Storyline

In the heat of the summer, a lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields, lives nine-year-old twin brothers who are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their mother. It emerges an existential struggle for identity and fundamental trust.

Plot Keywords

torture, 11 year old, domineering mother, bug, bandaged face, immolation, burned to death, divorce, dead cat, identical twins, brother brother relationship, mother son relationship, cockroach, austria, bathtub, burping, twin, boy, countryside, mental illness

Short Review

I swear, if I wasn't running late for my second event of the night, I would have stood up in the theater and did a long slow clap after watching the Austrian horror, GOODNIGHT MOMMY.

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