| View Larger Image | The Orphanage | DVDStarring: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla
Directed By: Juan Antonio Bayona
Also With: Oscar Faura (Cinematographer), Fernando Velázquez (Composer)
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| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 105 minutes | | Format: | Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | New Line Home Video | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 2.35:1 | | Release Date: | April 22, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 2,703nd |
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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
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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. |
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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 Amenábar's The Others, The Orphanage pivots on a pretty woman and an unusual child. When her old orphanage goes on the market, Laura (Belén Rueda, Amenábar's The Sea Inside) and Carlos (Fernando Cayo) settle in with their son, Simón (Roger Príncep). 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 Simón 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 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 160 reviews)
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CAUTION: SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES! by Daveomatic  1 Stars
November 28, 2009
Oops! It in SPANISH with english subtitles. Something I missed in all the hype.
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C.R.A.Z.Y. by Christopher J. Olson (Flagstaff, Arizona)  5 Stars
November 02, 2009
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.
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Movie Lover by OKAT 5 Stars
October 30, 2009
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!!!
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Ghost Story and Mother's Love by Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan)  4 Stars
August 17, 2009
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 (Belén 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 Simón. When everything is going well, however, some strange things start to happen. And finally during the party Simón 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 Belén 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."
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Movie of Nothing by Michael Kerjman (The Earth)  3 Stars
August 16, 2009
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.
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