Infuriating

Rating: 2/10 (6 July 2012)

I tried to like "Orphan". I really tried.
Sadly, I wasn't able to enjoy this movie at all, mostly because for the incredible annoying and stupid character of John (Played by Peter Sarsgaard) Honestly, he was the dumbest and the most irritating character that I have seen in any other horror movie before.
There are many horror films with dumb characters, but he takes the cake: His annoying obliviousness about the extremely obvious evilness of Esther kills the movie for me. I know that this is just a movie, but there is a limit for everything. In real life, nobody could be so stupid as John.
Not that I have something against dumb characters, but John is not even likable: He is not only a complete idiot, but also incredibly annoying as well. All what he does in this movie is infuriating to the point of making this movie a very unpleasant and tedious experience. The other characters were clichés, but at least none of them were so annoying as John.
Good horror movies as "The Shining", "The Exorcist", "Hellraiser" "The Evil Dead" and "Braindead" didn't need those kind of clichéd (or annoying) characters in order to create their excellent stories. But I have to admit that this was much better than the previous horror movie of Jaume Collet-Serra, the remake of "House of Wax".