The desire to have children has often served as a Invitation for demonic powers, above all in the classic The Omen and its blends. However, an original variation on this idea hit theaters in 2009.
Today’s TV tip makes us puzzle over satanic influences for a long time and at the same time convinces with its fantastic cast and the feeling for the psychological abysses of everyday life. What is meant is Orphan – The orphan with the later Conjuring demon hunter Vera Farmiga.
What is the horror movie Orphan about?
Vera Farmiga plays Kate Coleman, who is trying to find an adoptive child with her husband John (Peter Sarsgaard). Years ago, mother-of-two Kate lost a third child to stillbirth and subsequently became addicted to alcohol.
Check out the trailer for Orphan here:
Orphan The Orphan – Trailer (German) HD
She’s sober now, and her life is on the mend again. As if adoption would put an end to the trauma, she finds a new child in need of her care in 9-year-old Russian girl Esther (Esther).
However, since this is orphan and not Suddenly Family, the couple is quickly faced with greater challenges than just gaining the trust of a girl with a language barrier. Esther turns out to be an uncanny addition to the household, with bone-breaking consequences for their environment.
Orphan offers multi-layered horror horror with a top ensemble
Orphan relies far less on jump scares than Vera Farmiga’s various Conjuring films. The horror of the film by director Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows) arises on the one hand from the unpredictable presence of Esther. This combines numerous types of characters from different genres, sometimes innocent bad child, sometimes disturbing femme fatale, sometimes ghostly presence.
Isabelle Fuhrman, with the help of David Leslie Johnson’s screenplay, makes one hook after the other, so that we can can never be sure what Esther will do next. It’s a fantastically versatile performance in an ensemble not to be scoffed at.
on the other hand the horror is already in this family, long before Esther is at the door. At its core, Orphan is a drama about a family’s repressed trauma and a married couple’s unresolved conflicts. The psychic abysses that we see in Orphan are already there. All it takes is someone with way too much curiosity to explore them. That’s where Esther comes in.
a notice: We published this article in a similar form in June 2021.
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How did you like the first orphan film?