The Orphanage (“El Orfanato”)

I’m kind of interested in watching this movie, but I’m too chicken to watch it by myself,

If you haven’t heard about The Orphanage yet, check the trailer out. It’s sounds like a great psychological / thriller movie to get you thinking and jumping out of your seats.

The plot: “The Orphanage centers on a Laura (Belén Rueda) who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children.

Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens her sons imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing.

Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place.” (Credit: IMDB.com)

It’s produced by Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth“), so if you’ve seen that film, you’ll get the sense of what he’ll bring to this movie. My sister saw Pan’s Labyrinth last year when it came out and she said it scared the daylights out of her.

– A