The Orphanage Film Review (2006)

Director: Juan Antonio Bayona

Production Company: Telecino cinema & Warner Bros Espana

The Orphanage is a great change from the films i usually watch and it is true to the horror genre. With its eery atmosphere and a soundtrack that induces goosebumps and sends shivers down your spine. The characters are well matched, the script is well written, the dramatic pauses are well placed which leave the audience anticipating what's going to happen next in an unsettling silence and from the establishing shot at the start of the film you know you are in for a real horror show.

This film contained a vast range of themes found in the horror genre. Creepy children that make yoiu aware of their presence when you hear them giggle, supernatural occurrences figues vansishing, death, abandoned buildings with a gloomy background story, blood, jump scares at times where you least expect it.