It captures pure terror. It's horrific. That's horror plus terrific. It's almost impossible for a film like this to be lumped into the same category as...

Belén Rueda, the film's star, is that rare woman in her 40s who is allowed to look naturally beautiful, with the lines of a woman in her 40s (even though she's playing a character who is 37).

This is the worst sort of horror film, one that cloaks its shameless pulls at the heartstrings in overemphatic sound design, hyped-up visuals, and a tear-streaked lead performance by Belen Rueda.

A spectacular entry into the horror thriller genre, The Orphanage twists and turns and gives the audience some truly scary and sorrowful moments.

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The historical details and enthralling magic of Guillermo del Toro's own productions are missing, and it's more reliant on boo scares than its somber story can support. Yet an intriguing subtext, fierce lead performance and a perfect ending make it work.

At once mother and child, victim and antagonist, space and inhabitant, Laura is remarkable, but also traumatized and unnerving.

Poltergeist meets The Others in a satisfying story about what you believe... You'll never watch children playing "Red Light, Green Light" the same way again.

The kind of movie that reminds horror fans why they became hooked on the genre in the first place.

In Spanish with subtitles, this magical, mystical tale seems anointed somehow with Del Toro's thick atmospheric elixir that served Pan's Labyrinth, Del Toro's unsettling Oscar-winner of last year.