The Others: Setting Analysis

The film, The Others, takes place in Jersey immediately upon the end of World War II. Grace and her two children live in a remote beautiful house. The house is a stereotypical "haunted house"; it is in the county and has a Victorian style, there a many vastly open rooms that are grimly light and seem to be forbidden. The whole house has a bad omen sensation to it. The atmosphere of the film is eminently creepy and foreboding. The fog that surrounds the house just lingers there throughout the film gives a ghoulish essence to the setting. The fog is literally impervious to get through in a way creating its own realm of existence. Overall it is a wearisome setting for a ghost story.