Who would have thought that possible: A GOOD horror movie!

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2009)

When I saw the poster and pictures of this movie, along with the sinister title "Orphan", I thought it was just another C-movie, cheaply made, with no sense at all.
Thankfully I read a little further on IMDb. Vera Farmiga and Peter Saarsgard? Those are real actors, not top of the A-list, but good. And a rating of 7.2 (as I am writing this) with over 7000 people rating it?
Maybe this one, was different?
And it was!
The story is fabulous, the script well written. The cast is very good too, first and foremost the incredible Isabelle Fuhrman. Kid was 10/11 when they shot this, can you believe it? We are gonna hear big things of this girl in the future !!!
Of course you get the genre-typical "Why did not anybody see that?" or "That's just not possible" moments once in a while. But those moments are never utterly made up, and the later revealed truth about Esther is a plausible explanation for most of them..
I am very happy to have seen this, it's not often that I watch a horror-movie without regretting it afterwards. A well deserved 8 from me here, if you've not seen it yet, give it a try!