The Orphanage

2007 • 105 minutes

4.4

165 reviews

87%

Tomatometer

Eligible

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The Orphanage centers on Laura (Belén Rueda) who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens her son's imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place.

Ratings and reviews

4.4

165 reviews

Bradford Finn

November 28, 2022

Guillermo del Toro does a phenomenal job of provoking more realistic feelings of anxiety, dread, and (eventually) sorrow by tapping into the paternal fear of losing a child. I do feel that the ending was too obvious, hence the 4 stars, but other than that I really enjoyed this movie and look forward to watching more of his work. My biggest complaint is that I couldn't get the subtitles to go away (and I'm not a native speaker), but that's not what I based my rating off of.

Jeremy Goetzke

October 26, 2017

I can only imagine the bad reviews coming from someone who can't get over subtitles or is looking for "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" I have always loved Guillermo del Toro. "The Devils Backbone", his masterpiece "Pans Labyrinth", and while we really enjoyed this movie in the theatre if you haven't seen "Pans Labyrinth" I'd suggest that as a better example of his genus. "The Orphanage" is a good film, enjoy!

Jesus Ochoa

March 14, 2021

Easily one of the best horror dramas I've ever seen in my life. This film relies more on storytelling than it does the jump scares we see so often in most horror movies and the actors are absolutely superb. Pure cinema.

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