The Orphanage - El Orfanato
Who's in it: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep
What's it about: Laura(Rueda) was raised in an orphanage and adopted from there as a child. Now that the building where she grew up is abandoned, she's come back to start a new orphanage with her husband, Carlos(Cayo), and her son, Simón(Príncep). Simón has imaginary friends in this house and they play a treasure hunt game with him. They will steal his things and leave clues for him to find them. When Simón discovers that he's also adopted, he begins to disobey his parents. He goes missing during the open house and is missing for 9 months when the imaginary friends begin to play treasure hunt with Laura to help her find Simón.
What I Think: This movie went straight towards the top of my favourite movies list. Even though the whole movie is in Spanish, don't let that keep you from watching it. English subtitles are available. Believe me, watching this movie, even with subtitles, will be worth your while. I've never seen these actors/actresses before, but I fell in love with their emotional abilities from the beginning. Guillermo Del Toro is THE visual mastermind. Although this movie wasn't the gory, disgusting scary I'm used to, the story was very intriguing and scary as in the possibilities of it occuring. This movie is recommended for pretty much all ages. There is one part when they're in the town street that might make you cringe.
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