“Orphan,” starring Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard as doting parents who lost a child and unwittingly adopts a sinister one, occasionally frustrates with its horror clichés and structure. But director Jaume Collet-Serra understands them and somewhat circumvents the predictable sequences by misleading with the score and visuals, aptly eliciting nervous giggles in the process. “Orphan” also perplexes favorably when building up horrific situations. The titular character is Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), whose innocent, adorable façade belies her calculating nature. There’s a big twist, a revelation that works and makes sense of hints dropped throughout the story. It’s sick and twisted, ultimately rewarding those viewers who endured the charade and grueling scenes of cuckoo kid mayhem.
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