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( - Making of Featurette
- Deleted scenes
- Interview with Bayona and Del Toro in Budapest UK Exclusive Q&A with Bayona at Curzon Mayfair
- Casting & Rehearsals
- Designs & Sounds & Lighting & Storyboards & more
A haunting and heartbreaking plot full of unimaginable scares and creeping, undefined dread; Juan Antonio Bayona's astounding debut The Orphanage stands as one of the most beautiful and moving horror movies in recent history.
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.
Taking inspiration from everything from Peter Pan to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, director Juan Antonio Bayona and producer Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone) have produced a highly imaginative and well made film that induces fear throughout. With a musical score that elicits shudders from the outset and a heart-wrenching plot that filters unimaginable horror through a fairytale frame, The Orphanage is a unique, intelligent, spine-tingling, yet heartfelt horror that is as unsettling as Guillermo del Toro's Pans Labyrinth.
Average rating (7 reviews)
Very good film not that scary tho
pazzadean | 17/08/2008 | See all pazzadean's reviews (8) »
In my opinion this film was really well made as you would expect from the director but it wasnt that scary.Really enjoyed it from start to finish and the subtitles wasnt an issue.get this on blue ray as the picture and sound are excellent 5 out of 5 for me.
so close but no classic.
thedarkknight1 | 26/07/2008 | See all thedarkknight1's reviews (1) »
i really would like to review this movie in two parts consisting of the first hour and 20 and the last 25. the movie builds beautifuly creating a tense and spooky atmoshere through out. the story while never original has its good moments and a couple scenes which are a quite scary. that is all in the first hour and 20 minutues, the ending is extremely poor and very unclimatic which is a real shame because if the final 20 minutues had matched what had gone before this would have been a classic. image quality on bluray disc is top tough with not a bit of grain.
Dark, Disturbing, Beautiful & Brilliant!
MovieMad13 | 25/07/2008 | See all MovieMad13's reviews (72) »
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Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla & Edgar Vivar | |
15 years and over | |
2008 | |
Widescreen 2.35:1 | |
Spanish | |
English | |
1 hour and 45 minutes (approx) |
