Two years before child impersonator Esther turned her wrath on her adopted family in pursuit of unrealistic relationship goals, Jacob Kogan's Joshua was doing something similar as a means of achieving upper middle-class domesticity with his Uncle Ned. Ned is pretty cool to Joshua, so naturally the precocious boy decides that Vera Farmiga and Sam Rockwell can go fuck themselves and the psychological attack begins. Since Joshua is more cunning than Esther, there isn't really any kind of grand fightback on the part of his parents, making "Joshua" a little less climactic than "Orphan" despite still being pretty good. Jacob Kogan never became a great actor but he was perfectly cast as the sinister little bastard here. Vera Farmiga and Sam Rockwell make for a great supporting duo, too, each compellingly losing their shit as their world collapses around them. Again, "Orphan" is better but "Joshua" is a solid entry into the killer kid genre.
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