Hi to everybody...before we went on holiday we bought three DVD's of Spanish films, which we both like very much...tonight we watched 'The Orphanage'.
Here's a synopsis of the film by Jason Buchanan. It doesn't give anything away about the source of tension in the film and the outcome, which I will say nothing about...

Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro produces director Juan Antonio Bayona's gothic frightener about a long-abandoned orphanage with a particularly troubling past. As a child, young orphan Laura spent her formative years being cared for by the staff of a large orphanage located by the Spanish seaside. Those were some of the happiest years of Laura's life, and now, 30 years later, the former charge returns to the dilapidated institution with her husband, Carlos, and their seven-year-old son, Simon, to reopen the orphanage as a facility for disabled children. However, something ominous haunts the darkened hallways of this silent, stately manor. When Simon's behavior begins to grow increasingly bizarre and malicious, Laura and Carlos start to suspect that the mysterious surroundings have awoken something ominous in the young boy's imagination. It's not long before Laura, too, is drawn into this disturbing web and the repressed memories of the past come flooding back in a terrifying torrent of tension and deeply disturbing revelations. With opening day drawing near and their situation growing increasingly grim by the hour, Carlos attempts to write off Simon's bizarre behavior as a desperate bid to get more attention from his distracted parents. Laura isn't so easily convinced of this theory, though, and soon embarks on a desperate quest to unearth the terrible secret that lurks in the old house, waiting for just the right moment to inflict devastating damage on both her and her family. - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

While Guillermo del Toro produced it, it doesn't quite match up to his abilities but, nonetheless, is a well made film, which doesn't rely on special effects at all, just suspense and tension....I can recommend it if you like a disturbing ghost story...it is as good as 'The Others' another ghost story, which I've seen and thought was very good as well.