https://vo.rs/tags/amenabar/Latest from the Amenabar desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-others-the-twist-told-through-a-childs-fear/<p>There is a particular kind of horror film that gets better once you know the ending, and <em>The Others</em> (2001) is the cleanest example I can name. Alejandro Amenábar wrote it, directed it, and scored it himself, and the confidence of that single authorship shows in how patiently the film withholds. Watch it cold and it works as a slow, elegant haunting. Watch it a second time and every scene is doing something you missed — the film has been telling you the truth from the first reel, in a voice pitched just below the threshold you were listening at.</p>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000