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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 .. Read more
| Starring | Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera |
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| Director | Juan Antonio Bayona |
| Genres | Horror, World Cinema |
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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.
| Starring | Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Edgar Vivar |
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| Director | Juan Antonio Bayona |
| Studio | ELEVATION |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 50 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 50 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Hot Hits, Top 400 All-Time Rentals |
| Genres | Horror, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Spanish Blu-ray: Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | Production year: 2007 To Rent: DVD: 21 Jul 2008 Blu-ray: 21 Jul 2008 |
An extraordinary performance by Belén Rueda (The Sea Inside) is the beating heart and tortured soul of The... read more on Time Out
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this film was amazing, i went to see it with some friends and i was overall extremely satisfied, its one of... read more »
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Amazing film!!!
Amazing film,even with the subtitles! We were glued to it from the very start and the end is brilliant!A must watch if you fancy something abit different.
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If you can read WATCH IT !!!!!!!!
For gods sake !!!!! What's the matter with people?????
So it's Spanish with sub-titles !!!
This film was brilliant -atmospheric, ... read more »
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BRILLIANT LOVED IT!!!
Absolutely loved this film it is very well acted and after 2
minutes i did not care that it had subtitles. I got carried away
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Some things never change, like the scary properties of an old dark house and things that go bump in the night. American horror seems transfixed by graphic sadism right now, but the acclaimed Spanish chiller "El Orfanato" harks back to an older tradition of psychological scares epitomized by classics like The Innocents, The Haunting, and Cat People. First-time director Juan Antonio Bayona and screenwriter Sergio G Sanchez make it as a point of honor to take classic horror movie talismans - dark Read more