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Suitable for 15 years and over Optimum Home Entertainment Release date: Monday 21st of July 2008 Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Director(s): Format: PAL, Running time: 102 minutes Language: English (Subtitled) Language: Spanish (Original Language)

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Editorial
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Belen Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Cayo Director: Juan Antonio Bayona

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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review

Backed by Guillermo del Toro and yet made by a surprisingly inexperienced group of film makers (especially considering the end result), The Orphanage is a chilling, tense supernatural thriller that could certainly teach more established directors a thing or two about how to send shivers down the spine.

It tells the story of a woman, Laura, returning to the orphanage where she was raised as a child. Her plans are to look after sick children there, but it doesn’t take long for things to go awry. Without giving too much away, visions from her past and a threat to her own family are the starting points for a complex and quite haunting thriller, that stays in the mind long after the credits have rolled.

A film that works on more than one level, The Orphanage really is some piece of work. Juan Antonia Bayona, behind the camera, generates an incredibly atmospheric mood that underpins the film, and wisely takes time to put pieces in place. He’s aided by a terrific cast, and an unsettling screenplay that layers in an uneasy horror that’s as anti-Hollywood as it comes.

The result of all of this is one of the scariest films of recent times, and yet something that still manages to be that little bit more, that sticks in your mind for some time afterwards. Make no mistake, The Orphanage really is something different, and all the better for it. --Jon Foster

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Is it me?
Review date: 2009-05-09 Rating: 4 out of 10

My first ever review, so bear with me. I've just watched this, having purely bought this based on the previous reviews. I love a good horror film, unfortunately this isn't one. Honestly i've been more scared watching football, being a Coventry City fan, a lot!!!! Where can i start?? Anyone want to buy a cheap Blu-Ray, only watched once. I can't fault the quality of the disk and the actors do a very good job, considering the material they have to work with, it just isn't scary! It takes an hour to get going, then just when you think ...here we go...it peters out to a somewhat lame ending. People were comparing it to the Others, buy that instead, a far better film. To me horror films should scare the pants off me, a rare beast today i'm afraid and this doesn't.

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