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El orfanato (2007)
Tragic, touching and scary as hell....
"The Orphanage" had me cowering in my seat for 80% of this movie! It's not a slasher film (there's only one scene that I can remember with any blood). It's horror comes more from what you don't see, or what you only see glimpses of. I found the story to be so heartbreaking at the end, which is rare to feel in a horror movie. This movie is like what horror movies used to be like; you had to work for it rather than having all the corpses pile up on your lap. The tension in this movie is thick. The mood even thicker. The acting was superb. The real jewel of this movie though is the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and consider it to be one of the best I've seen.
Split Second (1999)
Thick with intensity
I won't lie, I bought this movie b/c Clive Owen was in it, who can do no wrong in my eyes. During the onset of the movie his character has had a REALLY bad day and is at his boiling point. Road rage leads to the hit and run death of a cyclist. The movie really showcased Clive's smoldering style. Here is a man who is trying to continue on with life as if nothing ever happened, but his guilt is getting the best of him and ruining his ENTIRE life. He teeters between wanting to be an impeccable husband and lawyer, but he cannot shake what he has done and inevitably sabotages everything. He only finally tries to redeem himself when he crosses paths with the cyclist's widow. He plays an unsympathetic character (in my view) who surrounds himself with sharks (except for his wife). No true happy endings here, but it reflected real life. GREAT performances by all.