The cuckoo's nest classic gets a gruesome and surprising prequel

In Orphan: First Kill, murder is more than child’s play

The final act of 2009’s Orphan revealed a shocking twist; the adopted 9-year-old Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) wasn’t a child but a murderous 33-year-old w...

In Orphan: First Kill, a genuinely inventive twist only barely salvages a cheap, unnecessary prequel. Read our review here.

Isabelle Fuhrman is back as the murderous 'Esther' in William Brent Bell's horror prequel. Read the Empire review.

The ‘child murderess’ of this horror franchise never looks anything but a woman in her mid-twenties... and that’s OK!

Fuhrman is fantastic in this schlocky but never boring return to the 2009 cult favorite movie.

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Orphan, which had a reasonably reception with critics and audiences back in 2009 played with a villainous 9-year-old girl, adopted by and kind couple…

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Esther returns from her cult hit for a very silly prequel

If not for its wonderfully campy leading lady and some nice vamping from one of her co-stars, it would be completely disposable.

An “Orphan” sequel? The movie about the diminutive Eastern European girl with a sad case of the psychopaths? It’s a little late for that. The original ...

Orphan: First Kill is a zany and gruesome prequel to the 2009 movie, Orphan

William Brent Bell’s 'Orphan: First Kill' proves that not every horror concept has the potential to be franchised.

Welcome back, Esther.

Orphan: First Kill would not pass logical examination by a teenager, but it does not lose sight of its one governing idea – that every family is weird.

Screenwriters Alex Mace and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick gave their character Leena Klammer, aka Esther Albright, a complete back story at the end of Jaum...

A new documentary casts a mysterious author in a new light while a horror prequel depicts an old kid learning some new tricks.

Isabelle Fuhrman returns for a sequel that leans in gloriously to the franchise's inherent absurdity

The Russian bad seed's ability to fake her way into a family isn't even the most contrived element.

2009 saw the release of Orphan, and with it the debut of Isabelle Fuhrman as big-brown-eyed 9-year-old Esther, an orphan from Russia adopted by an