Bring Home an Orphan this Halloween

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With that ominous tagline “There’s something wrong with Esther”, it was difficult to escape the marketing campaign for this year’s horror/chiller Orphan. Fans of actress and star of Orphan Vera Farmiga cringed a bit at the film’s “evil child” subject matter since she just did a similar film in 2007 – Joshua. Farmiga seems to have a soft spot for these evil children movies.

In Orphan, John and Kate (played by Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga respectively) are upset over the loss of their third child at birth, and after a visit to an orphanage, decide on a whim to adopt 9 year old Russian orphan Esther. Esther immediately causes trouble and just “happens to be there” when bad things happen. Perhaps John and Kate should have just undergone fertility treatments and gone for 8?

Orphan will be available to own on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 27, 2009. The only extra material on the DVD release will be additional scenes and an alternate ending. The Blu-ray release will include those scenes, along with a Mama’s Little Devils: Bad Seeds, Evil Kids and Orphan featurette, and a digital copy of the film.

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Jenny is proud to be the First Lady of Inside Pulse Movies. She gives female and mommy perspective, and has two kids who help with rating family movies. (If they don't like 'em, what's the point?) She prefers horror movies to chick flicks, and she can easily hang with the guys as long as there are several frou-frou girlie drinks to be had.