Review: Into an eerie ‘Orphanage’

It’s an artsy haunted house thriller with subtitles about a missing little boy who has AIDS called “The Orphanage.” Ugh. Nothing like starting the new movie year off on a cheery note!

But as one of those character-driven and sincerely emotional versions of a genre film, which the Europeans often do better than us, this visit to a home of parentless Spanish ghost children isn’t quite as grueling as you’d expect.