Orphan: First Kill is the type of horror movie prequel that wants to embrace its roots but also forge its own path. It’s a respectable goal, although incredibly difficult to execute.

You know the story (or maybe you don’t): A grown woman who looks like a child due to “proportional dwarfism” scams her way into being adopted by a loving family, only to terrorize them and ...

Orphan: First Kill spoilers follow. Prequel movies always face a battle to prove they should have been made, beyond being a cash-in on a recognisable name. It's arguably even more challenging when ...

Just how many people has “First Kill” star Bruce Willis killed over the course of his career? According to a site called MovieBodyCounts.com (whose statistics look to be about as accurate as a ...

Orphan: First Kill is a stand-alone movie. None of the characters from 2009's Orphan, such as her adoptive parents Kate (played by Vera Farmiga) and John Coleman (Peter Sarsgaard), appear in the film.

‘Orphan: First Kill’ The hit 2009 horror film “Orphan” was an effective “creepy little kid” thriller with two strong twists. First: The “kid” turned out not to be a kid at all, but ...

Film Review: ‘First Kill’ Bruce Willis goes bad in a movie that could hardly be mistaken for good, playing a corrupt police chief mixed up in a bank robbery. By Peter Debruge.

Originally in the first movie, I lived, and the focus group said, “Kill the bitch.” We really created a monster in “Orphan.” So for this one, it was fun to create a hero in a sense, an ...

‘First Kill’: Film Review. Hayden Christensen and Bruce Willis star in 'First Kill,' Steven C. Miller's thriller about a father and young son who encounter bank robbers while on a hunting trip.

The film takes place in 2007, before the events of “Orphan.” If you’ve seen the original film, the first half of “First Kill” is numbing in its predictability.