Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Aspen Orson
There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.
stevie lobster
The Orphan Killer is without doubt one of the greatest achievements in contemporary horror cinema. Where most films follow a well used u-bend into the horror cesspit this film transcends that and lingers like a great big bushy fly over the excrement. This is the Chainsaw massacre, Halloween, Night of the Living Dead, Lassie Come Home of our generation. But it doesn't just play and pay homage to old films and old themes: this film makes themes! It's a game changer in every way... swapping the baseball for a football and placing a golf bunker where the pitching mound should be. The orphan Killer also serves up one of the sickest scenes to ever get past the censor, two O.A.Ps rimming each other in close up just as the axe falls. It's a scene reminiscent of were Sandy is made to pee herself in Last House on The Left or when Rocky knocks out Apollo Creed to win the world title. This is cinema at it's best and scariest, literally making young guys soil their pants in theaters, at home, in the street, at school, while making out, while beating off... it's one hell of a wild, fuzzed up, horror ride. If there's one film you see this year, whether you like horror or not, The Orphan Killer has to be it... an intense emotional roller-coaster of blood, guts, gore and granny sex... with one of the greatest pay-offs you'll EVER see! Ten outta ten... Go see the movie then buy the book then see the movie again! fantastic!
yaktheripper
A lot of hype on this one and that hype is a fabricated smoke-screen that hides a mediocre low budget slasher flick. The only "tour de force" is the methods that the film makers have undertaken to bring recognition to this not awful but not particularly original slasher film. It DOES NOT "defy classification" folks...it's a slasher flick. That's pretty standard stuff. The wheel hasn't been reinvented here. It also DOES NOT go any measure of length "beyond current trends in gore" nor does it "break open a new suffering genre of horror". That being said, it's not the steaming pile of rubbish many angry viewers have portrayed it as. There is A LOT of anger from users on here about this movie and it's justifiable. The film maker went out of their way to paint this as some sort of movie that sets the bar. As if this movie would be the new standard that we measure horror by. When a film maker puts that sort of unrealistic pressure on their movie then there's a lot to live up too. Unfortunately, this movie cannot stand up to a number of obstacles in it's path. Namely, acting, budget, special effects, score, and pacing are all very amateur. The pacing and cinematography are some of the worse I've seen in some time. The ending is certainly a theme recycled over and over and over... For a good laugh...go read some of the better user reviews that found this movie to be the next big thing. Then go read their comments on other movies. 90% of them only did one review and this was it. That's what you call guerrilla marketing folks....and that's where this movie succeeded very well at. Call it Blair Witch Part II...
Dio Bloodstorm
I'm not good in typing reviews but from what i can tell you from this movie is that every humble horror movie has a different start. So exactly what this movie is the a simple start to finish, has a history behind the agenda just like any old school horror brutal slasher flick & definitely not as stupid as anyone thinks... Personally i'm getting bored with to many movies with so called good reviews & high graded with A list actors but when you actually see it tells otherwise too common these days in which actually some are getting silly & full of nonsense these days. The whole point is... give it a shot cos it kind of reminds each of us the good old days of old school slasher films in which simple is not bad & not too complicated plus entertaining if you are a true horror fan.
panhead-949-639796
I found the story line very interesting. In this day of making horror movies it is hard to find a plot that hasn't been used time and time again but The Orphan Killer found their own story line and they show you how the killer came to be the person he is. For a movie that did not come from a big budget film company i thought the producers did a good job making the movie.The plot is not way out there with phantom killers that can't be stopped or monsters from our closets its a story line that could really happen and to me that makes the characters more interesting to watch.I'm sure if this film can get out to the public more and with some major film company's backing this could turn into a new horror franchise.
