The Orphanage
2007 · 105 min · Horror / Drama / Thriller · TMDB 7.2
The short version:Spanish gothic ghost story about a missing child. Beautiful, sad, with a couple of good scares. The ending wrecks people.
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Scare profile
Editorial baseline. Add your own report to refine it.
Scary3
Not scaryExtreme
Dread4
RelaxedSuffocating
Jump scares2
NoneConstant
Disturbing3
ForgettableHaunts you
Grim4
Fun ridePunishing
Synopsis
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
What is in it
Intensity: brief means implied, off-screen or a single moment; heavy means graphic, prolonged or central. Items marked “inferred from keywords” come from TMDB tags and have not been confirmed by a person.
Violence & gore
- Graphic goreBriefeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- A car accident leaves one character disfigured, shown briefly.
Children & pregnancy
- Child harmed or killedHeavyeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- Children die, mostly off screen; the circumstances are revealed late and are devastating.
- Child in dangerHeavyeditorial
Body & medical
- Body horrorBriefeditorial
- Disease & terminal illnessBriefeditorial
Mental health & grief
- Grief & bereavementHeavyeditorial
- SuicideModerateeditorial
Phobias & sensory
- Car crashBriefeditorial
- Claustrophobia & confinementBriefinferred from keywords