Oct 06, 2023LAURA WOLFE GARDENER rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Great film. I frequently said out loud to myself, "This is scary!" Quite scary but in intelligent ways Highly suspenseful. A psychological thriller. It had a timeless quality and left me wondering at times, "So when did this take…
I had to watch The Orphanage two times to understand the movie by Del Toro. The main character, Laura, lived in the orphanage as a little girl. She leaves the orphanage and comes back as an adult to live in the old house. In the movie,…
The 'orphanage' looks a lot like the place I was taken in the late 1950's. I was abducted from my home in Texas, turned over to someone who proceeded to beat me in the face and starve me to death. My abductor bragged about altering my…
Jan 29, 2016joywolf83 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Excellent, high suspense film. The lead female steals the show. You feel her joy, fright, desperation in whichever scene she has. It has a quiet build up with subtle layers. Personally I perfer movies with more dialogue. However if you…
Jan 31, 2015Nursebob rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Juan Bayona presents us with a ghost story that challenges our sense of reality by blurring the line between objective truth and subjective experience. Thirty years after being adopted from the “Good Shepherd Orphanage”, Laura Sanchez…
Jan 16, 2015Boobychuk rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Brilliant slow-burn horror film produced by del Toro. Well worth a look if you enjoy quality film making.
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Aug 08, 2014aaa5756 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Nothing new in this movie as far as special effects that we haven’t seen 1000 times before. The movie was very cheaply made cheaply acted also in other words, it was a dumb movie.
May 20, 2014Libraryman1_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Chilling, and thought provoking. uses the same subtleties as The Devil's Backbone. Retains the elements of a classic ghost story, with brief touches of horror. Very well acted including the performance of Geraldine Chaplin. I recommend…
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Feb 15, 2014bears1985 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Sorry gave up horror and subtitles don't work ! :(
Jul 27, 2012ManMachine rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Riddled to the absolute rafters with red herrings galore - It wasn't until its last 15 minutes that The Orphanage finally pulled its act together and made some real sense out of all the nonsense.... To make matters ultimately worse,…
Apr 12, 2011noisexorcist rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is less a scary movie than it is a moody and atmospheric haunted house tale. The film is reminiscent of Guillermo del Toro (director of Pan's Labyrinth), but is actually directed by
Juan Antonio Bayona. It is a lovely film and…
Dec 15, 2010TrevorBye rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Best horror Thriller movie period. This is the only movie i have seen that is generally creepy and very very suspenseful and in one part i was like...wow that was intense. Everyone must see this movie.Side note...this movie only has…
Oct 16, 2010Dalison0817 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Same person who directed Pan's Labyrinth, this movie will make you think you're going insane, or other people are going insane. It will challenge you if there are such things as ghosts or people are just insane. Sanity is best served cold.
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