December 29th, 2007 | movies
- Creepy, desolate, old house.
- Being left alone in said creepy, desolate house.
- Creepy disabled/orphaned children.
- Masks or burlap sacks on said children.
- Creepy old woman.
- Creepy contacting the dead scene.
- It’s never daytime.
- Caves. I hate caves.
- Random loud things falling. Who keeps a collection of pipes in a closet??
- Watching the movie in a theater where one can’t take a breather every 30 minutes.
The Orphanage is full of cliches, yet engrossing at the same time. Lesser movies make me groan when these things happen, but I was in suspense the entire time. It doesn’t do anything groundbreaking, but it’s refreshing to see a horror movie these days that isn’t just torture porn.
This is the part where I throw in a plug for The Devil’s Backbone, that movie does not get enough love.
Random reference to another movie: The Wizard of Gore!
One Response to “The Orphanage. Too creepy? (teeny weeny spoilers)”
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 am
She kills her son accidentally by opening a ‘broom cupboard’ full of pipes, closing it, not realising the pipes fall back against an inward door to a basement where her son is playing. Later that day, the bangs they hear ‘inside the walls’ that they assume to be ‘haunting sounds’ are actually her son banging against the door, the big bang being his body hitting the ground when he falls from the very steep flight of stairs and dies. It would seem that the ghost boy that locks the mother in the bathroom was trying to keep her there so she wouldn’t lock her son in the basement by mistake in the first place.
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