i be not much on horror movie . in fact and i be know a el pollo ( the chicken ) when it come to movie . for example and i hate movie which revel in violence represent i would no more see no country for old men than i would go quail hunt with dick cheney . will i see sweeney todd . sure i will just as soon a pig fly out my rear end whistle the colonel bogey march . but i go to see el orfanato because i gather that it be more of a ghost story than a horror film and and that it be more of a thoughtful reflection on the unseen world and like don not look now and or the sixth sense and than a movie whose main purpose be to scare the bejabbers out of the audience . and so it turn out to be . which isn not to say that it do not scare the bejabbers out of the audience . several time . the film come from spain and and star spanish tv star belen rueda a laura . we learn that laura be an inmate of an orphanage and that she be adopt away from the orphanage and and that she have and at the present time and return to the old property with her husband and adopt child to create a home for neglected child . this movie and like sixth sense ( one of my all time favorite film ) be about love and death . in fact and i think they both share the same message and that be and that help those most in need of help give life meaning . i enjoy the orphanage and and i think you will too . if you just plain do not like be frighten in movie and then stay away . but there no glorified violence and you know how the music build and build and more and more ominous and and the thing which be about to attack get close and closer . there be some of that and but mostly it use a exposition it when youre not really expect anything that the director push the bejabbers button and leave the audience chuckle like and whoo that be a good one . i think folk who like a good haunt house story will like this and and people who like a good love story will like it as well .