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PURCHASE THE DVD: House of Voices (2004)

Weird and scary 2004 horror film, a ghost story really, features a (apparently really) pregnant Virginie Ledoyen as a young woman brought in to clean up an orphanage that is being closed down. The children are all moved out leaving only the young cleaning woman, the very old housekeeper, and one orphan, mentally disturbed, who has not yet been relocated.

The young woman is trying to hide her pregnancy from the others by wrapping her middle with cloth, but as the days go by, she starts becoming ill from the pregnancy. Or is something else causing it?

As things progress, she begins to hear footsteps and voices of children, but the other two see nothing. Soon after, she begins to see the children themselves running and playing. Or does she really see anything?

This is a strange but well-done effort, and although not everyone will like it, I did, quite a lot. I was especially impressed by Virginie Ledoyen's performance, which was very good, and by the shocking ending.