husband who went off
to fight
the evil Nazis and never came back. That's pretty creepy. And
lest we forget the house that most of the movie takes place
in. That is one of the creepiest edifices I've ever seen!
The
Amityville Horror was like a daycare center compared to this
thing! Cree-fucking-py to hell and back! Oh yeah, and "the
others" themselves are pretty much okay.... in a CREEPY
sort of way.
Yeah, you
could kind of figure out how the movie was going to end about
halfway through, but it was one slaptastic ride. And that's
a slap to the head (but not to hurt, just creep you out). The
Others is one of the most imaginative ghost stories told
in quite a while. There's a shitload of stuff going on and all
of it is important to the plot. It has an incredibly creepy
build up and one of the best resolutions in the final act to
ever tie up a film. And speaking of tying up, Nicole Kidman
looks absolutely fuckable in this movie despite the fact she's
mostly covered up from neck to toe for two hours and she's a
mom. She's still gorgeous. And she knows how to handle a gun
almost as good as Linda Hamilton in T2.
In the
end I find that I must give The Others 45.3 out of
48.872 Rossman Points of Extraordinance. It was a creepy
and spooky flick that borrowed a bit too heavily from another
major Hollywood ghost movie that was released fairly recently.
And I think I said the word "creepy" 9 times including
just then... Now THAT'S creepy. |