I was very young when watched this movie in 1984,and by this time if found it very scary and unusual movie beyond the original piece of horror,today this picture survives and became a classic horror from the seventies,today with a great restoration this came out very fresh and interesting yet not aged,the story is amazing and creepy,those twin weren't easy to face,in the middle when stay clear about Holland's death all things make sense and became more powerful and robust,the end leave a little doubt about who are in the window???Robert Mulligan made your best work in your career certainly!!Resume: First watch: 1984 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8.5

This horror movie, directed with great subtlety by Robert Mulligan, is practically guaranteed to keep the audience off center. Mulligan plays merry hell with the audience, keeping the viewer in the dark even though the film, set in the summertime, is brightly lit.Summer 1935. Twelve-year-old twins Niles (Chris Udvarnoky) Perry and his brother Holland (Martin Udvarnoky), adorable little boys with a great deal of charm (Niles especially), are doing what little boys do in the summer: running here and there, drinking from the fountain in the yard, playing this game and that, and skirting up to the edge of mischief without actually going in. At least at first. There is another character in this triangle: the twins' grandmother Ada Vedrenya (Uta Hagen, the great acting teacher from HB Studio in one of her rare film roles).Hagen is a fascinating actress. Her film career was extremely short and usually consisted of dark roles such as the Russian grandmother here. Fans will also remember her in THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL and REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. She was a prodigious talent on the New York stage; film seemed to be her way of paying the bills.Also in the family we have Alexandra Perry (Diana Muldaur), the boys' mother who is clearly haunted by something but we don't get to find out what it is until the last reel. The boys also have an adopted sister (Jenny Sullivan), who is in residence with her husband Rider (John Ritter in a VERY early film role), Aunt Vee (Norma Connolly), Uncle George (Lou Frizzell) and the twins' much- hated cousin Russell (Clarence Crow), a chubby boy who hates his cousins as much as they hate him.Trouble is, things HAPPEN to anyone the twins hate. The first one to get it is cousin Russell, skewered on a pitchfork jumping into a haymow.As the plot unravels, we discover that the peculiar events have something to do with Ada and "the game" she plays with the twins. This is the first film to deal with telekinesis: it didn't start with CARRIE but CARRIE was the apotheosis of the subject.But as in CARRIE, things get out of hand and Ada quickly loses control over what she had thought was a harmless game.The ending is a shocker with a 360 degree twist that I definitely did not see coming.Splendid acting, a great script from Tryon's novel, and the work of a director with sure hands and an eye for what scares us.That, ladies and gentlemen, is THE OTHER. Check it out!

I first saw this movie as a child sometime around 1976 and saw it only once. I was eight years old. But I never forgot it; its images burned into my young brain.After seeing those images replayed in my mind over the years I decided to look for it again. Finally, thirty years later I found it and rented it, it was exactly as I had remembered it. I want to see it again.The Other is a great movie with a great plot and great twist. Shows the contrast between good and evil like many movies today but in a crafty style.I wish someone would do a remake of this movie sometime but I bet it wouldn't compare to the great work done by the director and actors in the 1972 version.

I have always had a fascination with twins whether they are fraternal or identical. The movie "The Other" shows the relationship between identical twins, Niles and Holland Perry played effectively by Chris and Martin Udvarnoky. Holland is the troublemaker of the twin-ship who is the boss of his younger twin, Niles. The boys have no father because he died in the apple cellar. Their mother grieves over his death while Grandmother Ada who is Russian dotes on Niles. She has taught him the psychic ability to project himself into people and animals. This is the "great game" they play. This game turns more sinister when Niles insists Holland is the one playing the tricks. However, it's not true! Holland fell in the well and drowned on their March birthday and it's Niles who is doing all the evil things. The evil of Niles comes at the end when his sister and brother-in-law's infant vanishes and the baby girl is found drowned in a pickle barrel. Ada burns up the barn Niles is in but he lives and she dies in the blaze.