Synopsis
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
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Cast
- Belén RuedaLaura
- Fernando CayoCarlos
- Roger PríncepSimón
- Mabel RiveraPilar
- Montserrat CarullaBenigna
- Andrés GertrúdixEnrique
- Edgar VivarBalaban
- Óscar CasasTomás
- Geraldine ChaplinAurora
- Carmen LópezAlicia
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- 90
Newsweek
A great horror movie is like a good shrink--and a lot cheaper, too. It purges us through petrification. That horror movie, thankfully, has arrived. It's called The Orphanage," and it is seriously scary. - 90
Variety
A fastidiously grim ghost story that rattles the bones of the haunted-house genre and finds plenty of fresh (but not too bloody) meat. - 83
The A.V. Club
While some of the trappings and even some of the plot elements could easily be called unoriginal, Bayona and screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez arrange them in a fresh way, crafting an emotionally resonant, nerve-jangling experience. - 75
Chicago Tribune
As in “Pan’s Labyrinth,” The Orphanage relies on a risky blend of clinically realistic horrors and poetic suggestions of an alternate world, one that can be visited, but at a price. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
The filmmakers know the tropes of spooky movies: Glowering shadows, squeaking playground equipment, eerie storms and half-glimpsed forms, but the film rests on Rueda's subtle, intense performance, rooted in every half-articulated anxiety that ever gnawed at a parent's brain. - 70
L.A. Weekly
There’s not really a bogeyman in The Orphanage and not much blood; just insane intensity and a building sense of bad vibes. - 70
Los Angeles Times
An unexpectedly poignant ghost story. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
This Spanish supernatural thriller begins interestingly and finishes intriguingly. But what lies between drags because the film lacks a driving story line.
