Orphan. Oh silly kids.
I classify Orphan as a feel good thriller. A movie where you know the bad guy will die and justice will prevail. I mean, as feel good as it can be with multiple head bashings.
Orphan takes a tried and true formula and films it in a way that is reminiscent of Scream era horror. You have your female lead that is trying to convince the world that Esther is a manipulative bitch. You have the passive father who is so damn oblivious you want to choke him. You have the evil adopted child that gets away with everything that you’ll be screaming,“God dammit. Quit being so frustrating!”
But Orphan differs in that it truly earned it’s R rating. This is not a Rob Zombie film where the violence is so gruesome that you turn away or is so frequent that its like watching pigs get slaughtered. Orphan has very well paced (and graphic) violent scenes that’ll shock you at the frankness of it. It’s subtle and in ways mental. The little girl getting pushed off the swing set, the bashing of the pigeon, the cruelty in the white roses offering not to mention the multiple stabbings of the husband.
Orphan takes you for a fun ride. You won’t be truly frightened at any point but you find yourself rooting for the main characters and wondering what crazy things Esther will do next.
SPOILER QUESTIONS:
Things to ponder: Is it pedophilia if the woman in question is 33 but looks like a 9 year old dwarf?
And also, since she ‘kills’ the families where the dads don’t comply with her seduction; does that mean the dads that didn’t die willingly slept with a 9 year old?
Awesome.
