Adapting Spanish Ghost Story Conventions: The Orphanage Essay.

Introduction to The Orphanage and its socio-cultural approachQuestion:How does The Orphanage adapt Hollywood horror genre conventions to suit the fairy tale quality of the Spanish ghost story and to engage with Spain’s traumatic cultural history?With the time of introduction in the cinema, in 20th century, the horror genre has been mainly to evoke the anxiety and the visceral responses which comes from the audience. The prominent genre is …