Grace is a religious 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.
Acting
Kidman's brittle intensity — every twitch is a warning
Direction
Amenábar builds dread from silence and Victorian shadows
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a fogged photograph
Director
Alejandro Amenábar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Amenábar wrote, directed AND composed the score — the church organ theme was his own hands.
This film revived the 'unreliable narrator ghost story' trend that Shyamalan started and nobody else could replicate.
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