Movie Review: The Orphanage

If you enjoy a good ghost story and don't mind subtitles, you should check out The Orphanage This movie was given 4 stars by Roger Ebert and called a superior ghost story.

This movie is well produced, has a good story line with an ending that I wasn't anticipating. A young woman and her husband return to the orphanage she grew up in. They plan to manage a home for handicapped children there (the orphanage is no longer in operation), but before long, things are definitely out of whack. Their adopted son starts speaking to invisible friends and even leads his mother on a treasure hunt that the friends have designed... (though she believes he set it up). The bizarre fun quickly turns to horror when the boy disappears and can't be found.

I give this movie four out of five stars. I really enjoyed it and it was a fantastic ghost story.