Orphan Trailer: Yet Another Freaky Child
What is it about children that scares us so much? From the little girls playing jump rope singing “one two, Freddy’s coming for you,” to adorable killer vampire children in Let the Right One In horror films love scary, possessed, killers children. Think about it. Horror films have one of two things: Boobs or scary children. If there isn’t some stupid blond running around half naked covered in blond there is a child trying to kill you in some way. You have Danny from The Shining yelling “REDRUM,” the attack of the killer blond children in The Village of the Damned and the freaky devil child from Unborn; scary movies love having freaky children.
Orphan is about a husband (Peter Sarsgaar) and wife (Vera Farmiga) who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl (Isabelle Fuhrman) named Esther. Not long after they bring her home, odd things begin to happens and they think that there’s something wrong with Esther and pretty soon things begin to spiral out of control and be learn Esther may not be as innocent as she seems.
Check it out below…
If there is one thing horror movies have taught us, it’s to never adopt children. Apparently all adopted children are plagued with a murderous demon inside of them.
What do you think? Scary movie worth seeing? Or just another adaptation of an old plot?
Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:49AM
Seriously, I hate little kids in scary movies. The only part I was scared of in Blair Witch was when the children were giggling in the middle of the night. This movie looks awful, but I'll be scared if she's a ghost or something. This is one to avoid.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:29PM
A lot of adoptive parents are angry about one line in this film: It must be hard to love an adopted child like your own.
They are angry about this movie line but are perfectly content that their adopted child has a birth certificate that was permanently sealed from him/her and a falsified "amended" one issued.
Adoptees have to live their lives carrying around amended birth certificates and are NEVER allowed to see their original birth certificates containing their true names and the names of his/her true biological parents. Adopting parents get to have their names placed on the amended certificates as the birth parents! What lies!!!! These violations of a childs rights does not concern the protestors because it works for them! It is not their ethnicities, their heritages that are sealed. No, their newly purchased child will be forced to accept these lies are his/her truth. These self-righteous people own the copyrights to their adopted child's identity and could care less that it's FICTION that is on their child's birth certificate.
Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:29PM
It is downright disgraceful and pathetic what people choose to protest.
Getting angry over one-liners and not giving a hoot about our (adoptees) civil rights is laughable.
That's why I'm wearing my Orphan movie t-shirt on opening day… http://www.cafepress.com/orphanesther
…because Esther just want her OBC.
Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:00PM
When I first saw the trailer I thought to myself, "Oh, no, another evil kid horror movie. That concept is SO over-done," but I actually want to see this because it seems more of a psychological thriller than a slasher flick. There's something much more alluring and attractive about dealing with the characters' psyches. In slasher flicks, you're just running away from serial killers, but in this sort of movie — with manipulative characters — you're fighting with your own mind. You can hide well enough from a killer, but you can't hide from your mind.
Besides, Isabelle Fuhrman is so freakin' cuuuuuute dressed up as Esther!!! And she seems like a pretty good actor (which can't be said of all children in horror films) and does a nice job on that Russian accent. =]
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:44PM
i think its worth seeing it looks good and scary movies are the bomb
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:42AM
Hey there was a movie in the arly 80's just like this, but I don't recall the name of it and I don't think it was one listed above in the blurb. Anyone had any ideas of other similar movie titles??? This is driving my nuts(but not in a scarey psycho kid way:)
J
Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:21PM
you might be thinking, "The Good Son" with Macaulay Culkin.. that's what first came to my mind when i saw the trailer. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107034/
Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:00AM
man that girl was 33 years old and just killing some inocent kids man she bad