2013 · horror · drama
Mama (2013)
Directed by Andy Muschietti1h 40m2013
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Our read: Mama (2013) (2013) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
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“You want atmospheric supernatural horror about a ghost mother's fierce bond with feral children.”
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