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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place.
MPAA rating: R ; for some disturbing content. ; Special features not rated.
PictureHouse and Guillermo del Toro present a J.A. Bayona film. Rodar y Rodar ; Telecinco Cinema ; Asturias ; Wild Bunch ; PictureHouse ; Warner Bros. Pictures ; produced by Álvaro Augustín, Joaquín Padro, Mar Targarona, Guillermo del Toro ; screenplay by Sergio G. Sánchez ; directed by J.A. Bayona.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features: When Laura grew up: constructing The orphanage" featurette; "Tomas' secret room" featurette; "Horror in the unknown: makeup effects" featurette; still galleries; marketing campaign."
Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Andrés Gertrúdix, Edgar Vivar. Geraldine Chaplin, Carmen Lopez.
Blu-ray disc; high-definition disc; compatible only with Blu-ray players region A [the Americas] ; It will not play on standard dvd players. Widescreen [2.35:1]. Feature: 1080p high definition ; 7.1 DTS-HD Master audio ; Bonus features: 480i standard definition; 5.1 DTS-HD; DTS stereo].
Spanish dialogue [7.1 DTS-HD Master audio], English, English SDH, or Spanish subtitles; Special features: English/Spanish [5.1 DTS-HD; DTS stereo].
Director of photography, Óscar Faura ; editor, Geli Albaladejo ; music, Fernando Veláquez ; costume designer, Maria Reyes ; production designer, Josep Rosell.
Barcelona Film Awards, 2007: Barcelona Film Award - Best Actress (Belén Rueda) ; Best Art Direction (Josep Rosell) ; Best Cinematography (Óscar Faura) ; Best Film ; Best Film Editing (Elena Ruiz) ; Best New Director (Juan Antonio Bayona) ; Best Sound (Xavier Mas, Marc Orts, Oriol Tarragó)
Goya Awards, 2008: Goya - Best Make-Up and Hairstyles (Lola López, Itziar Arrieta) ; Best New Director (Juan Antonio Bayona) ; Best Production Design (Josep Rosell) ; Best Production Supervision (Sandra Hermida) ; Best Screenplay - Original (Sergio G. Sánchez) ; Best Sound (Xavier Mas, Marc Orts, Oriol Tarragó) ; Best Special Effects (David Martí, Montse Ribé, Pau Costa, Enric Masip, Lluís Castells, Jordi San Augstín)