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El Orfanato - The Orphanage(2007)

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metirish Aug 11 2008 11:26 AM

Guillermo del Toro produces this chiller , Laura returns with her husband and son Simón and buys the orphanage where she spent some of her youth , her plans are to fix it up and take in disabled children. Soon Simón is acting up and talking about his " friends" that play with him , when Simón goes missing what follows I found disturbing and transfixing as Laura is convinced that things that happened at the orphanage in the past are responsible for what is happening now. Is she going crazy , can she separate reality from her imagination? I wouldn't class this as a horror but I was on the edge of my seat throughout the movie and the payoff was worth it.