Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The Orphanage (El Orfanato)

Do not be misled... this movie is not Guillermo del Toro's , he endorses it, which is good and the quality is there, but after you've seen his work, you get to expect more and it turns out to be a production of his, though not directed by him. Still it reminesces a little of a late 90's movie of his named El Espinazo del Diablo (rent it), in that it involves orphans and ghosts. 

It is not your main fare horror movie, It diverges a bit from mainstream, tapping a little more into psychological thriller. A lady loses her kid in this new big mansion, and out of desire, we can think, she keeps feeling that the kid's still around and that he's trying to reconnect. It is highly entertaining and it reaches a fairly credible denouement, (considering of course, it's a ghost movie).  It plays with disturbing imagery without falling into the ludicrous.



I will rate this one with a Rent it, also, check my new ratings guideline, I've simplified it, as I've found I tend to chose mainly movies I will like, there's no need to have a lot of options for movies I really don't recommend (although I will recommend at least half of the movies, but on different levels though).




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