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Fueled by her happy memories of growing up in a seaside orphanage, a woman and her husband decide to purchase her childhood home and turn it into a home for children with disabilities. Shortly after they move in, with the aid of their adopted clairvoyant seven-year-old son and a professional medium (the great Geraldine Chaplin), they discover that the building is home to a number of unquiet spirits. The movie builds to unsettling creepy images and white-knuckle tension, including a memorable séance scene. The Orphanage is the debut film of J. A. Bayona, who has gone on to a successful Hollywood career while still making notable Spanish movies (most recently the Oscar-nominated Society of the Snow). In Spanish with English subtitles. (105 mins., DCP)Goreometer: 2 / 4Atmospheric tension and creepy children.See the entire International Horror lineup.IMAGE CAPTIONThe Orphanage, courtesy Warner Bros.
