Orphan

Trailer of the film

 

 

The plot: A pair (Kate and John) are waiting for their third child, but he dies when he is yet intro the body of Kate. Kate starts to have nightmares and problems, and the pair decide to adopt a child. When they go to the orphanage they meet a little, sweet and innocent girl, Esther. The pair adopt him, and the problems begin not far from here. Of course, Kate and John are the last ones to realize that Esther is not what she seems.
Why I don't like it: I don't like it. First, because I don't like the horror films, and then because The Orphan is a kind of horror movie that isn't frightening to me. Esther has a problem, but she is controllable, a person with a singular problem, but nothing supernatural, what really terrify me.

The Gothic Novel

• Who invented the G.N.?
• It was invented by Horace Walpole.

• What was the first G.N.?
•   The Castle of Otranto was the first, published in 1764.

• When was it first published?
• In 1764.

• Wich basic elements of horror didn't you include on your list?
• Setting in a castle.
• An ancient prophecy.
• Omens, portents, visions.
• High, even overwrought emotion.
• Women in distress.
• Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male.
• Laughters.
• Characters trapped in a room.
• Ruins of buildings.
• Lights in abandoned rooms.
• Bays of wolves.
• Choler.
•  Uncertainty of reciprocation love.
• Rival lovers or multiple suitors.



Dictionary

• Unreturned love.