Nine-year-old Esther, Russian, very cute and polite, is very talented at painting, plays piano like an experienced artist, is smart, speaks English fluently and learns sign language very fast. The perfect child for adoption, or so it would seem. She always locks herself in when going to the bathroom, carries arround some sort of bible, wears really old-fashioned clothes and dresses, seems to appear everywhere from nowhere and strange things happen when she's around. Ok, maybe something's wrong here. No? Well then, no it is!

Mildly shocking, unexpectedly violent and terribly flawed, Orphan is at times a fun horror movie that verges on self-parody, at times a bland horror movie that is filled with cliches and tired genre tropes. There…

Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.6

If you've ever stumbled across this list of mine you know that scary kids in films creep me out. That fact alone made this film earn its strides with me as it creeped me out to no end.

This is not a scary film, it is more an atmospheric piece. It goes to great lengths to create a sense of foreboding that kept me on the edge of my seat for most of the running time.

This dread is centred around the titular orphan who is adopted by Vera Farmiga's character and her family. She is played with conviction by Fuhrman who carries the film on her young shoulders.

And I guess that's…

So there’s this couple, they’re all like “Boo-hoo, our baby died, let’s get a new one from the baby-pound… uh, I mean, orphanage.” and the orphanage-lady is like “Here’s our selection, take your pick. But choose wisely, you can take only one.” Yes, she is Prof. Oak from the Pokemon games.
Really? I'm going to go over the plot. No, I am not.
It is a surprisingly good thriller. I avoided it for a while because I thought I've figured out the twist so what's the point, but it's still really cool.
Isabelle Fuhrman is brilliant, certainly one of the most promising child actresses. Coincidentaly Jimmy Bennett is also here, so he's the complete opposite, total shitsack of a child…

Two hours.

Why the hell is this film two hours long? Who on earth thought this film needed to be two hours long?

This film has been done so many times before that it needs to be an hour and a half long and no more than that so we can get it over and done with, go through the motions that you always get in these kinds of thrillers and horror films, and then we can go about our lives.

Orphan is just rubbish. It's slickly made rubbish, I'll give it that, but I don't really mean that as a compliment at all, to be honest. This might have benefited from being less glossy and more grimy and not…

Orphan is one of those horror films that I had heard so much about, practically knowing every single detail of the plot, yet managed to avoid watching it. Finally, I thought that it was time to see the film that all of my friends had raved about when it was first released, and still raved about years afterwards. It's interesting seeing my friends talk about a film as much as they did with Orphan, since the twist at the end of the film seemed to shock practically every person that watched it. Having seen many other horror films that were similar to this, it wasn't as shocking as it could have been, since it's something that has been done numerous…