The Orphan: First Kill ending finds Esther fighting for survival against the twisted family. She outsmarts Gunnar, killing him first. The large family home goes up in flames, ...

But then Orphan: First Kill, the new prequel to the 2009 cult-classic horror film, landed in theaters and Paramount+ Friday. I knew that it was finally time to delve into what Esther (Isabelle ...

Orphan: First Kill zeroes in on the doomed adoptive family briefly mentioned in the first act of Orphan and the events leading up to their fiery demise. ("The family that brought her to America ...

The Warner Bros. horror offering was an end-of-decade, word-of-mouth sleeper in spite of, and because of, its risible-on-paper plot — a nine-year-old Russian girl terrorizing her adoptive family ...

For certain millennials, “Orphan” holds a kind of camp cachet. We watched it with our friends and giggled perversely as Leena, playing an 9-year-old girl, attempted to seduce her adopted father.

As the interview itself referenced, the situation bore a close resemblance to the plot of “Orphan,” the 2009 Jaume Collet-Serra thriller that featured an 11-year old Fuhrman as Esther, a 9 ...

Orphan: First Kill Rated R. Kills, none of them Leena’s first. Running time: 1 hour 39 minutes. In theaters and on Paramount+. Orphan: First Kill. Find Tickets.