The OrphanageFan Reviews

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  • Written November 16, 2008

    THE ORPHANAGE

     by  lugubriousthespian

    This is simply one of the most beautifully made ghost stories to come along in a very long while. The story is fascinating, even touching as a woman buys the house she once lived in as an orphan and plans to use it after rennovation as a care home for disadvantaged youth. When tragedy strikes with her young adopted son, she begins to be haunted by the house's past and she must go deep within herself not only for her own well being but that the children who also lived with her when she was younger.

    Produced by new fantasy / horror maven Guillermo Del Torro who brought you PAN'S LABYRYNTH and HELL BOY II as well the older creatur feature MIMIC, doesn't cut any corners and mounts an extraordinarily beautiful movie and his director Juan Antonio Bayons knows how work on an audience's imagination with one deliciously creepy and clever scene after another. One you should really watch with the lights out!

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  • Written July 3, 2008

    this web site stinks

    this site is not that great, cause when i try to buy a movie all i get are show times and dates when a
    movie starts, but the problem is that the movie ( Orphanage ) i want to buy is NOT in theaters any
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  • Written July 3, 2008

    Later viewing but well worth...

    so i watched this movie at home, unfortunetly, in pitch black, alone, at 1 am and let me tell you by the end of the movie my bathroom light was on and my bedroom door was halfway open...i was definitely scared....not gore or monster or even ghostly (some parts) but the idea, the suspense had me behind my pillow. Love this movie i will definitely buy this one!!!

    3 out of 7 found this review helpful

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  • Written June 25, 2008

    Keeps you guessing

     by  sookie blake

    I watched this movie with my boyfriend who has never sat through a subtitled movie, he always gets annoyed with them but this one was different, he was perched on the edge of his chair like he couldn't wait to read the next line. Great movie!

    4 out of 5 found this review helpful

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  • Written April 8, 2008

    The Orphanage

     by  ffl

    very entertaining. keeps you guessing the outcome. would watch it again to catch all the clues.

    12 out of 27 found this review helpful

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