Mama (2013)

Release date: 2013-01-18
Country: Canada|Spain
Language: English
Director: Andy Muschietti
Production Co: Universal Pictures, De Milo, Toma 78
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 6.2/10
Length: 1h 40min

Storyline

Jeffrey Desange, senior partner of an investment brokerage, has a breakdown after a financial collapse and kills several co-workers and his estranged wife and kidnaps his two young daughters, Victoria and Lily. When they're found five years later, they're taken in by their uncle (their father's twin brother) and his girlfriend. Macabre events soon make the new guardians suspect that a supernatural evil force named Mama has attached itself to the girls.

Plot Keywords

mother daughter relationship, supernatural horror, haunted house, cabin in the woods, ghost, car crash, starting a fire, dachshund, startled, passionate kiss, falling down stairs, doll, title spoken by character, based on short film, one word title, forest, car accident, mental asylum, surrogate mother, research

Short Review

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.