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Nightmarish psycho-child thriller

Esther is a godsend. So it seems to her new parents, John Coleman (Peter Sarsgaard) and his wife, Kate (Vera Farmiga), at the start of Jaume Collet-Serra's immaculately plotted and photographed chiller, Orphan, one of the best entries in the cute-as-a-button-psycho-demon-child-from-hell subgenre.

Isabelle Fuhrman and Vera Farmiga, left, in "Orphan." (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Rafy)
Isabelle Fuhrman and Vera Farmiga, left, in "Orphan." (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Rafy)Read more
    by Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer | Columnist
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