🩸👧 Orphan: First Kill (2022): Evil doesn’t grow up—it hides in plain sight.

"Before the orphanage, before the lies—there was the first kill."

Before she was Esther, she was something else entirely.

Orphan: First Kill peels back the porcelain mask of one of horror’s most chilling villains and drags us deep into the origin of the nightmare. This prequel is more than a return to the madness—it’s a glimpse into the making of a monster. And what we find beneath the surface is not innocence lost, but manipulation perfected.

The film follows Leena Klammer, a 31-year-old woman with a rare hormonal disorder that makes her look like a child. After escaping from a psychiatric facility in Estonia, she executes a brilliant and brutal plan: assume the identity of “Esther,” a missing American girl from a wealthy family.

But as Leena steps into the lavish home of Tricia and Allen Albright, what she expects to be an easy deception twists into something more sinister. Because the Albrights have secrets of their own—and Tricia, the seemingly grieving mother, may be just as dangerous as the imposter she welcomes into her home.

With icy tension, sharp performances, and shocking reversals, Orphan: First Kill isn’t just a horror prequel—it’s a high-stakes psychological game of predator vs. predator. And by the time the blood dries, we no longer know who’s the villain, and who’s the survivor.