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Has anyone else here seen it? What did you think?

What did YOU think?

From the trailers and TV spots it kind of reminds me of The Good Son.

What's "Orphan" about?

TRANS+CRAZY wrote:What's "Orphan" about?

Little psychotic adopted girl is nuts and kills people, the mother tries to tell everyone, but no one believes her.

Shadowman wrote:Little psychotic adopted girl is nuts and kills people, the mother tries to tell everyone, but no one believes her.

Ah, okay. I only saw the poster for the movie at my local theater when I saw ROTF.

Shadowman wrote:

TRANS+CRAZY wrote:What's "Orphan" about?

Little psychotic adopted girl is nuts and kills people, the mother tries to tell everyone, but no one believes her.

Sounds similar to (I believe the film was done in the 1950s)
"The Bad Seed" about a little girl without a conscience(sp); just a rearrangement of the family dynamic.

Friend of Da Panda Symbol wrote:Sounds similar to (I believe the film was done in the 1950s)
"The Bad Seed" about a little girl without a conscience(sp); just a rearrangement of the family dynamic.

1956 to be exact. It's part of the film cycle. We get tired of 'crazy beyotches' (Single White Female, Fatal Attraction, Obsessed) and move on to 'crazy children'. (The Exorcist, The Omen, The Bad Seed). Strange how we don't have a lot of 'crazy psycho daddies'--the only one that springs to my mind (correct me if I'm missing a bunch) is, of course, The Shining.

GT: we're still waiting to hear your impressions!!!!!

HK, dem wimminfolks is crazazy!

hellkitty wrote:

Friend of Da Panda Symbol wrote:Sounds similar to (I believe the film was done in the 1950s)
"The Bad Seed" about a little girl without a conscience(sp); just a rearrangement of the family dynamic.

1956 to be exact. It's part of the film cycle. We get tired of 'crazy beyotches' (Single White Female, Fatal Attraction, Obsessed) and move on to 'crazy children'. (The Exorcist, The Omen, The Bad Seed). Strange how we don't have a lot of 'crazy psycho daddies'--the only one that springs to my mind (correct me if I'm missing a bunch) is, of course, The Shining.

GT: we're still waiting to hear your impressions!!!!!

HK, dem wimminfolks is crazazy!

There was also a movie called The Stepfather, 1986 IIRC, it's currently being remade for a release later this year.

i seen it.... its cool.... but that mom is HOT!

I liked the movie. I thought it was suspenseful and the ending/twist was pretty good. You knew that something wasn't as it had been protrayed, like, not to spoil it or anything, but you knew that there was more to the little girl than you were being told but I have to say, I'm not a stupid man, but it kind of surprised me when all was revealed. I'd recommend seeing Orphan, but maybe waiting until you can rent it. With the price of movie tickets these days....(old cranky man babble ensues...)...but it was a very good movie.

Dagon wrote:With the price of movie tickets these days....(old cranky man babble ensues...)...

The two theaters near me only charge $3 (The farther one) or $5 (The closer and nicer one) for adult matinees. I think I get bragging rights for that or something.

Shadowman wrote:

Dagon wrote:With the price of movie tickets these days....(old cranky man babble ensues...)...

The two theaters near me only charge $3 (The farther one) or $5 (The closer and nicer one) for adult matinees. I think I get bragging rights for that or something.

Geez, that's awesome. I grant you bragging rights.

I never liked movies about evil children. You're twice her size just push her out a window and tell the cops she was playing Supergirl, they'll buy it. It's not that they can't stop them, it's that they won't and that annoys me.

Evil_the_Nub wrote:I never liked movies about evil children. You're twice her size just push her out a window and tell the cops she was playing Supergirl, they'll buy it. It's not that they can't stop them, it's that they won't and that annoys me.

Problem with that theory is, if they're demons or demonically possessed, you're crap out of luck with a ploy like that.

Quite doubtful the fall or whatever would do the trick, and even if it did work, the parents have become no better than the creature they were trying to stop, and therefore the Devil has won.

I haven't seen Orphan, so I don't know whether she's psychologically messed up, or possessed, but in movies like The Good Son? Yeah, throw 'em in a wheat thresher and keep walkin'.

lol