Orphan!

Rating: 8/10 (31 July 2009)

What to say that hasn't already been said about Orphan. Creepy, dark, evil, I'm talking about the movie of course. Sure it might be slightly predictable but what makes this different from recent horror bummers is the acting from the little girl; she's what makes the movie something else.
SPOILER: (The seduction scene: A little squeamish)
The story is simple enough, couple brings home orphan, orphan looks nonthreatening enough but things start to turn bad. Soon after a small animal is killed the orphan bashing begins. Now I know about the whole uproar about people saying this movie portrays orphans badly but they haven't seen it because there's a twist ending(I already seen it coming)
The one thing I didn't care for was the direction, the director would try every chance he got to try for a jump scare that just says "We meant to put something else here but we decided to go with an old cliché instead." If Sam Raimi was behind the camera it could have been a totally different movie, and I'm not just saying that because of Drag Me To Hell.