There's something wrong with Esther.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett, Margo Martindale, Karel Roden, Aryana Engineer |
Director |
Jaume Collet-Serra |
Screenplay | David Johnson, Alex Mace |
Music | John Ottman |
Cinematography | Jeff Cutter |
Editing | Timothy Alverson |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Made in | 2009 |
Produced by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment, Appian Way, Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures, Studio Canal, DCP Orphan Productions, Don Carmody Productions |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large | Scroll down for embedded trailer
Genre | Horror, drama |
Language | Strong, fairly infrequent |
Nudity | Brief sexual nudity — breasts, pubic area in drawing |
Sex | Strong simulated sex and sexual conduct, seduction |
Violence | Strong psychological and physical violence, bloody, fairly graphic and gory |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | Brief use, infrequent, in context |
Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Washington post | 5 | |
Die Burger Pual Boekkooi | 5 | |
Cape Times Kirk Honeycutt Horror lost to childish tricks | 10 | |
Box Office Pete Hammond This kitschy horror item about a nice suburban couple with two kids whose adoption of an orphaned Russian child turns out to be a not-so-hot move has enough kinky Grand Guignol moments and scenes of sheer terror to make a quick killing at the box office — even though it borrows from just about every other Bad Seed flick Hollywood has ever unleashed. | 10 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Rosemary would have been happy to have this baby. Here is a shamelessly effective horror film based on the most diabolical of movie malefactors, a child. | 18 | |
eye Weekly Adam Nayman A bad-taste classic in waiting, Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan restages The Good Son with more sodomy and a little Russian émigré in place of Macaulay Culkin. | 5 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli Although the picture concludes with the expected kick-ass one-liner, it feels hollow and pointless. It would be harder to find a more dark and joyless thriller on the market than this one. | 8 | |
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Orphan might feel just like its title once it leaves theaters and the company of viewers willing to go along for the over-the-top ride. | 8 | |
Metacritic.com 25 critics | 8 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 120 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer While it has moments of dark humor and the requisite scares, Orphan fails to build on its interesting premise and degenerates into a formulaic, sleazy horror/thriller. | 11 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 4449 Netizens Excellent horror thriller! | 14 | |
Average .. 47% | 9 |