Orphan First Kill
Directed by William Brent Bell
Written by David Coggeshall
Starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Rossif Sutherland, Julia Stiles, Hiro Kanagawa
Release Date August 19th, 2022
Considering that director William Brent Bell doesn’t have the greatest resume and the first Orphan movie from 2009 wasn’t very good, I wasn’t particularly interested in another Orphan movie. What a fun surprise it was then to find out that Orphan First Kill is a weird ballsy B-movie that embraces camp in the best possible way. Isabelle Fuhrman, on a roll after her exceptional performance in the rowing thriller The Novice, delivers a stunner of a performance against all odds in a prequel to a movie she made as a child.
Orphan First Kill takes us back to Russia where a new psychiatrist has taken a job at a remote psychiatric facility for the criminally insane. As the woman is being given a tour of the facility we learn that the most dangerous patient in the prison has gone missing. That patient is Leena Klammer and the new young doctor is about to come face to face with her unexpected evil. Leena, for those who don’t know, is 30 years old but looks like an 11 year old innocent child. After nearly killing the newest doctor at the facility, Esther is subdued and taken back to her room.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
