Orphan

Dir: William Brent Bell. Starring: Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland, Matthew Finlan. 15, 99 minutes.A prequel to Orphan is such an odd proposition. Jaume Collet-Serra’s nasty but ultimately conventional 2009 horror film has only stuck around in the collective consciousness due to its listicle-friendly twist: the reveal that Esther, the homicidal young girl adopted by Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) Coleman, is in fact a 33-year-old Estonian woman named Leena Klammer, who was born with a…

The 2009 horror film Orphan relied on a truly daft dramatic conceit, one that depended entirely on the appearance and eerie maturity of then 12-year-old Isabelle Fuhrman as the parentless child of the title, named Esther for much of the film. But Fuhrman’s uncanny performance, supported by similarly beyond-call-of-duty turns from Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard and adept genre management from director Jaume Collet-Serra, somehow turned a mixed bag into a bizarrely elegant reticule of some distinction.This prequel, once…

x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YexURhHowdE We’re just 10 days away from the long-awaited theatrical release of Orphan: First Kill, the prequel to the widely successful and critically acclaimed psychological horror opening installment. As we count down the days to discovering Esther’s (or should we say Lena’s) backstory, Empire have shared an exclusive clip that allows Lena — not Esther as we know her — to steal the spotlight for a chilling minute and 40 seconds. Just under a month ago, we received the official…

Krysten Ritter attends MOCA Gala 2022 at the Geffen Contemporary on June 04, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Robin L Marshall (Getty Images)While OG Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany is busy getting big and green for Marvel’s She-Hulk on Disney+, the next chapter of AMC’s clone-fascinated series has announced its star, and she happens to have her own Marvel connections: it’s Jessica Jones’ Krysten Ritter.Ritter will star in and executive produce Orphan Black: Echoes, according to Deadline; we’ve known it was in the…