Continuity mistake: When the medium leaves the bedroom following the first countdown, she turns right out of the room, but then 'backtracks' on herself, passing the room she had just left (you can see the chair she was sitting on in the background). However, Enrique, on his house plan, marks her walking in the direction she first took (right) and not as if she had turned left out of the room.
The Orphanage (2007)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: J.A. Bayona
Starring: Belen Rueda, Mabel Rivera, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep
The old woman turns out to be someone who worked at the orphange when Laura was there. Her son is the boy with the sack on his face, he was deformed and was hidden away from everyone at the orphanage. After Laura left her friends took him into the caves and took his mask off, he wouldn't come out and he drowned so the old woman poisoned all the children. Laura's hudband leaves the house and she stays to try and find Simon. She finds a door into a cellar under the stairs and Simon's body is down there. He was there the whole time and the banging Laura could hear the first night he disappeared was him trying to get out. Laura kills herself so that she can look after Simon and the ghosts of her friends.
Paddy
More mistakes in The Orphanage
Laura: 1, 2, 3. Toca la pared.
Question: Was the child with the sack over his head, who attacked the mother and locked her in the bathroom, Simon or one of the children (ghosts)?
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Answer: It was Simon. He had found the mask in Thomas' little house and attacked her while wearing it because he was angry she had fought with him. We know it is him as the boy in the mask is wearing Simon's shoes, and later on when Simon is found he is wearing the mask.