The Orphanage
by Juan Antonio Bayona
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Actor: Bel?n Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Roger Pr?ncepDirector: Juan Antonio Bayona
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Oscar Faura
Composer: Fernando Vel?zquez
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product features:
- Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (director of Pan's Labyrinth) presents The Orphanage, a chilling ghost story about a woman who discovers dark and horrific secrets hidden within her cherished childhood home and her desperate attempt to rescue her family from the nightmare into which she unwittingly led them.Running Time: 105 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?HORROR Rati
DVD Reviews of The Orphanage
DVD Review: CAUTION: SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES!
Summary: 1 Stars
Oops! It in SPANISH with english subtitles. Something I missed in all the hype. DVD Review: C.R.A.Z.Y.
Summary: 5 Stars
I heard good things from another person about this movie so I had to see it for myself and I am glad I did. It is not so much a scary movie more like, mentally scary. This orphan girl plays the part great and is psychopath at least. Really great twists in the movie especially about the dwarfism. The orphan girl is very cunning and human emotion means nothing to her. The only thing I did not like is when the Dad died at the end.DVD Review: Movie Lover
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best ghost stories made. The actors (especially the children) were so good. The mother's pain so realistic. Love love love this movie!!! Guillermo Del Toro is awesome!!!DVD Review: Ghost Story and Mother's Love
Summary: 4 Stars
Those who like such films as "The Sixth Sense" and "The Others" (or Jack Clayton's "The Innocent" and Robert Wise's "The Haunting") should not miss "The Orphanage" ("El orfanato") directed by Barcelona-born Juan Antonio Bayona. The Spanish film is a rather remarkable effort in that, like a classic ghost story, the film, which cleverly uses some of the familiar elements from horror genre, favors atmosphere over logic, and it works.
The following paragraphs contain a mild spoiler.
[STORY] Laura (Bel?n Rueda) comes back to the abandoned orphanage by the sea 30 years after she left the place. This is where she was raised when she was a little girl, and Laura is going to open a new orphanage here for the handicapped children with her husband and adapted son Sim?n. When everything is going well, however, some strange things start to happen. And finally during the party Sim?n disappears suddenly, as if spirited away.
Some say "The Orphanage" is a ghost story, some a supernatural thriller. Whatever the film is, it owes its success to Bel?n Rueda as Laura. The Spanish star literally becomes the character she plays, a tormented mother whose beloved son is long missing. Her acting is so strong and her character's sadness sometimes so painful to see that "The Orphanage" ultimately becomes an intense mother-and-son drama, even though the son is not always there.
True, most of the narrative devices in the Spanish film "The Orphanage" are not particularly new - a little boy "speaking" with his "imaginary friend" or the "secrets" of an old house have been dealt with so many times before. But there is something very unique about The Orphanage," that is, something unnerving that curiously stays in your mind long after watching the film itself. It is hard for me to describe the nature of it. Maybe it is the shocking "truths" about the orphanage and the missing case. Or maybe it is some of the film's very spooky scenes or the ending that defies our expectations. All I can say is see for yourself.
The film is co-produced by Guillermo del Toro, of "Pan's Labyrinth."
DVD Review: Movie of Nothing
Summary: 3 Stars
As any film on unexplained or horror, a story of former orphan's plan to renovate her former closed orphanage building into a family-run seaside hotel, is lacking of any practical logic and far remote from reality as everything else occurred during run of plot rather psycho-delusive than worth being created at all.
There are much worse movies of such gender and if some wasted time and money to watch, it is good for producers anyway.
Description of The Orphanage
Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (director of Pan's Labyrinth) presents The Orphanage, a chilling ghost story about a woman who discovers dark and horrific secrets hidden within her cherished childhood home and her desperate attempt to rescue her family from the nightmare into which she unwittingly led them.It's only his first film, but Spain's Juan Antonio Bayona has already figured out the secret to a successful supernatural thriller: emphasize character over special effects. Like Walter Salles's Dark Water and Alejandro Amen?bar's The Others, The Orphanage pivots on a pretty woman and an unusual child. When her old orphanage goes on the market, Laura (Bel?n Rueda, Amen?bar's The Sea Inside) and Carlos (Fernando Cayo) settle in with their son, Sim?n (Roger Pr?ncep). Once acclimated to the remote seaside surroundings, they plan to re-open it as a home for special-needs children. Meanwhile, their seven-year-old doesn't know he's adopted or that he has a life-threatening illness. He does, however, have a lot of imaginary playmates. When Sim?n disappears without a trace, his parents contact the police, but to no avail. Because Laura has been hearing odd noises and having strange visions, they proceed to consult a medium. Aurora (Geraldine Chaplin, speaking perfect Spanish) is convinced they aren't alone. Carlos has his doubts, but Laura makes like a detective and revisits her childhood--through photographs, home movies, and exploration of the spooky stone manor--to determine who or what abducted her son. Produced and presented by Guillermo Del Toro, The Orphanage is less fanciful than his works, though it does bear a vague resemblance to the ghostly Devil's Backbone. There are a few gory make-up effects, but Bayona mostly preys on our fear of the unknown to craft a first-rate fright fest. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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