As Anne and Nicolas hide in a closet, the door suddenly opens (seen from their point of view). The notion that this is taking place in Grace’s mind may seem to undermine the earlier assertion that Grace is not imagining the goings on. "THE OTHERS" Apparently the mask didn’t look much like Shatner, anyway, which worked for the best: The filmmakers painted it and adjusted the eyeholes to provide the unsettling visage for their maniac. In this book, Orsk, a Swedish furniture store in Cleveland, Ohio, is the scene of some very paranormal activity, which spurs a handful of employees to brave an overnight shift to find out the origins of these malevolent spirits. But Loomis does something un-doctorly in the process: He parks in a handicapped spot, despite not having any noticeable handicap. Known for its multiple reveals and Twist Ending. Fortunately, Amenábar and his team were able to convince her to return to the film, but "I was so glad to step out of her in the end," Kidman said. There are odd rules in the house. The slow-burning Gothic ghost story follows a WWII-era mother named Grace (Nicole Kidman) and her two photosensitive children (Alakina Mann and James Bentley) living in a dimly-lit, isolated mansion on the remote isle of Jersey in the British Channel Islands. After seeing Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13, Syrian American financier Moustapha Al Akkad put up the $300,000 budget for the director to make a movie about a psychopath who stalks babysitters. Comparing this movie with "The Sixth Sense," we feel a renewed admiration for the way M. Night Shyamalan was able to maintain tension through little things that were happening, instead of (this film's strategy) big things that seem about to happen. On the gate, there is a sign announcing that the house is for sale. She then slowly goes in only to find the door closing by itself. Because the vast majority of Skyrim players will have had Lydia as a follower at some point in the game. Director Amenábar holds dual Chilean-Spanish citizenship—he was born in his father's native Chile in 1972, and his family permanently moved to his mother's native Spain when he was 18 months old. During rehearsals and pre-production, the subject matter—and particularly [SPOILER] Grace's killing of her children—was giving Kidman such intense nightmares that she quit the project. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) "It was still very difficult to exist in that state … when you’re doing an intense film the boundaries blur." Anne claims to have seen a group of people in the house several times: a man, a woman, an old woman and … Closing doors is therefore the best way to contain direct (sun)light. Spooky Photographs. She is a woman in peril, seemingly beset by ghostly intruders (actually the new owners of the house) against whom she actively takes up arms – a shotgun. Grace thinks she hears something coming from a room in the house and slowly approaches and then enters it. Anne slightly makes fun of Lydia suggesting that she certainly wouldn't be the one to tell Grace something (since the girl is mute). —E.M. All's well for a while until Anne reports that other people are in the house with them and various odd noises and occurrences then lead Grace to believe that something paranormal is occurring in her home. "My very first concern [was working in a different language] because I didn't speak English at the time," he said, but he started learning the language and delegated what he needed to. From genre classics that should be on everyone’s list to a few offbeat entries—including a must-read comic starring a spectacularly creepy ice cream man—here are our favorite horror books you should pick up. Edit. Instead, it achieves pure terror by examining man’s hateful, vengeful nature under the guise of a Western. He later escapes from a hospital in Smith’s Grove, Illinois. We then see a hand touch his face and hear him scream. Grace hires three new servants—the aging Mrs. Bertha Mills, elderly gardener Edmund Tuttle, and a mute girl named Lydia.