terrible, predictable, want my money back

Rating: 1/10 (15 January 2009)

El Orfanato was presented as something different in the horror genre: enough with the sudden sounds and scary monsters that you can see coming miles ahead. This was going to be a horror movie that was surprising in style and thrilling down to the end.
Within about ten minutes the movie proved to be everything promotion had promised it not to be. Completely predictable, the classical horror concept that had stopped being inventive many years ago, this time, in some Spanish orphanage. I cannot spoil the end because I have no clue how it ends. El Orfanato was the second movie in my life that I could not watch down to the end. I always give movies a fair chance but this one (and Return Of The Killer Tomatoes, which was the first movie I didn't finish) was an utter waste of time. Me and my friends left the cinema, and soon after just about all of the other guests left too. Do not go and see this film, it is a waste of time.