Creepy to macabre to horrifying!

Rating: 9/10 (13 June 2008)

This was a rather appropriate film to see on Friday the 13th! 'The Orphanage' centers around a mother, Laura, who moves in to an old disused orphanage, with her husband Carlos and young son Simon, to renovate it and hopefully use it to take care of sick and disabled children . Laura was partly raised in the orphanage but was adopted out at a young age. This is all I should tell you about the film as there is much to be uncovered and quite a few surprises in the course of the story. There were many times during the course of the film I felt a tense and tingling fear creep through my body and the film moves from creepy to macabre to horrifying. The performances are splendid, particularly from Belen Rueda who plays Laura. And it was a pleasure to see the great (and unfortunately rarely seen) Geraldine Chaplin playing a psychic in one of the film's best scenes. Go see this film if you dare!