El Orfanato

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

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

It's an extraordinarily impressive, low-key shocker in extraordinarily impressive high-def picture and sound.....That's why I find a film like 2007's "The Orphanage" ("El Orfanato") so welcome.....though I liked it the first two times, I enjoyed it all the more the third time around (thanks in no small part to the excellence of its high-def picture and sound).....And I grew to appreciate the acting of Ms. Rueda as the distraught mother..... ... Full Review

This is the most ludicrous moment in a ludicrous film, revealing yet again....he demonstrates more style than soul, failing to revitalize the spiritual, sexual, and political essence of great films like Suspiria , The Tenant....That is the modus operandi of the fetid The Orphanage , a haunted-house spooker that is all notations and no text.....Bayona's keenness for transgression is really just an elaborate, miscalculated ruse.....Despite these films' flaws, they are possessed of an unmistakable spiritual ur ... Full Review

His techniques are classic but effective, and he doesn't feel the need to mix in satire or humor to disguise them. The Orphanage (or El Orfanato as its called in its native Spain) belongs way up there next to Halloween, The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby as one of the great horror pictures of our time. ... Full Review

Far better to see the real deal - such as this deeply unnerving movie from Spain. ... Full Review