The Orphanage
El orfanato
Mexico, Spain
2007
105 Min
Color
2.35:1
Spanish
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Adopting seven-year-old, sweet natured, and imaginative Simon (Roger Princep) has awoken complex feelings in happily married Laura (Belen Rueda). Having been adopted herself and feeling a need for closure, Laura persuades her husband Carlos (Fernando Cayo) to buy the dilapidated institute where she spent the earliest, happiest, years of her life and reopen the orphanage as a facility for disabled children. As they move in to the silent, stately manor where something ominous haunts the darkened hallways, Simon’s behaviour becomes increasingly reserved and malevolent. Carlos pins Simon’s actions as a desperate bid to get more attention from his distracted parents but Laura isn’t convinced and embarks on a desperate quest to unearth the terrible secret that lurks in the old house.
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Becca Quie
8Apr12
Finally a film with a complete story and a good one! It does get annoying when a lot of modern films ambiguous, as if that's necessarily the key to a phenomenal, stylish movie. This is story time at its best.
Mr.Wolf
10Jan12
Ive seen the house in Asturias, Spain, its quite small, its more like a cottage than a mansion. But it scares the living soul out of me thinking about the movie, its just creepy and pshycologic terror that really gets me. What makes your mind create a scene before it happends and toys with you until you find out if your right, if not, or if its much worse than you imagened.
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Grady Hendrix Reviews THE ORPHANAGE
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Once again we welcome special guest reviewer Grady Hendrix from Kaiju Shakedown with a review of The Orphanage.] It’s not hard to predict exactly how much money Spanish horror movie, THE ORPHANAGE, is
TIFF 2007: The Orphanage (El Orfanato) REVIEW
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
In Jungian parlance the puer is the archetype of the eternal child. And any Jungian worth his salt will advise that—as attractive as eternal youth might seem—it leaves behind a wake of emotional devastation
TIFF 2007: The Orphanage (El Orfanato) REVIEW
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
In Jungian parlance the puer is the archetype of the eternal child. And any Jungian worth his salt will advise that—as attractive as eternal youth might seem—it leaves behind a wake of emotional devastation
Grady Hendrix Reviews THE ORPHANAGE
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
[Once again we welcome special guest reviewer Grady Hendrix from Kaiju Shakedown with a review of The Orphanage.] It’s not hard to predict exactly how much money Spanish horror movie, THE ORPHANAGE, is
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Mythical
By MR. Universe on December 30, 2011
Laura, a former orphan, raises her adopted son Simón together with her husband Carlos in an old house and former orphanage where she was raised. While at the orphanage Simón tells Laura that he has… read review
The Orphanage
By Amir Syarif Siregar on April 21, 2010
Sebuah psychological thriller, yang mengedepankan pemikiran untuk menimbulkan atmosfer horror tanpa harus menunjukkan secara jelas. Berhasil? Di beberapa scene berhasil. Namun buat mereka yang terlanjur… read review
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By jaredmobarak on November 15, 2009
There is something to the marketing of foreign films and the way Hollywood tries its hardest to fool the public into thinking it is an English language movie. By not allowing any characters to speak… read review
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