The Orphanage
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I'm not sure if it's playing in many theaters any more, but I highly recommend seeing 'The Orphanage' if you can. It's a wonderfully scary story that manages to be a proper film at the same time.
Anyone else catch it?
Anyone else catch it?
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It's entirely in Spanish as was Pan's Labyrinth. Funny, one family got up in disgust at the realization that it was entirely in spanish and made quite a scene as they left the theatre. So as they round the stadium seating wall someone shouted, "Hasta la vista!" Had me rolling!
What a sad and silly thing to hear.
To nitsmoff: People should read the back of the ticket...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/picturehouse/theorphanage/trailer2/
It doesn't immediatly strike me as looking as good as Pans Labyrinth or the Devil's Backbone, both of which it shares a lot of thematic similarities, but I think thats probably as much to do with the terrible trailer as the overall quality of the movie.
I look forward to this eventually turning up at the local art house cinema.
The trailer is playing up the horror aspect of it, which is very much present in the film, but there's more to it.
The average horror buff is not going to be wooed by a trailer that promises 'Bone chilling horror... with heart, humanity and drama!'
I love Guillermo's 'independant' films.
It's lush with his visual style and camera work.