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

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.

ORPHAN: FIRST KILL is a new horror prequel set prior to the events in the 2009 movie 'Orphan'. Read our full movie review here >

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.

Arrow in the Head reviews the Orphan prequel Orphan: First Kill, starring Julia Stiles and Isabelle Fuhrman - back as Esther after 13 years!

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson, Andy Klein and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platfo...

A follow-up to 2009's 'Orphan' on Paramount+, a Princess Diana documentary on HBO Max, 'Look Both Ways' with Lili Reinhart on Netflix and more to watch at home.

Malevolent conwoman Esther gets a backstory in this strangely overdue and unintentionally funny prequel to the 2009 hit.

Isabelle Fuhrman and Julia Stiles team up for a movie that has guts to even exist.

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Isabelle Fuhrman, who in “Orphan” had to be convincing as a child of age 9, reprises her role 13 years later in this prequel set two years earlier.

Esther returns from her cult hit for a very silly prequel

I have to say, horror has always been my least favorite genre, but watching Orphan in 2009 was one of the first that stuck in my memory for years. The

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

Thirteen years ago, a mid-budget horror film caused an outsized stir among genre film fans stemming from its delightfully absurd third act twist. That film w...

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...

“Orphan: First Kill” differs in a few details, but the ends remain the same in a stale, predictable prequel.

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