emilycons I'm not one for horror movies, like at all. I was nervous this movie would be super scary but I wanted to try it out anyway. This movie does a great job of being scary, but not so scary it's hard to watch. It was more intense and rather disturbing than it was scary and I loved it!

hearthstoneivan 6.9/10 Gets better and better the more ridiculous it gets. The ending really managed to breath life into the dullness of the first half. Excellent performances all around, even from the kids. Has all elements to be a really good movie, but it happens to be just ok. Probably worth watching, wasn't in flamboyant love with it. Really appreciated that it dared to go in such a twisted direction in the end.

shovon Its one of the better horror(or should I say thriller) movies I have seen till date.why the kids(especially 'Danny' being the robust kid he is)would not spill the beans to his parents beforehand quizzes me.Then at the last the million-times-used cliché of the cops landing up when the 'real action' is all over ..apart from these ..I think it was quiet a tight movie. Vera Farmiga was good & at times very good. Aryana Engineer was very Good :) & Isabelle Fuhrman was the actual 'hero' when it comes to the acting Laurels. Nicely pulled off.and I also saw ....Joel silver was involved in the making too..aahhh my Predator man ;).

cinemajesty Director Jaume Collet-Serra shows Hitchcockian-researched training skills in suspense building with the movie "Orphan" from 2009. Previously more on the slasher side of horror with a remake of the 1950s "House of Wax", fixing solid motion picture entertainment for Warner Bros. Pictures from 2005 to 2015 with a emotionally mixed "Run All Night", starring Ed Harris and Liam Neeson, with which the director had been collaborating frequently through the past seven years and again for the upcoming film called "The Commuter" (2018)."Orphan", released in Summer 2009, modestly successful at the U.S. box office, can not fulfill its potential of throughout suspense thriller. Main characters solidly performed by actors Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard, which are not given the subtleties to make the picture emotionally arresting enough to care for anything what is happening on-screen. The chemistry between the actors does hardly come to any peak moment in which the fire-starting character of Esther, performed by an 11-year old Isbelle Fuhrman, disturbs the all so unchallenged suburban home of a family of mother, father and two children.Shot entirely on Canadian soil, the story of "Orphan", pending between home-base at an unidentified countryside, visual-poorly perspective hospital sights and the occasional psychiatrist office visitation, which feel disconnected to any characters' emotional states. The character of Esther just nesting in the home of married couple Kate & John, painting, making up and dressing like 20 something young woman, which is then the single yet unsurprising twist in the picture, when a former psychologist gets called to explain verbally without any visual interpretation or reference that Esther is actually a 33-year-old woman in a girl-child's body.Director Jaume Collet-Serra does as good as he can to make "Orphan" motion picture entertainment. But in this case, the endeavour fails. Too many tension-dropping scenes follow one after another, so when it comes to the knife-slashing showdown from the interior basement of the house to ice-breaking floes of a nearby frozen lake exterior, the characters are degraded to fighting puppets with no identifiable esprit left for the audience to enjoy.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)