“Orphan,” by contrast, comes in at a padded 2 hours 2 minutes, which is absurd for a dopey “boo” movie as in creaking sound plus abrupt visual cut equals “boo!” with a comically contrived premise. The age of the economic fright flick is apparently a thing of the past: the first “Dracula” clocked in at about 75 minutes, the original “Cat People” runs some 73 minutes, while “Night of the Living Dead” changed horror forever in just over 90 freaky minutes. Together they watch over Daniel (Jimmy Bennett) and a younger girl, Max (Aryana Engineer), in one of those sprawling houses that always looks spotless even if no one ever drags a mop across its polished floors, which makes you wonder who will swab up the inevitable pooling blood.Īnd the blood it does spill, though not nearly fast enough. He plays the father, John, an architect, and she plays the mother, Kate, who doesn’t do much of anything. Actors have to eat like the rest of us, if evidently not as much, but you still have to wonder how the independent film mainstays Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard ended up wading through “Orphan” and, for the most part, not laughing.
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