A frightening movie that earns its scares the hard way, generating unbearable tension through artful technique instead of computer. First-time director Juan Antonio Bayona tackles the larger issues raised by the terrors of childhood. The fi lm begins at an orphanage in Spain where a seven-year-old girl plays unsettling games with other children, whom she forgets after she is adopted. Or does she? Jump ahead thirty years and the girl, Laura (the quietly devastating Belén Rueda), has returned to turn the place into a home for disabled children. That good vibe isn't shared by Laura's young son, Simón (Roger Princep), who starts playing with imaginary friends and . . . I'll say no more, except that The Orphanage is one of the best movie ghost stories. It will haunt you big-time.

“Let My Love Open the Door”

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."