The Orphanage
Dir: Juan Antonio Bayona. Sp. 2007. 105mins.Executive-produced by Guillermo del Toro, currently riding the wave of international success with Pan's Labyrinth, this first feature from Juan Antonio Bayona is an excellent exercise in the Spanish-language subdivision of the horror-ghost genre that Del Toro (Cronos, The Devil's Backbone) more or less single-handedly invented.
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