![]() No matter how long you’ve been grieving, you can’t be blind to common sense. While the Albrights are collectively happy to see their “daughter,” she has a full-on accent and doesn’t remember simple memories as she should. Writers David Coggeshall, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, and Alex Mace are incredibly aware of this premise’s campiness. The sudden re-appearance of their daughter gives the family a sudden spark. Their son Gunnar (Matthew Finlan) is taking everything into stride - fencing and partying with friends. Allen (Rossif Sutherland) has lost his muster to be an artist while his wife Tricia (Julia Stiles) is trying to keep the family somewhat together. However, with the loss of their daughter, things have changed. The Albrights seem to have a beautiful house, lots of money, and many charitable events to entertain. From there, Leena hatches a bloody plot to impersonate a missing girl named Esther to infiltrate an affluent, wealthy American family. A long-time doctor inside the Saarne Institute informs a new teacher of Leena’s troubled history and penchant for using her condition to her advantage. At the beginning of First Kill, the setting serves as a primer for those unfamiliar with Leena’s character or who have forgotten the first film. The age difference is noticeable at points however, the film tries cleverly to account for the obvious. Director William Brent Bell and cinematographer Karim Hussain use plenty of camera techniques to film Fuhrman from a lower point of view or behind with two body doubles. Given Hollywood’s current infatuation with prequels, re-quels, and all the above, Orphan: First Kill‘s premise had its work cut out for it.įor one, lead actress Isabelle Fuhrman is much older now, so the suspension of disbelief factor will be harder to pull off. As horrifying a prospect, it’s a twist on the “bad kid” motifs shown in 1993’s The Good Son and makes for some crazy situations. With Ester, however, there was more than meets the eye - a hormonal disorder has a 33-year-old Estonian woman named Leena Klammer encased in a child’s body. At first, we thought we were witnessing all the fixings of a mischievous, evil child looking to tear her new family apart to varying degrees. ![]() It was 13 years ago when a loving, unsuspecting family adopted a nine-year-old girl named Ester in 2009’s Orphan.
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