Based on the trailer, the Orphan prequel First Kill should've been called Dear Orphan Hansen
2009's
Orphan
is predicated on a simple twist—that maybe this murderous child isn’t who she says she is.
Alas, the quiet Estonian child, played by a 12-year-old Isabelle Fuhrman,
was, in fact, a grown-ass woman. Parents everywhere fear the day a doctor tells
them their child is a 30-something weirdo. For Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard,
the well-meaning parents from
Orphan
, that day couldn’t have gone worse—what with all the murders.
Now that you know the twist, the producers of the prequel
Orphan:
First Kill
assume you won’t mind if the now 25-year-old Fuhrman just goes around
killing people while playing an even younger version of the character.
But, in what can only be described as
Clifford
-ication of Esther,