Mama
Lilly and Victoria where lost in the woods the day their mother died, never to be seen until years later when they where miraculously found in a cabin, but something keeps dragging the girls to the world untold.
1941, Swastika, Ontario, Canada
27 July 1970, Rudkøbing, Denmark
30 July 1977, Ciudad Real, Spain
24 March 1977, Sacramento, California, USA
25 April 1959, Montréal, Québec, Canada
22 August 1975, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
August 24, 2015
Clearly suffers from post-production tinkering but offers some decent chills at its best moments.
August 01, 2013
[The movie] has more integrity than its creepshow peers. The story basically comes down to a dead-looking woman who doesn't want to be a mother fighting for parental custody against a long-dead woman who does. (Grad students, start your theses.)
January 21, 2013
I was guessing right till the bitter, scary, transcendent end.
October 26, 2014
If horror movies can be regarded for their degree of effort, then here is one of the hardest-working of the recent past.
January 09, 2017
Good acting can't forgive bad effects or narrative choices, and yes, there are a lot of those.
January 01, 2014
The problem is that [the] movie barely meets the minimum generic requirements, and thus comes off as pretentious for presuming to hover so airily above them.
February 20, 2013
By splitting the action between several different characters and locations, the plot dissipates the suspense and lacks focus, as if it has been bolted together from disparate, ill-fitting pieces.
May 10, 2016
While Del Toro uses fantasy elements to reach deeper into childhood fear (see Pan's Labyrinth), Mama has flashes of terror then sets back to be, at best, routine.
January 01, 2014
Mama is a terrifying success.
January 24, 2013
Even if the beats are familiar, Muschietti sustains a remarkable mood throughout: wintry, elemental and stark, like a late Sylvia Plath poem.
February 20, 2014
The seeds of a truly great horror film are here, but they aren't quite developed enough to leave you with something truly memorable.
January 25, 2013
Screenplay contrivances aside, it's as stylish and atmospheric as modern horror gets.
