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The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) (2007)
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Laura returns to the house where she was raised, and decides to transform it into an orphanage. Soon, her son, Simón, makes an invisible friend...
| Release Date: | December 28th, 2007 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Running Time: | 100 minutes |
| Directed By: |  | Juan Antonio Bayona |
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| Written By: | | Sergio G. Sánchez |
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The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) Movie Review by Matthew  (2/14/2008) |
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Guillermo Del Toro, the director of "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy", seems determined to revive the ghost story. Quite frankly, we need it. Too many 'horror' films are excuses for filmmakers to throw buckets of blood and gore at the screen, hurling everything at us in an attempt to see what sticks, or more appropriately,...
(complete The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) review by Matthew)
| The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) Movie Review by Movie Addict (5/14/2008) |
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Horror movies are horror movies. They can be good and bad. There are certain things that make them well worth watching.
First, there is the cinematography of Óscar Faura, who did The Abandoned and The Machinist. The camera work in this film was nothing short of spectacular.
Then, for a good horror movie, you have to have...
(complete The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) review by Movie Addict)
| The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) Movie Review by Jarrod (3/15/2008) |
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'The Orphanage' is a ghost story in the tradition of The Others and more specifically, Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, and to see his name among the producers is not terribly surprising. This is a subtle and chilling film, beautifully written and shot. Belen Rueda is Laura, who has moved with her doctor...
(complete The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) review by Jarrod)
| The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) Movie Review by Zombie Boy (1/18/2008) |
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Laura, a middle-aged woman married to a successful doctor, is finally realizing her dream of reopening the orphanage where she was adopted from at the age of seven. She still feels a lot of survivor gult: she was adopted because she was a healthy child, whereas her friends were all sickly or crippled.
On the day of the...
(complete The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) review by Zombie Boy)
| The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) Movie Review by Mitch (1/11/2008) |
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A quick review for a movie that really needs to be seen in order to believe just how good it is, The Orphanage is by far the scariest movie I have seen in a long, long time. Director Juan Antonio Bayona takes his cues from producer Guillermo Del Toro using the same dark fantasy storytelling that was prevalent in Del Toro's...
(complete The Orphanage (Orfanato, El) review by Mitch)
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