A missing child sparks a journey into the spirit world in this assured Spanish horror movie

At a time when American horror seems transfixed by graphic sadism, the acclaimed Spanish chiller "El Orfanato" ("The Orphanage") harks back to an older tradi...

Read the Empire Movie review of The Orphanage. A good old-fashioned horror in the best possible way, this is a beautifully told, terrifying ghost...

A doom-laden Spanish thriller about the ghostly goings-on of castoff children, The Orphanage isn't as scary as Guillermo Del Toro's similarly themed The Devi...

I used to love horror movies, but now I tend to dread screen dread. It's not that I've grown too old and jaded to be scared—nobody outgrows fear—but the ...

“The Orphanage.”

I am not easily frightened by movies, but “The Orphanage,” a superb haunted-house story from Spain, thoroughly got to me both times I saw it. Guillermo d...

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The Orphanage is an effective mixture of horror and fantasy, with the supernatural bleeding into dreams that teeter on the brink of reality. It employs a si...

Extented Reviews from James Berardinelli. Approved as a critic by Rotten Tomatoes. Fantasy novelist.

Now here is an excellent example of why it is more frightening to await something than to experience it. "The Orphanage" has every opportunity to descend into

Dir: Juan Antonio Bayona. Sp. 2007. 105mins.

The familiar spooky metaphors punch above their weight in thisSpanish chiller.

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