Emilio Martinez who shot me an email just the other day with a heads up
about new pictures from the latest in Spanish horror, and a film that I’m
personally really looking forward to seeing; EL ORFANATO.
Now some of you may have seen
articles about this bad boy in the past. Being directed by
Juan Bayona and produced by Guillermo Del
Toro, the film is a traditional ghost story, and it looks freaky as hell. The
story of EL ORFANATO is as follows:
Laura spent the
happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared
for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now,
thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos, and Simon, their
7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned
orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious
surroundings awaken Simon’s imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of
fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games. A troubling web that begins to
disturb Laura, drawing her into the child’s strange universe which resonates
with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply unsettling memories of her own childhood.
As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Carlos remains
skeptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for
attention. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and
terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict
appalling damage on her family.
With the film definitely appearing
to be in the same vein as Del Toro’s own ghost story,
THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE, this flicks sure
to be something to see. So if your digging the picture above and the one below,
jump over
here to see more pictures and
here to see the trailer.