The Orphanage
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- Synopsis
- Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro produces director Juan Antonio Bayona's gothic frightener about a long-abandoned orphanage with a particularly troubling past....
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- Starring
- Geraldine Chaplin, Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera
- Director(s)
- Juan Antonio Bayona
- Distributor(s)
- Picturehouse
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 105 min.
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Critic Reviews
A fastidiously grim ghost story that rattles the bones of the haunted-house genre and finds plenty of fresh (but not too bloody) meat.Read the full review
Lures us in with extraordinary subtlety. Keeping sound effects and incidental music to a relative minimum, it builds its suspense almost subliminally. So when something scary or shocking does occur -- deprived of those Hollywood-style cues -- we are truly startled.Read the full review
Deliberately aimed at viewers with developed attention spans. It lingers to create atmosphere, a sense of place, a sympathy with the characters, instead of rushing into cheap thrills.Read the full review
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