Tragic, touching and scary as hell....

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2008)

"The Orphanage" had me cowering in my seat for 80% of this movie! It's not a slasher film (there's only one scene that I can remember with any blood). It's horror comes more from what you don't see, or what you only see glimpses of. I found the story to be so heartbreaking at the end, which is rare to feel in a horror movie. This movie is like what horror movies used to be like; you had to work for it rather than having all the corpses pile up on your lap. The tension in this movie is thick. The mood even thicker. The acting was superb. The real jewel of this movie though is the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and consider it to be one of the best I've seen.