The orphanage [blu-ray dvd] = El Orfanato / PictureHouse and Guillermo del Toro present a J.A. Bayona film. Rodar y Rodar; Telecinco Cinema ; Asturias ; Wild Bunch ; PictureHouse ; Warner Bros. Pictures ; produced by by Álvaro Augustín, Joaquín Padro, Mar Targarona, Guillermo del Toro ; screenplay by Sergio G. Sánchez ; directed by J.A. Bayona.
Title from container. Release date: Apr. 22, 2008. Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Andrés Gertrúdix, Edgar Vivar.Geraldine Chaplin, Carmen Lopez. Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Special features: When Laura grew up: constructing The orphanage" featurette; "Tomas' secret room" featurette; "Horror in the unknown: makeup effects" featurette; still galleries; marketing campaign.
Summary:
Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place.
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