“The Orphanage is dark, eerie, disturbing, suspenseful, and genuinely frightening, without resorting to cheap cinematic tricks or gruesome special effects.”
“It isn’t about the killer, or even the killings. It is an meticulous examination of the effects wrought on the lives of the people investigating the crime, both police and journalists.”
“I admit to a certain fascination with French science-fiction’s tropes: American cars, Egyptian gods, female assassins (and Nixon, although he doesn’t appear in this film).”
“The story is set in a Hollywood version of a desolate Old West town. Jesus is a zoot-suited anachronism who wants to be an “actor/singer/dancer.” The Holy Ghost wears a sheet with holes cut out for eyes and a mouth, and the Father is a black-clad gunslinger without guns.”
“I was 14 years old when I saw Zardoz in the theater. (Do the math, kids.) It was the first R rated movie I’d ever seen, so here’s how I might have described it to my friends after that first viewing.”