The Orphanage (El Orfanato)

Synopsis from wikipedia:

Laura, with her physician husband Carlos, returns to an orphanage where she had lived as a child with plans of reopening it as a home for sick and disabled children. They adopted a son named Simón who is HIV-positive, though he is unaware of either his adoption or his illness.

Upon moving into the cavernous and hauntingly beautiful home, Simón becomes acquainted with six imaginary friends. Because Simón has always had imaginary friends, both Laura and Carlos play along with his stories. Laura takes Simón to visit a cave near the beach, and he claims to see an imaginary friend. After returning home, he draws a picture of him. He is named Tomás, and he wears a sack mask.

A mysterious social worker appears one day, talking obliquely of some new treatment for Simón. After inviting her in for tea, Laura becomes suspicious and sends her away. That night, after investigating some rattling noises she hears outside, Laura finds the mysterious social worker skulking around the grounds. Though Laura screams for Carlos' help, the woman escapes before anything else occurs. After reporting the incident, it is discovered that there is no social worker registered with the name Benigna, which the woman gave.

One day, Simón tells Laura about a game that Tomás has created for him, a type of scavenger hunt. The game leads them to the locked drawer where Simón's medical records are hidden. Simón reveals to Laura that he knows that she is not his real mother and that he is going to die. When she asks him how he knows that, he responds that his friends told him.

Soon after, Laura hosts a party for the disabled children to welcome them to their new home. Simón begs to show Laura Tomás' house, but after an argument, Laura leaves Simón alone upstairs. When Laura returns to check on him, she cannot find him. She checks in the bathroom at the end of the hall, only to be confronted by a boy in a sack mask who she saw earlier at the party. After she tries to remove the boy's mask, he violently locks her in the bathroom and disappears. No one else at the party remembered seeing the boy because all the children were wearing masks. Simón cannot be found; he has simply disappeared without a trace.

Months later, Laura and her husband go for a drive. It is evident that both are still haunted by the loss of their son. Coincidentally, Laura sees Benigna crossing the street with a stroller, and she makes Carlos stop the car. However, in the tension of the moment, a speeding ambulance mauls Benigna. Though Carlos attempts mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he says that the woman is dead. Laura reaches for the woman's whistle necklace, and in her dying breath the woman snatches Laura's hand away.

After searching the woman's home, the police discover that Benigna worked at the orphanage long ago. She had a deformed son named Tomás who drowned in the oceanfront cave near the orphanage. Though his face was hidden from the other orphans, they led him to a cave and took off his mask. They wanted to see if he would dare to come out without his mask; ashamed, he refused and drowned overnight once the tide rose.

The desperate Laura then agrees to have a medium explore the orphanage for supernatural clues to her son's disappearance. The medium sees five child ghosts, screaming in pain and dying of poison. Soon after, Laura, following clues she believes were left by Tomás, finds five sacks full of ashes and human bones in the very shed that she caught Benigna snooping in. Laura surmises that the woman had murdered the five children, after their trick had killed Tomás.

Carlos does not believe in the supernatural; he thinks his wife has gone crazy and begs her to leave the orphanage, but she refuses. She insists that she must stay and explore every nook and cranny of the creepy house until it disgorges its secrets. Laura insists that there are too many memories in the house and she needs two days alone to say good-bye.

Carlos goes, leaving Laura alone in the house. After recreating her time in the house as a young girl, she sees the ghosts of the dead friends from her childhood, and they lead her to a hidden door in a closet. Behind the door are stairs leading to a dark basement, and at the bottom she finds Simón alive. However, when she wills the ghosts to go away, it turns out Simón was dead as well, having fallen down a broken banister on the stairwell the day he disappeared. In her frantic search for Simón, she'd unintentionally prevented his escape from the basement. She carries his body up and kills herself by overdosing on her medication.

Laura wakes up, and the ghosts of the five murdered children plus Tomás and Simón, appear before her. Simón asks her to stay and take care of him and his friends forever, and she happily agrees.

Later, Carlos is seen in front of the house where a memorial to Laura, Simón, and the other children of the orphanage had been built. After going inside one last time to say farewell, he spies a good-luck necklace he had given Laura on the floorboards inside the children's bedroom. He hears a noise and looks up as the doors slowly open, and smiles.

Actually, I wanted to give 7.5/10 for this movie,

but suddenly, seeing the last 15 minutes scene... I gave up and rose the score to 8.3/10 :)

It made me cry. Quite alot.

So now, let me begin my synopsis (although you can all read from wiki :P)

Laura and her husband Carlos stay at an orphanage, in which Laura stayed during her childhood. They bring Simon, their adopted son. Soon, Simon meets his 'invincible' friends, people said it's imaginary friends, wateva...

After having his imaginary friends, Simon refuses to meet other children. In a disabled-children party that Laura held, Simon asks Laura to meet one of his friend's house, Tomas. Laura gets angry and asks Simon to join the party, still Simon refuses. She slaps Simon and leaves him alone in his room.

When Laura returns, Simon disappears. She tries to find him anywhere but cannot. Instead, she meets this Tomas guy who locks her in the bathroom.

Months passed. Finally Laura and Carlos find themselves the story of the house, polices, and psychoanalyst (or what eh? i forgot...). The psychoanalyst said she sees five children there, but cannot find Simon. On the other hand, Carlos thinks Laura has gone insane, and he urges to leave the house. Laura stays behind for another two days to say goodbye.

After Carlos has gone, Laura recreates the orphanage as it was during her childhood. And there's also a bedroom with 6 beds (i think). When she plays this "Un, dos, tres, toca la pared", Simon's imaginary friends appear and Laura finds Simon in the basement.

She finds Simon dead. She stucks the basement's door closed with stuffs when she looked for him months before.

She returns to the bedroom and brings Simon with her. Here, Simon's imaginary friends, which are Laura's childhood mates in this orphanage, appears. Simon asks her to stay and tell bedtime stories... <<< here =")

At the last scene, Carlos returns to the house and gives flowers to Laura's grave. At that moment I've just realized that Laura died the days before =((( In the bedroom, he finds the goodluck necklace he gave Laura months ago. The door opens (and I wonder what is that) and he smiled.

The end.

Rating: 8.3/10 for horror movie

European horror is nice, unlike Hollywood's one. Haha. Just like last time I watched "El Habitacion de Nino" :)