The Orphanage News

2007

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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
Director	Juan Antonio Bayona
Genres	Horror, World Cinema

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The Orphanage
- 14 Mar 2008
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
The Orphanage: Juan Antonio Bayona Interview
- 26 Mar 2008
Pan's Labyrinth creator Guillermo Del Toro oversees The Orphanage; this year's critically acclaimed supernatural thriller. Garnering international rave reviews it's even been dubbed as the scariest film since The Shining, and with comparisons to The Sixth Sense and The Others, we decided to catch up with director Juan Antonio Bayona to see what all the fuss is about… LF: How did you get involved in The Orphanage? JAB: The first thing was I loved the script; I thought it was quite a unique mix... Read more
Lars and the Real Girl
- 10 Mar 2008
It's not unusual for children to have imaginary friends. Parents usually take an indulgent - if uneasy - view of such a fantasy, confident that it will soon pass. The Orphanage and The Spiderwick Chronicles both play on just such an understanding, but in each case the imaginary has more teeth than you would expect. When it's an adult labouring under this delusion it's more disturbing - unless you're Jimmy Stewart and your pal is a six foot white rabbit answering to the name of "Harvey". Lars (R Read more
The Best Of The Year So Far
- 16 Jul 2008
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[Rec]
- 07 Apr 2008
There's something about zombies that has caught moviegoers' imagination in the last years - something to do with the fear of viral epidemics and social breakdown, probably. A zombie's major handicap would traditionally be its speed, or the lack of it. Danny Boyle got around this by giving them a fuel-injection of adrenaline in 28 Days Later, to George Romero's reported disdain. The undead in [Rec] aren't particularly quick on their feet. But it's no longer an issue when everyone is locked into Read more