Orphan

Had heard this was a god horror, and as it was showing on Film 4 as part of the frightfest season i decide it was about time to check it out. And i was not disappointed!

Dark, edgy, twisted, effective, clever, intense, and blackly comic - one of the best "evil child" films I've seen. Brilliantly acted by the child actors, usually hit and miss in a movie like this, these kids were perfect in this.

Kate (Vera Farmiga) is a recovering alcoholic, after the near death of her daughter and she recently gave birth to a still-born baby girl. She's out of work, and her mother-in-law is a hateful pain in the ass. Things could be going better.
But with the help of her husband and a therapist shes on the road to recovery, and the suggestion that adopting seems like a great solution.

Esther: "I think people should always try to take the bad things that happen to them in their lives,

and turn them into something goo. Dont you?"

Sadly, as we've been informed by a harrowing opening sequence, this is not a movie about things just working out. Instead, the arrival of Esther, a nine-year-old girl from Russia, but orphaned in the US when her previous foster family died in a house fire, serves to expedite the gradual unraveling of a happy home.

Things unravel quickly as it becomes clear that Esther is not all she seems, and seems hell bent on ripping this family apart.
through a serious of events she manages to form a rift between Kate and husband John (Peter Saarsgard) and become feared by both of their kids into silence.

The twist is well handled and suitably creepy, but the movie often falls into horror cliche, especially at the end with the 'almost unkillable' protagonist.

so if you like your horror suspenseful,with a good story and well directed then it is well worth having a look!

7/10