ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON DEC. 20, 2007 By Steve Newton Somebody ought to kidnap the directors of the Saw and Hostel films, strap them into those torture chairs they're so fond of, attach some eyelid clamps from A Clockwork Orange, and make them watch The Orphanage for a week straight. Maybe then they'd understand that unrelenting … Continue reading The Orphanage might be the most haunting haunted-house flick ever made
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The Orphanage director Juan Antonio Bayona loves when the ordinary world becomes a nightmare
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON DEC. 20, 2007 By Steve Newton Most people have a keen recollection of the first film that scared the crap out of them. For Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, it wasn't anything as fright-worthy as The Exorcist; he got creeped out by seeing Frank Langella go batty in a justifiably overlooked 1979 … Continue reading The Orphanage director Juan Antonio Bayona loves when the ordinary world becomes a nightmare