Foreign Films

I love to watch foreign films- especially foreign horror films. If they have subtitles or if they are dubbed in English that's fine with me. Kari and I watched a film called The Orphanage by Guillermo Del Toro. He also directed Pans Labyrinth. When we put the film on we did not know it was in Spanish and had subtitles. That was an extra bonus. Now here is the question I would like to put to you: When you are watching a film with subtitles do you still find yourself telling people to be quite, that you can't hear what is going on? This totally happened to us. Even though we could see what was being said and that even if we could hear what they were saying we wouldn't be able to understand what they were saying because the movie was in SPANISH! Kari and I discussed this and decided that even though the film has subtitles you still need to be able to hear the film. You need to be able to hear the music which can be a cue that something is about to happen and all the scary noises that naturally occur in a horror film.

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This is a great movie. It is not all blood and guts like a lot of horror films. Actually, I think the only blood in the movie is when Laura (the mother) accidentally smashes her finger in a door.