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Orphan: First Kill is actually a fantastic slasher prequel
Nothing about Orphan: First Kill should work. Paramount Plus’ new horror movie is a prequel to the 2009 cult-hit horror movie Orphan, but from a different director and writer. The primary holdover from the first movie is Isabelle Fuhrman (The Hunger Games), who plays the homicidal 9-year-old orphan, Esther, in both movies — in spite of the 13-year gap between prequel and original. But instead of the disaster it should be, Orphan: First Kill is a tremendously clever slasher that has fun with, and lives up to, its absurd premise.
