El Orfanato (The Orphanage)

thrilling scenes of psychological horror.....there's some exciting news for horror fans regarding Guillermo Del Toro 's remake of the spooky foreign film " The Orphanage .....He's a much better director than he is a writer, having particular difficulty with endings.....Aside from his screenwriting flaws, Fessenden's conlusions often suffer from having terrible low-budget special effects..... ... Full Review

It is perhaps The Orphanage 's greatest success....the film tackles every crevice of its supernatural premise with ingenuity in order to use its dead children to legitimate, deeper effect..... ... Full Review

Pan's Labyrinth is as close to the perfect movie for me that you can get....Guillermo Del Toro is quickly becoming one of my favorite movie producers/directors..... ... Full Review

If you're after a decent ghost movie, The Orphanage certainly fits the bill. Aside from the position this film holds temporally, my only other complaint would be regarding Laura. ... Full Review

The Orphanage is a great representation of the sheer talent in Spanish language cinema at the moment:....Produced by Mexican scare-master Guillermo Del Toro (director of Pan's Labyrinth and the similarly-set orphanage chiller The Devil's Backbone ), this isn't a simple haunted house movie or manipulative multiplex scare-fest a la What Lies Beneath en espanol..... ... Full Review

The last time I talked about Priest was when I was ruminating about Scott Stewart (founder of The Orphanage and recent genre writer/director) and his other religiously based horror film, Legion . ... Full Article

By Stuart Kemp of The Hollywood Reporter New Line's US remake of the Guillermo del Toro-produced Spanish-language horror movie 'The Orphanage' will be directed by actor-producer-director Larry Fessenden. ... Full Article

Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. Is Esther really a killer in the nest or is her ex-alcoholic foster mother just going cuckoo? ... Full Article

Actor-producer-director Larry Fessenden has signed on to helm The Orphanage , New Line's remake of the Guillermo del Toro-produced Spanish-language horror movie, says The Hollywood Reporter . ... Full Article

As anyone that read my most recent installment of What I Watched, What You Watched already knows, I recently took in my first viewing of the great Spanish horror flick [REC] and enjoyed every minute of it. ... Full Article

The Orphanage scared the Mexican out of me, and with a last name like Gomez, that's pretty hard. Not only is it one of the most truly creepy movies to be released in the last five or ten years, but... ... Full Article