Uhhh...No.

Rating: 3/10 (2 September 2009)

Did I miss something? I'm not sure that I watched the same film that all the other reviewers watched. The film I saw was contrived and just plain dumb. First off the whole premise is as silly as silly gets. Woman has a stillborn. Women and husband adopt a very strange little girl who dresses as if she is a stand in at a Heehaw reunion. Why would anyone adopt this bizzaro in the first place? As this plot moves forward we gradually find out that the little girl who we already knew was strange is not only strange but in fact very twisted and violent(of course we knew this in the first 10 minutes). The movie plods through the typical horror/suspense fare at an even pace with Ester (the sick little girl) gradually escalating in her violence. There's no real suspense here. We already knew when we saw the trailer that the "orphan" was going to do bad things--and lo and behold she does bad things. There is a plot twist that smells of the director looking for an easy way to explain why this all happened--stupid. I give it 3 stars only for Vera Farmiga.....great actress.