Orphan [Blu-ray]

Orphan [Blu-ray] Review

This is the third time this movie has been remade. The original was made in 1956 called The Bad Seed. It was about this 11-year-old girl who, although looked cute and innocent with those blonde pigtails, was really in fact evil. I watched snippets of the film and didn't find it scary at all. Then in 1993 there was "The Good Son", starring Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood. Henry (played by Culkin) appears to be the good son, but Mark (Wood) sees his true colours. This movie scared me. Macaulay Culkin's performance is phenomenal; a 10, no question. Now Orphan (2009) takes a different approach. Here you have a 9-year-old girl named Esther. Esther is orphaned because her adopted parents were killed and the house was burned down. Again, Esther seems sweet and innocent, but evil lurks behind. The end of the movie shocked me, and probably a few other people too. I was not expecting it. Isabelle Fuhrman plays Esther, and she does a remarkable job in the role. Hope to see her in future movies.

Orphan [Blu-ray] Feature

• ISBN13: 0883929049400
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Orphan [Blu-ray] Overview

Tragedy seems to follow nine-year-old Esther. She was orphaned in her native Russia. Her last adoptive family perished in a fire Esther barely escaped. But now the Coleman family has adopted her, and life is good. Until a classmate takes a serious fall from a slide. Until an orphanage nun is battered to death. And until Esther’s new mom wonders if that tragic fire was an accident. From Dark Castle Productions comes Orphan, bringing stunning new twists to the psychological thriller and locking audiences in a tightening vise of mystery, suspicion and terror. You’ll never forget Esther. So sweet. So intelligent. So creative. So disturbed.

Features:
- Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children: cast and crew reinvent the evil kid genre and discuss notable movie psychopaths
- Additional scenes, including an alternate ending
- BD-Live features

Orphan [Blu-ray] Specifications

A bad seed with a Russian accent, 9-year-old Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) is a nasty little girl with a nasty little plan. Unfortunately, this malevolent tyke has landed in the home of adoptive parents Kate and John (Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard), an unsuspecting couple with two kids of their own and considerable grief over recent family tragedies. It doesn't take long for Esther to make her creepy presence known, as broken limbs on the playground and torched tree houses can attest. Give this movie some credit--the psychological underpinnings are all set carefully in place: Maternal trauma? Check. Backyard pond as emotionally charged danger zone? Check. Feminist parable about husbands not listening to troubled wives? Check. The casting of reputable actors such as Farmiga and Sarsgaard also ups the movie's class quotient; Farmiga in particular has an emotional workout, and this gifted actress strikes few false notes even as the scenario becomes increasingly lurid. (There's some déjà vu here: Farmiga also played a mother realizing her kid was "not right" in Joshua, a much superior film.) Director Jaume Collet-Serra, of House of Wax notoriety, knows full well the unsettling weirdness of seeing a child commit murderous mayhem, and he presses all the buttons with something like unholy joy. The movie begins to drive off the rails even before a clumsy twist hits the fan near the end, and at that point, the mechanical exercise becomes downright silly. The Omen's Damien has nothing to worry about. --Robert Horton

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