There’s an inherent campiness to the way Fuhrman and Stiles deliver their lines that you can’t help but become hypnotized by how they interact with one another.
I was flummoxed with how unhinged it became - jaw-on-the-floor, eyes wide opened in pure disbelief - and yet I didn’t want it to end.
As if the song couldn’t be more on the nose, the sequence directly signals to the audience that the film is about to become a wild ride, and they better buckle up for the rest because its insanity will crank up to eleven. There’s a specific scene marking its tonal shift that involves Michael Sembello’s ‘Maniac’ from Flashdance.
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And then the movie morphs from your typical slasher picture to something so crazy that it feels criminal that it only received a limited theatrical release and while also being relegated to Paramount+ and video on demand. Stiles becomes more committed than ever, while Fuhrman finally unleashes the same amount of effective creepiness she brought to her role in the first film (and they made her creepier through practical effects because she isn’t a kid anymore). But then something occurs during the movie’s second act and completely changes the direction of the movie, which does wonders for its performances and overall atmosphere. The kills aren’t particularly inspired, and the lead performances range from terribly bored (Stiles & Sutherland) to robotic and stiff (Fuhrman). Karim Hussain’s cinematography is fairly bland throughout most of the movie, with some odd motion smoothing overpowering the movie’s frames from beginning to end. The first act of Orphan: First Kill is as bog-standard as you can possibly get. In this prequel, we get to see how she adopted the name Esther and terrorized her first family, played by Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland and Matthew Finlan. If you’re watching the film, it’s likely that you’ve seen Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan, where it was revealed that Esther/Leena (Fuhrman) isn’t a little girl but a grown woman suffering from a rare genetic disorder. And yet there’s something so utterly fascinating about the movie that you can’t possibly look away, even when it gets very bad near the end. Bringing back Isabelle Fuhrman to play Esther, who is now 25 years old and using practical trickery to make her a kid again, felt like the second red flag. Having William Brent Bell attached to the project, who has directed some of the worst horror films of the past decade, was supposed to be the first red flag. Orphan: First Kill shouldn’t have worked.
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