A delightful, sweet family - Kate and John Coleman (played amazingly by the lovely Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard) adopt a nine-year old sweet, angel face Russian girl named Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) from a girls orphanage, and what they bring home is nothing angelic, but a ferocious, shady, wicked little ugly motherfucker with an edge to kill... How spooky and kooky is orphan Esther? Well, Esther is dominating and controlling. She wears gothic little house on the prairie outfits, with a black choker around her neck (she is hiding something), she walks around with an old bible with a few pictures of men in it, she loves to sing out loud sweet songs from the privacy of her room, she draws pretty little pictures of animals and her new family, she loves to hear adult conversations, she snoops around (watching her parents pull a dirty love session), she causes pain to herself and to others including her whole family. Her favorite deadly weapons - hammer, gun, butcher knife and a rock... Is Esther really a nine-year old girl or a midget?A wonderful cast, amazing acting, especially the incredible Vera Farmiga who also was a mother to another killer kid in the scary, horror, thriller JOSHUA (2007) - Also a must see. Vera has been in some great films (Down to The Bone, The Departed, The Boy With the Stripe Pajamas) and her performances are always top notch. The Direction by Jaume Collet-Serra (HOUSE OF WAX) and cinematography is remarkable.
"Orphan" is an amazing, mysterious, bloody, sinful, hellish ride, it will keep you on the edge of your seat - from the nightmarish beginning dream sequence to the last ending frame. One of the best horror films of the year. A MUST SEE. FOUR STARS
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