Spanish for 'Boo!'

The haunted house genre isn't dead. It's just been waiting for a director with a dollop of imagination to knock on its door.

Director Juan Antonio Bayona's "The Orphanage," just released on DVD, does all the right things with this sturdy genre. My review at Pop Matters shares just how truly creepy the 2007 film turned out to be.

Little blood. No gore. Ah, what a nice change of pace.

(Photo: Who knew a kid wearing a burlap sack could be so scary? A scene from "The Orphanage")