Episode 291: Between the Living and the Dead- The Others & What Lies Beneath

In this episode, we explore two early-2000s ghost stories that
turned the haunted house genre inside out: What Lies Beneath
(2000) and The Others (2001). Both films trade jump scares for
psychological unease, unraveling domestic spaces where secrets,
guilt, and repression give rise to the supernatural. We’ll dig
into how each story uses the perspective of its isolated female
lead—played by Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman—to blur the
line between haunting and madness. From Zemeckis’s glossy
Hitchcockian suspense to Amenábar’s gothic restraint, we’ll
unpack their mirrored twists, themes of denial and revelation,
and what these quiet thrillers say about grief, memory, and the
ghosts we create ourselves.________________


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