• Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (director of Pan’s Labyrinth) presents The Orphanage, a chilling ghost story about a woman who discovers dark and horrific secrets hidden within her cherished childhood home and her desperate attempt to rescue her family from the nightmare into which she unwittingly led them.Running Time: 105 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rati

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Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (director of Pan’s Labyrinth) presents The Orphanage, a chilling ghost story about a woman who discovers dark and horrific secrets hidden within her cherished childhood home and her desperate attempt to rescue her family from the nightmare into which she unwittingly led them.Amazon.com
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The Orphanage

5 Responses to “The Orphanage”

1. Tracy Mackey says:

   March 9, 2010 at 12:43 am

   Very unhappy with this movie, I didn’t know it was written in spanish, will not order any more movies from amazon. I didn’t even watch the movie. It was a waste of money. We live in the USA not Mexico
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. Shane Johnson says:

   March 9, 2010 at 12:44 am

   …..You have got to be kidding me!!!! How are so many people rating this movie so good? It may be a great movie, but not if I have to read the whole damn thing!!!! Am I missing something here? I went thru all controls and found nothing in english without subtitles. Is there an english version of this movie that I dont know about? …..unbelievable!!!
   Rating: 1 / 5
3. Midge says:

   March 9, 2010 at 1:15 am

   This movie is in Spanish only and this director & his producer need to be boycotted on any movie they make. False advertising. They have the DVD cover and title in English… but to watch the movie, you either have to read subtitles or closed captioning. It is a sham to use false advertising to sell to unsuspecting shoppers. They did the same thing with Pans Labrynth.

   It also would not have been a huge imposition on the director and producer to provide an Alternate English audio option like we do on our English speaking movies. This is the second and last time this director will ever sell any movies to me. I will never buy another of his movies even if every movie he makes from this point on is in English… because he’s used up any trust we may have had. So when his career goes in the dumper in the US… don’t blame the economy. Blame yourself for deceptive advertising and printing the DVD cover in English. If the cover and title had been in Spanish to begin with, we wouldn’t be so irate because we would not have bought it in the first place. I have thousands of movies in my collection but this will be the last time this director ever darkens my viewing.

   I have nothing against Spanish. In fact I lived in Panama for 2 years.. but I don’t want my movies in Spanish and I certainly don’t appreciate the deliberately deceptive False English DVD cover and Title to make us think the movie is in English.

   If any of our US producers or Directors put a Spanish label and Spanish Title on a DVD cover and tried to pass it off to the Spanish speaking countries … and then only had the movie in English or French… I suspect their consumers would be very angry as well.

   They wouldn’t like it anymore than the Germans would want to watch a movie in Arabic or Chinese.

   Amazon is also responsible for this deception by allowing it to be marketed in English. If a movie is in Spanish, then the Title should also be in Spanish. And since this is an English website… it should have a huge warning at the top of the page telling English speaking shoppers that this movie is in Spanish only!

   And as an added note: This director does cheesy, immature camera effects. Near the end, he just goes nuts with his 360 camera rotating around the main character… it seemed like 5 minutes of nothing but spinning. It got so monotonous I had to fast forward just to get away from it. This is something a 16 year old would do shooting a movie in his garage for a school project.

   And let’s not forget that the kid with the sack over his head was a cheap takeoff on Jason from the “Friday the 13th” movie series.

   Avoid this director and producer like the plague!!!
   Rating: 1 / 5
4. christopher cornwall says:

   March 9, 2010 at 3:51 am

   Ok,this movie sucked …first off

   -Slapstick music doesnt go well with a supposed horror movie.
   
   -there was only 1 scary part in the whole hour and 45 min of the movie
   
   -Subtitles(I WANT TO BE ABLE TO WATCH THE MOVIE,NOT THE DAMN SUBTITLES)

   This movie was a waste of time and money.To be honest I cut the movie off about an hour into it.

   LOL aND I’M sorry but if you got scaRED by this movie…you’re…a….panzy…
   Rating: 1 / 5
5. Lyle Gucwa says:

   March 9, 2010 at 4:39 am

   There should be a warning on the front of the DVD case that this movie is only available in Spanish… how can anyone enjoy a horror movie that they have to read through everything, I shut the movie off half way through and returned it to the store for a refund.
   Rating: 1 / 5