Whilst sat there gritting your teeth, be prepared to be sucked in. This horror/thriller will have you craving more and more. Juan Antonio the director of The Orphanage has directed numerous nail biting thrillers such as The Others. As for blood and guts this film has few however it has numerous eye opening moments.
Plot Laura(Belen Rueda) retreats back to her old orphanage with her son Simon(Roger Princep) and her husband Carlos(Fernado Cayo) to restore it for a home for children with special needs. Simon has imaginary ghost friends. Early in the film Simon goes missing. Laura has unusual clues to find her son and ends in a sickening and disturbing image that will stay in your mind for life!!
All the actors in this film act really well. If I saw Belen Rueda in the street, I wouldn’t say hello Belen, I would most likely say hello Laura because that is the character she plays and that is who I no her by. Roger Princep is only 10 in real life and for him to play such a main and complicated character is quite amazing. Roger really shows good facial expressions, it makes your feel sorry for his character and you get generally engaged to the film.
My best part of the film is when Beliger gets run over by the ambulance because although it is very shocking and quite disturbing I found it quite funny because one moment she is there in the road looking evilly at Laura then bang and she is dead.
In conclusion the film is a very unusual, weird, creative piece of acting. Maybe if I watched it again I would grow to like it. In my perspective the film was frightening but not as horrific as other films I have watched. I do recommend you watch this film it is well worth your money.
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Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
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