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Genre | Horror |
Format | PAL, Blu-ray |
Contributor | Karel Roden, C. C. H. Pounder, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Margo Martindale, Susan Downey, Andrew Shaver, Jimmy Bennett, Vera Farmiga, Jaume Collet-Serra, Lorry Ayers, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rosemary Dunsmore, David Johnson, Joel Silver, Matthew Raudsepp, Aryana Engineer, Isabelle Fuhrman, Peter Sarsgaard See more |
Runtime | 2 hours and 3 minutes |
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Jaume Collet-Sera directs this psychological horror starring Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsaard as Kate and John, a couple grieving the loss of their unborn child who decide to adopt nine-year-old Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) from a nearby orphanage. But almost as soon as they welcome Esther into their home, an alarming series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there is something very wrong with Esther. Is this seemingly angelic little girl as sweet and innocent as she appears?
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- Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.78:1
- Is discontinued by manufacturer : No
- Package Dimensions : 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 0.28 g
- Item model number : 000001320000
- Director : Jaume Collet-Serra
- Media Format : PAL, Blu-ray
- Run time : 2 hours and 3 minutes
- Release date : 30 Nov. 2009
- Actors : Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, C. C. H. Pounder, Jimmy Bennett
- Language : English (PCM Stereo)
- Studio : Studiocanal
- Producers : Leonardo DiCaprio, Susan Downey, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Joel Silver
- ASIN : B002KAIVL8
- Country of origin : Poland
- Writers : David Johnson
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 13,945 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)
- 1,165 in Crime (DVD & Blu-ray)
- 1,196 in Horror (DVD & Blu-ray)
- 1,666 in Thriller (DVD & Blu-ray)
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2024Pleased
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 January 2023Had high hopes for this, and wasn't dissapointed. Apart from the hotel film 1408 which freaked me out, this Orphanis deffinatly for mature viewers, it deals with most human emotions, but our orphan is just so bad to be somewhat drawn to her, thinking maybe she's not that bad, I was wrong. She can wrap her fingers round almost anybody, and that's what gives it "OMG what next is she planning" think all actors played such a disturbing film was great casting, and you could only be memorised by them. An excellent thriller / horror, but not for faint hearted. "be careful who you pick from the orphanage) is my warning. SKARSGOOD pretty decent, (k19 and flightplan).... Some interesting takes on how partially deaf people communicate, and Esther just uses it to great effect. Keep away from under 18.it has a very risky rating of 15. Far to young for most of the content which is bad really. In my days I had to wait until I was 21 to go see my first X film. Other than that a treat for fans of this genre
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2024Good purchase
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2023A standout feature of this movie, in my opinion, was the screentime presence of the five main characters.
I recall seeing the main five characters involved without being frozen out for substantial periods.
This also complimented by the relaxing plot without burdening the viewer and provided a real-time account as events unfolded.
Perhaps the movie can be compared to a Christmas storyline for a TV soap opera such as Eastenders, which seldom fails to tick all the boxes.
I will refrain from commenting on any instances of the movie plot. I have assertively watched this movie twice, and the DVD bonus features once.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2011After giving birth to a stillborn child, Kate and John Coleman, played by Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard respectivly, decide to adopt. Once at the orphanage, John is took in by a 9 year old girl called Esther, played brilliantly by Isabelle Fuhrman. Her intelligence is far superior to the rest of the children, and the couple decide that she is the one they want to take home. Once home, their natural son Daniel, played by Jimmy Bennett, takes an instant dislike to his new 'sister', but their other daughter, Max, who is deaf, played by Aryana Engineer immediately warms to her, after wanting a sister. Esther has been learning sign langauge on the way home to greet her. However, Kate, a reforming alcoholic, soon begins to sense all is not well with Esther, although John rejects this and refuses to believe that there is anything wrong. As Kate's suspicions grow, it puts a bridge between their relationship, and Esther soon proves to be anything but the perfect adopted child that was originally portrayed.
This is a good psychological thriller/horror, even to the point of being disturbing at times. It has a very dark theme to it, and a twist ending. It has received some negative reviews in the past, but I found it enjoyable entertainment for its genre.
Picture Quality is good but not outstanding, with some mild grain in places, mainly indoors, but does not detract from the overall enjoyment of the film. Sound is adequate, presented in 5.1. It's not demo quality, but that's more to do with the type of film that this is, not a reflection on any problems with the soundtrack. Finally the transfer is in it's original ratio of 2.35:1.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2011If you felt Let Me In was a subpar remake of Let The Right One In then give this movie a go. It's made by Dark Castle, one of my favourite modern horror movie makers. The acting and pacing is phenominal. The characters are well fleshed out and character development doesn't just add to the engagement to the movie but also plays into parts of the plot. It also has one of the best twists ever.
The bluray shines for most of the movie but in some parts the image isn't as crisp as you'd expect, but for the most part it's beautiful. A good, deep modern horror movie, this movie starts off nice and peaceful (except for the creepy opening) but slowly rachetes up the tension and creepy. Information about the characters is given out in little bites like a good TV series, allowing you to figure out what peoples hang ups are all about before eventualy having them revealed. It's a fairly long movie, bit over 2 hours, but the length is filled with substance not just drawn out suspense scenes.
And ontop of all that, it's got a really cheap pricetag, even for an Australian like me with the exchange rate.
Special features include a 14 minute making of, which gets more interesting halfway through when it starts refering to the history of scary kid movies, some of which i'll have to track down. There are a couple of interviews as well with cast and crew, and deleted scenes and alternate ending (which are interesting but it's clear why they were cut as they add little to the movie and would have dragged it), and a trailer.
BUY IT with confidence
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 March 2024Saw this yesrs, ago snd wantedto see again
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 July 2013Bought this film after seeing all the raves about it on another forum. I can't say I was that impressed. Its the usual layout of a modern horror film...drug swallowing traumatized woman with rocky relationship with husband, creepy evil person (or in this case, child), weird plot line, plot holes and then yeah...
Its not the worst film in the world but I wouldn't say it was creepy or scary. Just dramatic and twisty turney! Its worth a watch but if you are a scare seeker-its not for you.
Top reviews from other countries
- Gabrielle GagnonReviewed in Canada on 19 May 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Love this movie!! If you wish to watch something where the end is unpredictable - this is it.
- james 007Reviewed in Canada on 24 December 2013
4.0 out of 5 stars good
i enjoyed the product a lot... pretty much like it was advised and even more... i can say im satisfied
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Edtmair AlexanderReviewed in Germany on 7 November 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars Spannender, fesselnder Psychothriller!! ++ TIPP ++
Orphan - Das Waisenkind erweckt zwar Errinerungen an "Das Omen" aber dieser Film hat nichts mit Dämonen zu tun...sondern ganz im Gegenteil! Die ersten zwei Drittel verlaufen eher nach Standard, also nach einen Schema das wir aus anderen Horrorfilmen schon kennen! Aber das das letzte Drittel u.a die Auflösung (will nichts verraten) sind doch original und ungewöhnlich, aber nicht ausgeschlossen von der Realität! Psychothriller mit u.a.a heftigen Szenen sowie soliden Schockeffekten, besticht mit guten Schauspielern! Hab mir wenig erwartet und wurde sehr überrascht!
Fazit: Psychothrill der unter die Haut geht und die Spannung gezielt steigert bis zur Auflösung......Top!!!
- William HermannReviewed in the United States on 30 September 2009
4.0 out of 5 stars I Would Adopt Esther in a Heartbeat
I originally skipped this movie because a) the trailer made it look AWFUL, b) killer kid movies are usually pretty tame and lame and c) the last Vera Farmiga killer kid movie I saw, which was indeed Joshua, sucked. Usually the kids never really do anything that awful... you know, push a few people into traffic here, knock someone out of a treehouse there... kid stuff. Not so Orphan! The blood starts flowing early, and doesn't let up! So let's get down yeah baby let's get down!
We begin in blur-o-vision with Vera as Kate being wheeled into a hospital to have a baby. She starts bleeding profusely. The nurse says sorry, the baby's dead as a rock, but Kate says no, I can feel it kicking, then they present her with a nasty bloody infant--and she wakes! Actually you could totally tell it was a dream from all the blurriness and surreality. She's having issues because her last pregnancy was a stillbirth, which might have something to do with her former alcoholism, and the fact that she's going to start shopping for replacement kids that weekend, because she feels like she needs to because the stillbirth let down her husband, John.
Actually this family is a hotbed of issues. They have a young daughter, Max, who is deaf because of something involving the pond out back of their de rigueur fabulous home, which is Kate's fault because she was hitting the booze when she should have been minding the kids. There are other issues, which get doled out later, but I'll just dump it all now. Her husband, John, had affairs back when. Anything else? Seems like there's more... Anyway, Kate obviously still has some serious issues, because she nearly has a car accident with little Max in the car. I read a review that said it's better when evil kids are placed in good families, but here it's important that Kate be a mess with a poor history of child care so it will make it plausible later that SHE is having issues and the new adoptee they get is an innocent cherub.
The movie is a little worried that its audience won't be able to sustain their attention, so there are a few absolutely pointless jump scares up front. Does ANYONE enjoy these? Join me in starting a petition to ban the inclusion of pointless jump scares in modern crap horror. Together, we can move mountains.
So they go to the orphanage where they barely look at the other girls before they meet creepy Esther upstairs painting eerily accomplished pictures. If you know the twist of the movie, which I knew going in, a lot of the stuff up here makes sense later. Her picture is about a mommy lion who lost her kids, but turns out they were alive and she found them--so there's some thematic resonance with Kate and John. They're both charmed by her maturity and poise, and decide to wrap her up and take her home. Sister Abigail, the kindly nun at the orphanage, tells them she came from Russia [listen for her on-again off-again accent] and that the family that brought her over died in a fire. She also tells them that Esther never gives them any trouble--except when they try to remove the ribbons that she wears around her neck and wrists. John and Kate think it's just a Russian thing, and there's no more about it. If you're familiar with the classic ghost story "The Velvet Ribbon," you know there's something going on under there, but, well, I guess John and Kate aren't up on their classic ghost stories.
So they bring her home, where Max takes an immediate shine to her, but she's not liked by their older son, Daniel. Also present is Grandma Barbara, John's mother, who has quite a few sharp insinuations to make about Kate's mothering skills. I took one look at her and thought "Well, guess who's fated to die?" But of course I can't reveal what actually transpires. I need to also mention at some point that Kate has really annoying hair, and it stays annoying throughout the whole movie.
Now there's just a bunch of development stuff. There's a snotty future-victim girl at school that makes fun of Esther. Kate shows Esther a rose bush where she put the ashes of her stillborn daughter, and "as long as it keeps growing" she'll know the girl is in heaven or whatever. Obviously that bush is another future victim! Esther has a bizarre thick Russian bible she keeps hidden, but wussy Kate, who is afraid to set boundaries, doesn't look at it. There's a hot divorcee in town putting the moves on John. Then there's a funny sequence in which the snotty girl from school walks around this wooden playset while all these horror music cues play. It's the most terrifying playground equipment in movie history! Esther shows up out of nowhere and shoves her, but unfortunately the girl lives. Snore. Luckily Esther is about to up the savagery big time.
SPOILERS > > >
So then Sister Abigail comes to call, saying they have to do a factory recall on Esther. The little monster overhears and enlists Max, who is her little confidante, to break into John's safe, where she finds a gun! She holds the gun to little six-year-old Max's head--whoa!--then grabs a hammer and they head out by the snowy bridge. This is all in the dead of winter, by the way. As Abigail is driving away, Esther shoves Max into her way, she swerves, wrecks the car, and gets out to blubber over her, at which point Esther bludgeons her with the hammer! Innocent Max is all weepy, when Esther says "Stop crying! Grab a foot and help me get her off the road!" They do, and since she's still moaning, Esther repeatedly bashes her skull in, getting all bloody in the process. This is no tame kinda-mean kid movie! Esther implies all sorts of badness that might happen to Max and or mommy and daddy if Max tells. Soon she's holding a box cutter to Daniel's throat and extorting his silence as well. We also see that Esther's paintings have whole layers of violent content that only appears under black light--neat trick!
By now Kate is starting to have her suspicions, but John is telling her that she's nuts and has always been a psycho with serious issues anyway. Esther has been sweetening up to daddy big time, and when he tells her Kate might love it if she did something nice for her, Esther brings her flowers--remember the rose bush we knew wasn't long for this world? Kate freaks and jerks Esther around by the arm, but John defends the little girl. Then Esther goes into the workroom, and breaks her own arm in the vice! This girl is hardcore. She tells daddy, and he tells Kate to sleep downstairs.
Kate high-tails it to the liquor store, and while I don't mean to be callous about alcoholism, it's always a blast in movies when recovering alcoholics give up and hit the booze! Kate brings the booze back home [uh, IDIOT?] and pours one bottle out without opening the other. Then Esther puts the car in neutral with Max in it, making it look like Kate is endangering the kids again, and when she gets back home, Esther has of course pointed out the empty wine bottle. John tells her if she's not in rehab within a week, he's leaving and taking the kids. You in the audience are sitting there thinking "He is going to owe her the world's biggest apology..."
By this time it's full-on war between Kate and Esther, although Kate is still being a wuss and won't go full-on with it. For example, WHY does the idiot do her research into Esther's background while right there in the house with Esther and the snotty grandmother? They HAVE internet cafes, you know. You can get wireless at any Starbucks. Anyway, while this is going on, Daniel is out trying to get the evidence of Abigail's death out of the treehouse, when Esther locks him in there and sets it on fire. He ends up falling and having to be taken to the hospital, where Esther loses no time in trying to finally off him for good. This is partly the fault of smug moron grandma, who I can now reveal lives to the end, although if there was anyone I wanted to die... Anyway, Kate freaks and attacks Esther, and now KATE is stuck in the hospital. Geeze, and RIGHT when that crucial call comes in from the mysterious Russian orphanage with the answers to Esther's past! Sure hope Kate checks her voice mail in timely fashion.
Well, now it's John that's hitting the booze and cigarettes. Esther comes downstairs in a sexy black dress and makeup, and puts the moves on dad. He suddenly has a big breakdown, which kind of comes out of the blue since he seemed at best slightly irritated by the whole situation, but finally tells her no. Meanwhile, at his hospital, Kate finally gets that important call! And the secret twist is...
MEGA-SPOILERS! ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO KNOW? > > >
It's no Russian orphanage--it's an Estonian mental institution! And guess what? Esther is no nine-year-old. She has a chromosomal imbalance and is actually 33 YEARS OLD! She moves into families, splits the mom and dad up, and tries to seduce the dad. When he refuses, she kills them all!
This, of course, happens during a driving snowstorm. Now, there's no way I'm going to spoil the awesome ending for you, as it's just too wild, but I will make a few observations. First, Kate becomes a serious offender of distracted driving. John finds some secret paintings of him and Esther doing the hokey-pokey, but you'll notice that in then Esther is full-sized, because there is NO WAY any movie is going to show, you know, THAT. Next, I don't know how I might react in such a situation, but if I were to find a bloody corpse in my house with the murderer still at large on the premises, I doubt I would waste precious survival time blubbering over the corpse. Maybe I'm just cold. We again learn that if the psychopathic murderer is just knocked down and unconscious, do not leave them alone until you have put a bullet in their head! And finally, looks like Kate's never gonna get that apology...
Before we get out of the spoilers, I want to point out that the reason most killer kid movies are so lame is precisely that the evil ones ARE kids, and as such can't really be too bad without peeving parent's associations and outraging religious groups. Therefore, the whole reason Esther CAN be so bad is precisely that she's NOT a kid. Which is part of what makes this movie so uncomfortable for so long--you can't BELIEVE this kid is pushing six-year-olds into traffic and bludgeoning old nuns, and it definitely takes you out of the comfort zone... which is part of why I believe this movie is considered "bad." But we'll pick this up after we invite the non-spoiler folks back in.
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In retrospect, I wouldn't say this movie is really that "bad," I would just say that it is so discomfiting for so long--she's just a KID!--that it makes you feel a little funny. And then, this twist is SUCH a leap--although a fairly ingenious one, I think--that it maybe jars the audience a little too much. And it comes a little late in the movie, too, for such a big re-arrangement of everything you thought you understood. And as you know, when people are uncomfortable and don't understand a movie, they usually decide that it's bad. Why, even look at me: I started this review thinking this was a bad movie in the vein of Knowing, but now, after a little processing [and a day's time] I kind of think it's pretty clever.
Which is not to say it's not still a hoot. The movie has a fair amount of setup--most of which is relevant, so I don't begrudge the two hour-plus running time. I was snickering throughout, and the whole thing is a great deal of evil fun. Furthermore, it seems to know it, and has tongue planted in cheek. Nevertheless, I think one would be better prepared if one didn't go in expecting a GOOD movie.
Anyway, yeah, tons of fun! Yay, Orphan! Yay, killer kids! Go in expecting a big silly potboiler and Esther'll show you a good time.
- tlynReviewed in the United States on 4 July 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars A Nail biter !
This was one of the best and most frightening horror movies that I have seen in a long time. I used to love scary movies but hadn't watched one in quite some time, the more they frightened me the better. This one really was very surprising and actually made me jump off the couch. It was not predictable as many others and kept me on the edge of the couch , even my husband jumped a couple times and he doesn't frighten easily.
This was all because of a little girl that was adopted into a family from a Catholic orphanage , her name was Esther. A seemingly smart , sweet, innocent , pretty little girl but looks can be deceiving as the family soon came to find out. Esther seems to get very close (wanting to be too close) to the Father and the little sister named "Max" but doesn't quite want to connect with the brother or her adopted mother. It's freaky right from the beginning to the end and there is a twist in the movie that I was not at all
expecting that really blew me away. If you want to see a real good scary movie - not some low budget crap this is awesome. I didn't or couldn't move during the whole movie. I wanted ice cream but was too afraid to choke eating it ! My chest was pounding so hard. Be ready for some real surprises that you would never expect.
I am in no hurry to ever meet any little girls named Esther for a long while. This young girl should have won an award for
her role in this movie and the little girl that played the little sister (she was deaf) if she was not in real life should win one too. You will not stop for popcorn once you start this movie , it's that good. I'm still a little afraid to go to bed ! It's dark in there...