The Other
Robert Mulligan
- 1972
- USA
- Horror
- 1h48mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
In 1930s rural America, on a family farm, two inseparable twin brothers share their secrets, their games and the strange rituals passed down by their grandmother. But a series of accidents shatters this fragile harmony.
Robert Mulligan was not a genre filmmaker. That might explain why this terrifying masterpiece treats the supernatural as a reflection of the human psyche without ever forsaking horror. Above all, it confirms him to be, like Luigi Comencini in Italy, one of cinema's greatest chroniclers of childhood. A nightmarish journey through trauma, The Other is adapted from Thomas Tryon's novel, also the author of Harvest Home. These two remarkably tense, pioneering works helped lay the foundations of the folk horror genre.
Credits
- With : Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky, Norma Connolly...
- Screenplay : Tom Tryon, adapted from his novel 'The Other'
- Photography : Robert Surtees
- Editing : Folmar Blangsted, O. Nicholas Brown
- Music by : Jerry Goldsmith
- Production : Robert Mulligan, Don Kranze, Tom Tryon
Philippe Vuillemin