The Other
by Robert Mulligan
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Actor: Chris Udvarnoky, Diana Muldaur, Martin Udvarnoky, Norma Connolly, Uta HagenDirector: Robert Mulligan
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Producer: Robert Mulligan
Editor: Folmar Blangsted
Editor: O. Nicholas Brown
Producer: Don Kranze
Producer: Tom Tryon
Writer: Tom Tryon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-17
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
DVD Reviews of The Other
DVD Review: The Magic Show...
Summary: 5 Stars
THE OTHER works because it is put together like some dark engine, where every little piece is essential. Tom Tryon (I Married A Monster From Outer Space) wrote the book and screenplay w/ intricately devilish precision. The Perry twins, Niles and Holland (Chris and Martin Udvarnoky) are not what they appear to be. There is something very wrong going on. Something just beneath the surface. Something spiteful, malicious, and deadly. The rest of the family is either oblivious, or pretending not to notice. That is, they are mere fodder for an evil that threatens to consume them all. An evil draped in childhood innocence. What REALLY happened to dad? The cousin? The neighbor? What WILL happen next? Watch closely. Every scene has some small puzzle-piece. Some hint. THE OTHER is like watching a horror / nightmare version of THE WALTONS! Everything looks fine, but as the story unfolds, nothing is fine. Never has been... DVD Review: If you liked or hated the film, be sure to READ THE BOOK!
Summary: 5 Stars
THE OTHER is based on the debut novel by former actor Thomas Tryon. He also wrote the screenplay for the film.
It's a VERY well written novel and of course, it's better than the movie (since most all books are.)
If you liked the film, you'll LOVE the book -- and if you're a reader and didn't like the film, the book will win you over.
Tryon also wrote HARVEST HOME (made into the TV miniseries THE DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME) which was another great novel, somewhat like the TV movie CROWHAVEN FARM.
After that, he wrote LADY, a non-supernatural thriller that's great, then some novels about Hollywood (Crowned Heads, All That Glitters) and a few other novels in different genres, trying to recapture his earlier success.
He died in 1991.
DVD Review: My Brother/Myself
Summary: 4 Stars
Just as it was for so many other American film genres, the Seventies were a kind of renaissance period for horror movies, and saw some of the most genuinely creepy films ever made, some of them quite bloody, and others more elegantly scary. This 1972 Robert Mulligan film falls into the latter category, and makes superb work of a heady rural Connecticut summer atmosphere as a backdrop for the story. As the film begins we have trouble figuring out the relations of the extended Perry family living together on a large farm: there is the married daughter Torrie, Aunt Vee and her horrible tattletale child Russell, and fragile shut-in Alexandra (Diana Muldaur). And there is also Alexandra's mother, the Russian immigrant Ada (Uta Hagen, in a rare film appearance), and Alexandra's twin sons Niles and Holland (Martin and Chris Udvarnoky). Gradually we begin to realize something is not quite right with the mischief-making twins, and that the elder, Holland, is genuinely malicious, and given to playing mysterious deadly pranks. Part of the film's most genuinely disturbing qualities are that we never feel we quite get the full story on the ambiguous relationship between Holland and Niles--or what it fully has to do with the strange "great game" Ada has taught Niles to play. While some of the film's effects are a bit cheesy, many are genuinely horrific, and work very well on the imagination by not showing everything (the eventually revealed whereabouts of Torrie's missing baby being the most famous). Mulligan has a genuine gift for recreating a fly-buzzed, dreamy atmosphere of a Depression-era New England summer that seems to work with the film's horrors in remarkable ways. Much depends on the film's casting, and though Hagen is not as believable as you'd like, the Udvarnoky twins are wonderfully effective, seeming alternately sweet and repulsive as the plot demands; as with his TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD a decade earlier, Mulligan again shows his real feel for working with child actors. The beautiful Muldaur, more often seen as a television actress, also has one of her rare compelling roles for film as the twins' fragile and haunted mother. DVD Review: creepy older movie...
Summary: 5 Stars
Not your typical Hollywood ending. You will think you have figured out the secret early on, but you will never guess what is coming at the end. There is implied magic, definite mental illness, murder, but the best is the ending that was to me a little unnerving.
(It was fun to see John Ritter, he looks so young! Even if only for a small bit.)
DVD Review: Stays with you long after...
Summary: 5 Stars
Disturbing, chilling and stays with you long LONG after the credits roll: If you have sufficient capacity for character empathy and sympathy as well as understand and appreciate the finer points of traditional/classic gothic story telling with its penchant for mood and atmosphere; subtlety and understatement, then this movie for you is a must-see. Trust me, if the events of this story ever actually transpired in ANYONE'S life they'd be scared s***less--regardless of any one-star reviews to the contrary. The only thing more chilling is the novel by Thomas Tryon that the screenplay was based upon.
Description of The Other
Like most 12-year-olds, Niles and Holland like to get into mischief. The only problem is when Holland gets into mischief, people have a funny way of "accidentally" dying. Niles knows that Holland is responsible for all the gruesome accidents happening in the neighborhood - the pitchfork hidden in the hay, the severed finger in the box, the baby in the wine barrel. He knows but dare not tell anyone, not even his beloved grandmother Ada (Uta Hagen), that Holland is the evil twin?or is he?General DVDs
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