History YMMV / OrphanFirstKill

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: A very interesting case of this that keeps the VillainProtagonist more tolerable than the others around her. [[spoiler:It's revealed that the girl Esther/Leena is impersonating was killed by her brother, whose mother then helped cover it up. However, Tricia and Gunnar Albright are easier to hate because of their racism against her for being Slavic, classism, ableism in mocking her dwarfism, and self-centered natures.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:When Leena pushes Allen to his death for rejecting her, she calls out his name and looks heartbroken for a bit, which makes it unclear if she really intended to kill him then and there or might've just pushed him away by accident due to her emotions.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: From a Watsonian perspective, having Leena/Esther look older in the prequel compared to the [[Film/{{Orphan}} original film]] can be attributed to living in a mental institution for so long that she's become malnourished during her time there (and works with Leena's ruse that she's the missing Esther Albright who was abducted four years ago only to turn up in Russia, having much sharper facial features hinting that she was "starved and tortured"). Between two films, she stayed in an OrphanageOfLove where she's most likely fed and housed properly, and as a result, looks healthier and "fuller" by the time of the first film's events, and is able to pass for a child much more convincingly. This also extends to her con looking like a PaperThinDisguise at first, so during her stay in the orphanage, she's able to observe the other children in her surroundings, [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook polishing her]] [[DeliberatelyCuteChild childish façade]].

** This premise has also been used as a storyline in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' on two separate occasions.

* OlderThanYouThink: The plot of a grifter infiltrating a wealthy family by posing as a long lost child, only to discover that [[spoiler: the person they're impersonating has been DeadAllAlong and [[EvilAllAlong some of the family members]] are in on the conspiracy]] originated with the classic mystery novel ''Literature/BratFarrar'', which in turn was loosely adapted into the 1963 Film/HammerHorror film ''{{Film/Paranoiac}}''.

* OlderThanYouThink: The plot of a grifter infiltrating a wealthy family by impersonating a long lost child, only to discover that [[spoiler: the person they're pretending to be has been DeadAllAlong and [[EvilAllAlong some of the family members]] are in on it]] originated with the classic mystery novel ''Literature/BratFarrar'', which in turn was loosely adapted into the 1963 Film/HammerHorror film ''{{Film/Paranoiac}}''.

** The premise has also been featured on two separate episodes of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''.

** The premise has also been featured
on two separate episodes of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''.

** In real life, a 33-year-old Czech woman named Barbora Skrlová (which Leena/Esther is loosely based on) emigrated to Norway in 2007 and posed as a 13-year-old boy named Adam who was missing around the time she came into the country.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: [[spoiler: The mid-way twist of the film turns what's been a competent but familiar retread of the first film into a dark comedy about three evil people trying to keep up their terrible facades, and naturally, HilarityEnsues.]]
** After Leena escapes the asylum, she hides inside Dr. Anna's car till they reach her house, then hits her in the head with an iron bar and uses her house to prepare for her next steps. While it's fairly NightmareFuel, [[BlackComedy there's something darkly comedic]] about Leena taking her sweet time to 1) look at herself in the mirror, 2) [[WickedCultured play the piano]] [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic dramatically]], 3) [[AGlassOfChianti crack a bottle open]] [[WineIsClassy and sip some wine]] while 4) browsing the net for missing children she can impersonate, then 5) sign the name on her little bible and 6) look through some clothes... [[BloodIsTheNewBlack all the while covered in blood]], before ''finally'' cleaning up to dress up like a child. Then she goes for the door, and discovers Anna was still alive and bleeding from her head the whole time, before [[FauxAffablyEvil sheepishly apologizing]] with [[CrossesTheLineTwice "It usually takes only one (blow to the head to kill people)", and then bashes the poor woman's head in again... and gets splattered with blood all over again.]]
** What's Leena's reaction to [[spoiler: Tricia shooting Detective Donnan, revealing both her own psychopathy and the fact that she sees right through Leena's disguise?]]
---> '''Leena''': [[DidntSeeThatComing Hello]], [[PaperThinDisguise Mom]][[BlatantLies my!]]
** In the next morning of [[spoiler: forging their EnemyMine con, Tricia informs Leena that they must meet Dr. Seegar, who is suspicious of Leena because she "talked to a parrot" and called it Sydney, which was a macaw that has since passed. Leena (like most people might) [[FlatWhat is confused]], and Tricia gives a snappy answer that implies she is also annoyed by that DistinctionWithoutDifference, Leena's blunder OR the fact Dr. Seegar is so suspicious over (what she believes to be) an abducted child not knowing the difference.]]
---> '''Tricia''': All macaws are parrots. Not all fucking parrots are macaws.
** As if [[spoiler: Tricia's insane plan to force Esther into a mutual con to continue fooling Allen and everyone else isn't ludicrous and shortsighted enough, she actually ''mentors Leena into how to dress and manipulate people'' into actually believing she's a sweet little girl. [[VillainsOutShopping While also showing off the clothes she bought for her and discussing which ones she liked the most.]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer It has to be seen to be believed]].]]
** When Gunnar [[spoiler: [[BullyingADragon talks down to Leena, boasting how he controls her]], she slaps him. [[DoNotTauntCthulhu When he threatens to kill her]] [[TooDumbToLive if she does it again,]] [[RefugeInAudacity she calls his bluff]].]]
** After Esther escapes, she steals a car and books it down the highway. She rocks a pair of sunglasses, puts on Tricia's lipstick and puffs on a cigarette, all the while Michael Sembello's "Maniac" blares over the radio. It's an image as blatantly ridiculous as it is legitimately cool.
*** The fact she's pulled over by a cop in minutes, [[OhCrap has to put out her cigarette in a hurry]] and when approached replies as if she was a normal driver, asking if there's something wrong. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation We're left wondering if she's still]] [[TheFakeCutie playing the part of a naughty kid playing with her parents' car keys]], or ''[[RefugeInAudacity did she try dropping the façade for a moment to trick the cop into thinking she's just a normal dwarf driving her own car?]]'' It doesn't work [[spoiler: because Tricia called the cops on "Esther", but it's still funny. Especially since she's still wearing Tricia's lipstick when the cop speaks to her.]]
** At one point [[spoiler: Trish corners Leena and castigates her for thinking Allen would ever accept or love her as a partner. Not funny at all, but her final note of saying "I'm going to go upstairs and fuck ''my'' husband" is just so [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilariously cruel.]]]]

* OlderThanYouThink: The plot of a grifter infiltrating a wealthy family by impersonating a long lost child, only to discover that [[spoiler: the person they're pretending to be has been DeadAllAlong and [[EvilAllAlong some of the family members]] are in on it]] originated with the classic mystery novel ''Literature/BratFarrar'', which in turn was loosely adapted into the 1963 Film/HammerHorror film ''Film/Paranoiac''.