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in the movie it's "un"


* ArcWords: "''Uno, dos, tres, toca la pared.''" [[note]]"''One, two, three, knocking on the wall.''"[[/note]]

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* ArcWords: "''Uno, "''Un, dos, tres, toca la pared.''" [[note]]"''One, two, three, knocking on the wall.''"[[/note]]
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Laura and her husband Carlos decide to return to the orphanage where she grew up before she was adopted. Laura has herself adopted a son, Simón, who is HIV-positive. There is, however, a secret to the orphanage and what happened thereafter Laura left - including Tomás, a mysterious boy who always wears a sack mask.

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Laura and her husband Carlos decide to return to the orphanage where she grew up before she was adopted. Laura has herself adopted a son, Simón, who is HIV-positive. There is, however, a secret to the orphanage and what happened thereafter there after Laura left - including Tomás, a mysterious boy who always wears a sack mask.



* ArcWords: "''Un, dos, tres, toca la pared.''" [[note]]"''One, two, three, knocking on the wall.''"[[/note]]

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* ArcWords: "''Un, "''Uno, dos, tres, toca la pared.''" [[note]]"''One, two, three, knocking on the wall.''"[[/note]]



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Laura finds Simón...dead, and it's her fault. She commits suicide, but is [[TogetherInDeath reunited in death]] with Simón and the other orphan because that was Simón's wish that he had granted after winning the scavenger hunt game. The movie ends with Carlos learning that his wife and adopted son are now happily haunting the orphanage, which is something he smiles about.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Laura finds Simón...dead, and it's her fault. She commits suicide, but is [[TogetherInDeath reunited in death]] with Simón and the other orphan orphans because that was Simón's wish that he had granted after winning the scavenger hunt game. The movie ends with Carlos learning that his wife and adopted son are now happily haunting the orphanage, which is something he smiles about.]]

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misuse. the unmasking and the death were separated by hours. moving content to Deadly Prank


* DeadlyPrank: [[spoiler:Tomás died in a visit to the seaside caves when the rest of the orphaned kids stole his mask in a poorly thought-out attempt to get him to reveal his face to them, only for Tomas to hide himself in the cave until the tide came in, drowning him. Worse still the five kids who were blamed for the incident were murdered by Benigna.]]
* DeathlyUnmasking:
** Laura's investigation reveals that a disfigured child was actually living in a hidden room under the orphanage. Normally kept out of sight by his overprotective mother, little Tomas was allowed outside on the condition that he wore a sack mask; unfortunately, [[spoiler: while on an outing to a beachside cave with the orphans, one of them stole his mask in a poorly thought-out attempt to make him show his face to them all. Without his mask, Tomas refused to leave his hiding place in the cave - only to end up getting drowned when the tide came in.]]
** The film concludes with the ghosts leading Laura to the hidden room beneath the house, where she finds a masked body lying on the floor by the staircase; [[spoiler: thanks to the distinctive sack mask, the corpse appears identical to Tomas... but when unmasked, she discovers that it's actually Simon, her missing son. Having dressed up in Tomas' old mask for his birthday, he hid in the concealed basement... but found himself trapped down there after Laura unwittingly blocked the secret door with construction scaffolds during her first big search for him, and in his panicked attempts to escape, Simon broke through a banister on the staircase and fell to his death.]]

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* DeadlyPrank: [[spoiler:Tomás died in a visit to the seaside caves when the rest of the orphaned kids stole his mask in a poorly thought-out attempt to get him to reveal his face to them, only for Tomas to hide himself in the cave until the tide came in, drowning him. Worse still the five kids who were blamed for the incident were murdered by Benigna.]]
* DeathlyUnmasking:
** Laura's investigation reveals that a disfigured child was actually living in a hidden room under the orphanage. Normally
[[spoiler:Normally kept out of sight by his overprotective mother, little Tomas was allowed outside on the condition that he wore a sack mask; unfortunately, [[spoiler: while on an outing to a beachside cave with the orphans, one of them stole his mask in a poorly thought-out attempt to make him show his face to them all. Without his mask, Tomas refused to leave his hiding place in the cave - only to end up getting drowned when the tide came in. Worse still the five kids who were blamed for the incident were murdered by Benigna.]]
** * DeathlyUnmasking: The film concludes with the ghosts leading Laura to the hidden room beneath the house, where she finds a masked body lying on the floor by the staircase; [[spoiler: thanks to the distinctive sack mask, the corpse appears identical to Tomas... but when unmasked, she discovers that it's actually Simon, her missing son. Having dressed up in Tomas' old mask for his birthday, he hid in the concealed basement... but found himself trapped down there after Laura unwittingly blocked the secret door with construction scaffolds during her first big search for him, and in his panicked attempts to escape, Simon broke through a banister on the staircase and fell to his death.]]

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* MaskingTheDeformity: The [[UndeadChild ghost of Tomas]] wears one, which he also apparently wore in life to cover up a deformed face.



* SackheadSlasher: The [[UndeadChild ghost of Tomas]] wears one, which he also apparently wore in life to cover up a deformed face.
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''The Orphanage'' (''El Orfanato'') is a Spanish-language horror film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Creator/GuillermoDelToro of ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' and ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' fame.

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''The Orphanage'' (''El Orfanato'') is a 2007 Spanish-language horror film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Creator/GuillermoDelToro of ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' and ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' fame.

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