The Orphanage Review

Rating: 5/10 (1 March 2013)

The Orphanage a horror/thriller/mystery film produced by Guillermo Del Toro, is about a woman named Laura who returns to the orphanage she grew up in to start a care home for disabled children herself with her husband and adopted child. However, on the visiting day for care home, her son, Simon, goes missing after she encountered a clash with a strange boy with a cotton mask on his head. Throughout the film she is determined to find her adopted son and comes across mysterious encounters across the way. The film's tense atmosphere throughout leaves you confused and wanting to find out the answer to this twisted mystery. Even though it gives of a tense and 'edge of your seat' atmosphere, the ending of the story is quite disappointing as the horror side of the genre isn't touched much leaving you left with more of a thriller/mystery genre film. Overall, the film has a well wrote story line wanting you to watch more however the horror aspect fails to impress the viewer.