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The Orphanage - saynomore - 01-10-2008
If you liked Pan's Laberinth and The Devil's Spine, then Guillermo del Toro's latest, The Orphanage, will surpass your expectations. As with PL, it is a tale of childhood lost, and as with TDS, it is a ghost story. If you are familiar with the current wave of Thai-Horror, then you should be surprisingly pleased with TO, which coalesces horror with sentimentality: fears and tears. Worth a second and third view.
AC
P.S. I saw it at an Art Theater in limited release, and I don't know if it will gain wide release. Best to catch it now.
The Orphanage - GeraldRice - 01-10-2008
I saw the briefest of previews on tv the other day. I don't know if it was a local station or not so I don't know if it'll be in MI. It looked interesting and maybe it'll be at the art house thingie in Royal Oak, but that's probably one I couldn't convince the missus to go see. I'll have to keep it in mind because I can't even add it into my Blockbuster queue yet.