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The Orphanage (El Orfanato) (2007)

7.3 Listal rating
7.7 IMDB rating

2 Videos

40 Pictures

2 Reviews

31 Lists

232 Ratings

Release date : 11 January 2008
Horror (11), Drama (10), Mystery (7), Spanish (7), Thriller (6), 2007 (6), 2000s (5), Orphanage (5), Ghost (4), Suicide (4), Ghosts (3), Haunted House (2), Suspense (2), Treasure Hunt (2), Orphan (2), Death (2), Supernatural (2), Guillermo Del Toro (2), Murder (2), Foreign (2)

Description

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.


Trailers for The Orphanage

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Starring (View all) :
Edgar Vivar

Edgar Vivar

Prof. Leo Bálaban
Óscar Casas

Óscar Casas

Tomás
Mireia Renau

Mireia Renau

Laura niña


Written by (View all) :
Sergio G. Sánchez

Sergio G. Sánchez

screenplay


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children are scary (25 items) by malloryknox

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Important & Influential Horror Films (263 items) by Hexenkult

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Great ending (21 items) by dan

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101 Horror Films You Must See Before You Die (101 items) by 350125g0

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Ratings of The Orphanage






Reviews of The Orphanage (El Orfanato) - View all - Post review

El orfanato

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 19 11:05
Ótimo filme de suspense de grande produção espanhola...de inicio ao fim o filme cumpre o gênero que promete. Qualidade e técnica surpreendente...

"crer para ver e não ver para crer"


Rating : 9/10

There are still great horror films

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Apr 22 9:35
From the thematic point of view, it's perfectly natural that in a determined point in The Orphanage (El Orfanato), the classic Peter Pan is mentioned: since the film's own story is about kids who will never grow up, it becomes some kind of ghostly version of Peter Pan and it also fits on another genre that has films like The Innocents, The Others and The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del Diablo). With his first work in a feature film, screenwriter Sérgio G. Sánchez, the film is about Laura (Belén Rudea), a woman of thirty something years old who decides to buy the mansion in which was the orphanage she lived in as a child. Moving there with her husband and her son, Simón (Roger Princep), she's a woman quite determined to build there a house for children with special needs, something...Read more

Rating : 8/10