MacKay stars alongside The VVitch‘s Anya Taylor-Joy, Stranger Things‘ Charlie Heaton, and A Cure for Wellness‘ Mia Goth.
Its writer Sergio G. Sánchez, who also penned 2010’s The Impossible, now makes his directorial debut with The Secret of Marrowbone, having also crafted the film’s screenplay.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, with a release in Sánchez’s native Spain in October of last year.
The Orphanage has found its place as one of the great chillers of the 21st century, capable of intermixing truly unsettling scares and a deeper vein of emotion.