Reviewing the film - Orphan

The film orphan struck me as being very weird. you watch it all the way through thinking that its one thing but then the twist at the end is a real shock, in general a good film but extremely creepy.

so the story is basically a mother who is an alcoholic coping with the loss of a child due to her alchoholism, the husband is also a cheat which doesnt really add to the storyline but there it is.

her drinking also caused her to fail in saving one of her other child quick enough whilst she was drowning which led her child now to be mute and mostly deaf.

so she loses her child and wants to make up for it by adopting, they go to a orphanage and gets attracted by a russian (or something liek that) girl who seem alot more mature than most others. they adopt her, the daughter loves her new sister but the son dislikes her greatly.

as she settles in they notice that she wears ribbons continously round her neck and wrist, no one knows why at this point but when the adopted girl goes to school she gets bullied by her dress sense and her ribbons, and when one of the bullies try to remove them thats the first time you see this adopted child to be crazy as she screams uncontrollably. she also has a bible looking book on her most of the time.

so as time goes on, the girl settles in, things goes smoothly until one night when the mum and dad get it on she walks in, when the mother tried to explain to her what was going on, she calmy reply "you fucked". really unexpected at this point, child barely 10 using such language an all that.

at the start she also said that she didnt play piano, whereas the mothers very good, so she takes lessons with her. when one day the mother walks in a finds that the girl in fact is playing at proffessional level on her own, questions start to arise.

at this point the girl is also answering back alot and starting to act up to the mother but staying a good girl to the father.

so far the film is nicely shot and the suspense is good, everything is working nicely.

you then see the adopted girl mercilessly killing a bird off that the son shot with a pellet gun saying that "we need to put it out of its misery" still strange for a young child to do.

now the real shit comes in, the nun from the orphange comes along trying to inform the parents that somethings up with this child and she ends up killing her and hiding the body, sweet talking the poor sister to not tell anyone.

and then more crazy things happen, she threatens the son and end up cauging him to fall from his tree house injuring him serious and the mother starts to really hate this child and and wants to find out about her past more. this is the part when the mother finds out that she came from a mental asylum and that shes actually a midget! shes actually an adult posed as a child who tries to suduce the father of the family by driving away the mother. this is the time when you find out that all the paintings she been doing are all satanic under UV light and everything just goes really far, she kills the father off mother comes back, has a massive fight with this midget, saves her daughter, but her sons now in coma in hospital and her husbands dead..very grim ending and the midget sinks into a deep pond.

in general and well made film but seriously where did they get the storyline from?