Orphan: First Kill(2022)

Plot Summary

• In January 2007, Estonian psychiatric patient Leena Klammer, a 31-year-old woman with a rare hormonal disorder called hypopituitarism that gives her the appearance of a 9-year-old child, orchestrates an escape from the Saarne Institute by seducing and killing a guard and hiding in the car of an art therapist named Anna. After breaking into Anna's house and killing her, Leena looks up missing American girls and finds that she bears a striking resemblance to Esther Albright, a girl from a rich family went missing in 2003. Later, posing as a lost girl, Leena is approached by a Russian police officer and introduces herself as "Esther", claiming that her parents are in the United States.In Darien, Connecticut, wealthy artist Allen Albright and his wife Tricia, who has since come to terms with the disappearance of their daughter, are informed by Detective Donnan that "Esther" has been found. Tricia travels to the U.S. embassy in Moscow where she is "reunited" with Esther. Tricia brings Esther home and immediately starts to have doubts when she notices that Esther has forgotten about the death of her grandmother or that her painting skills have increased enormously compared to before she disappeared. Leena falls in love with Allen after they both start bonding over their painting skills, and tries to separate him from Tricia.While Tricia and Allen attend a charity gala hosted by Tricia, Donnan arrives at the house and steals a vinyl record from Esther's room which has Leena's fingerprints on it. He takes it back to his house, unaware that Leena has followed him, and analyzes the fingerprints to find it is not a match. Leena attacks Donnan and stabs him with a knife repeatedly, before Tricia arrives, having followed Leena. Instead of stopping Leena, Tricia opens fire on Donnan with a gun and kills him. Tricia reveals that she knows Leena is not Esther, who died four years earlier during an altercation with her older brother Gunnar, which Tricia covered up without Allen's knowledge. Tricia explains that she is only welcoming Leena to make Allen happy again, as he was devastated by Esther's disappearance. Leena reveals her true identity to Tricia, and the two then dispose of Donnan's body in a cellar hatch where the real Esther is buried and frame his disappearance as a vacation trip by forging an email to the police station.Knowing that it would be too suspicious if "Esther" were to disappear again, Tricia and Gunnar agree to continue Leena's act for Allen's sake, and Leena and Tricia remain on guard with each other. Eventually, not trusting Leena, Tricia attempts to poison her during dinner, but Leena refuses to eat the food and excuses herself. Leena feeds the food to the rat that lives in her room and later finds the rodent dead from ingesting the poisoned meal. Leena retaliates by making a green smoothie mixed with the rodent's carcass for Tricia. Allen reveals he is going into the city to meet about a potential art gallery. At the train station, Leena attempts to kill Tricia and Gunnar by pushing them in front of a train, but her attempt is accidentally interrupted by a passing commuter. With Allen away, Leena tries fleeing by stealing Tricia's car, but she is soon found by a police officer.That night, Leena is brought back to the Albright house and Tricia and Gunnar finally decide to kill Leena, deciding that she is too dangerous to be kept in their household. Tricia tries to stage a suicide, but Leena fights back and flees before Gunnar throws her down the stairs. Distracted by a phone call from Allen, who is returning home, Tricia and Gunnar search for Leena when she disappears. Gunnar eventually finds Leena in the art room but Leena shoots Gunnar with a crossbow and then stabs him to death with his fencing sword. An enraged Tricia and Leena fight in the kitchen, inadvertently setting the house alight in the process, and the pair flee to the roof as Allen returns home.Tricia and Leena both slip and end up clinging to the roof, begging Allen to save them, with Leena claiming Tricia attacked her, and Tricia trying to reveal the truth about Leena. Unable to save both of them, Allen chooses to help "Esther", causing Tricia to lose her grip and fall to her death. Allen then checks Leena's face, which causes her fake teeth to fall out. Realizing she is not Esther, Leena tries to defend herself by saying she did it for them and also confesses her love for him, only for Allen to call her a monster. Enraged, Leena pushes Allen off the roof to his death. Leena then again dresses herself as Esther and leaves the burning house after cleaning off the blood on her face.Later, "Esther" is moved to an orphanage where she waits for a new family to adopt her. (thanks to Wikipedia)

Storyline

• Esther's terrifying saga continues in this thrilling prequel to the original and shocking horror hit, Orphan. After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. Yet, an unexpected twist arises that pits her against a mother who will protect her family from the murderous "child" at any cost. Estonia, 2007. Before worming her way into the unsuspecting, doomed family of Kate and John in Orphan (2009) , 31-year-old Leena, the artful manipulator trapped in the body of a 9-year-old girl, was an inmate of the Saarne Institute. As murderous Leena masterminds her brutal escape from the mental hospital, she makes her way to the United States and sinks her teeth into the wealthy American family of Tricia and Allen Albright. But her hands are already stained in blood, and violence invites tragedy. Now, the devious woman gives her all to fit in with the Albrights; however, will the charming little psychopath get the love and support she thinks she deserves? — Nick Riganas The only thing more terrifying than how it ended, was where it all began. In Estonia 2007, before the events of the first film, Leena Klammer escapes from the Saarne Institute and travels to America by impersonating Esther, the missing daughter of a wealthy family. When they first bring her home, her suspicious mother Tricia, grows very anxious of her, she starts to show a dark side that her mother has never seen in her daughter before. How far will a mother go to protect her family from the nightmare that she first brought into her home? — alonzovillafra