The Orphanage: Review By BlizZzario, Bizniches

This was great movie, it had an excellent twist, good acting, good story, good visuals, and great directing, this movie could have been scarier, but I think it’s scary enough and give the effect, having a lot of scary moments like the house sound, the kid in the mask, and the psychic part. That scene could have been scarier if the ghost kids would have been scene, following her, but not shown on the tape, the audio of the kids crying and screaming wasn’t enough, to portray true terror. I also couldn’t figure out what happen to the kid, until the end, which shows how good the directing really was, one qualm with this movie and other alike, I found, is that the husband, wife, child, family member, etc. that is reaching out and has a problem, never is believed nor helped. Another qualm is that they don’t fully explain what happened to the orphans, or who killed them. The first part of the ending was really good, and was very well done to convey what was unexpected; furthermore the second part (the reveal part) was really good, you start to get what happen to her son, from the first or second clue revealed. The third part of the ending, is kind of sad if you really think about it (not going to ruin end), but it is what she wanted and it’s not a negative, which it could have been, but a positive in a matter of perspective. She wanted her son back, a renter/ buy 5 out of 5 (9.6/10).

Tangent: this is another good movie from Guillermo Del Toro, but like Pan’s Labyrinth and many other foreign movies, I think the subtitles take away from the action, movie, expression, and emotions, but then again it conveys a better story, is more exhibitionistic as an art form, and probably wouldn’t be as good in English, because you’re not use to the stars or culture so you focus on the story more coherently. Another thing this move is missing is Del Toro’s well crafted, developed, and designed creatures and characters like in “Hellboy” and “Pans Labyrinth”.

S. BlizZzard