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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6237

I see it's being released early March in France and Belgium so hopefully we'll get it soon after that

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

Oh good stuff babe hopefully it will come out around then too

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6237

Here's some more info.....The movie was shot at the Partarriu manor in Llanes in the Asturias, a building that has been vacant for 34 years. "The house was eerie," said Sergio G Sanchez (the writer/director of Orphanage), "because the woman who lived there, her son got run over by a car right in front of the house. She said there were too many memories there and she left. But the house is as they left it 30 years ago. And when the soundman was doing the wild track of the room sound, he was like,'Quiet everyone, quiet. What's that?' Actually, most of the stuff you hear in the seance sequence, all those strange noises, are what they recorded. The restroom was on the second floor and everyone was asking 'Could you please go up with me to the restroom?' Nobody wanted to go there on their own!"

Very spooky!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

Can you imagine grown men asking for others to hold their hand up to the bathroom

Sounds great though and creepy...it all adds to the experience of the film babe....it does sound like a good film

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6237

I'm waiting to hear the noises in the seance scene

Knowing it's actual recording will make it more scary!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

Yep that bit has become alot more interesting now ...not that I would say an old house like that with creeking floors and pipes not to mention the filming equipment there would make significant noises though it willl be good to hear it

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

I seen The Orphanage (or Orfanato, El) the other night and I highly recommend it...its the best horror I seen in a while..... Director Juan Antonio Bayona does a fantastic job of building up the tension and horror, suddenly shocking you but also interlacing it with other emotions such as sadness and regret...why is it that the last few Horror movies that I rate highly have all got a gloominess mingled within aswell?
The plot centers around Laura....a woman who brings her family back to her childhood Orphanage home, where she wants to re-open for handicapped children. Her adopted son Simon, who has HIV, then starts to communicate with imaginary/invisible new friends which play a particular game of taken something that Simon cares about and leave trails and clues for him to find...However this takes a more sinister turn when Simon himself disappears without a trace. Leaving his parents to question has Simon's real parents taken him?,....Has some strange old woman that was hanging around got something to do with it?, or is there more to Simon's invisible friends in the house? Throughout the film Laura's husband Carlos is much more the sensible logical one thinking the answers must lie in the facts while Laura is much more open to the paranormal element...and retracing her past at the orphanage. I really don't want to say anymore except its well worth the watch and that if you can get your head around the language barrier thing and don't mind the subtitles at least at the beginning ...it won't be long before you forget your even reading them.....Oh and another thing the sight of a kid in potato sack mask may not sound creepy but trust me it is.......

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6237

Excellent film and the best I've seen this year. The acting, especially of Belen Rueda who plays Laura, is fantastic and totally believable.......you really feel her pain when her son disappears. To a certain extent her husband plays second fiddle in the film.......he's more willing to accept their son's disappearance after time, while she's desperate and will go to any lengths to find him....even calling in a spiritualist to the Orphanage (which leads to some scary scenes!)

The tension keeps you on the edge of your seat.....and it's one of those great horror films that I can highly recommend you go see.

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

Oh brill I'm delighted you enjoyed it babe...did you jump in certain bits of it?

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Madamhoney · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:16 am Post subject:

Hmm, can't say I was as enamoured as you Cat. I thought it was quite a good film, although me & my sister both thought it seemed really long (even if it wasn't) as it was a bit slow.
I didn't find it tense or scary, despite there being quite a few jump out your seat moments.
I don't know why it was, the atmosphere just wasn't there for me. Moments that should've been scary (spoiler!) like when she was playing that game where she knocked on the wall and turned round, that should've been really tense and scary but it wasn't, to me anyway.

I did like the end of it though. It wasn't something I'd seen coming so was a nice twist to the tale.

Overall I'd give it probably 7/10.