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Mama - Jessica Chastain
A father cracks and shoots his business partners before driving home to shoot his wife and kidnap his two young daughters aged 1 and 3 (respectively). He drives recklessly which results in a spin out of the car in the woods. He walks with his daughters to what appears to be an abandoned cabin with a decor of the 1960s. He is about to shoot his older daughter when he is killed by a woman who is floating off the ground. The two girls are left in the cabin cared for by this entity that killed their father and who some how feeds them cherries in the middle of winter. The girls disappear for five years in the woods and become more and more ferral. Their uncle meanwhile spends all of his money attempting to locate the girls. His investgator finds them. They are returned to civilization. Their uncle and his girlfriend bring the girls home under the eye of a therapist. The girls are weird and tell everyone that Mama has cared for them.
There are a few plot points left out of the above description: an aunt who is fighting for the girls, the therapist who is sure the older girl is Mama, the younger girl who is still ferral and loves Mama, the older girl who loves and fears Mama and is accepting of civilization, the uncle who gets injured and is out of most of the movie, and the girlfriend who doesn't want to be a mother but finds herself becoming one. And of course Mama, ghostie who loves and protects the girls and has her own backstory that she reveals in dreams.
Oh, how I wanted to like this movie. The description above even as I write it makes the movie sound delightful. Who is this Mama? How did these girls survive? Why won't Mama let go? Sigh. The movie's star: Mama, is terrible. The CGI ghost/thing is not scary. The distorted pale face with spindly arms and legs that floats about is as about a scary as a plastic bag. Sure the bag can float into screen with the proper music and you'll jump but then you remember, that's just a plastic bag and it is not scary at all.
Don't bother with this film. It is not even entertaining in a campy sort of way. It is just bad. The beginning is weird, the middle off putting, and the end terrible. Avoid if possible.
A father cracks and shoots his business partners before driving home to shoot his wife and kidnap his two young daughters aged 1 and 3 (respectively). He drives recklessly which results in a spin out of the car in the woods. He walks with his daughters to what appears to be an abandoned cabin with a decor of the 1960s. He is about to shoot his older daughter when he is killed by a woman who is floating off the ground. The two girls are left in the cabin cared for by this entity that killed their father and who some how feeds them cherries in the middle of winter. The girls disappear for five years in the woods and become more and more ferral. Their uncle meanwhile spends all of his money attempting to locate the girls. His investgator finds them. They are returned to civilization. Their uncle and his girlfriend bring the girls home under the eye of a therapist. The girls are weird and tell everyone that Mama has cared for them.
There are a few plot points left out of the above description: an aunt who is fighting for the girls, the therapist who is sure the older girl is Mama, the younger girl who is still ferral and loves Mama, the older girl who loves and fears Mama and is accepting of civilization, the uncle who gets injured and is out of most of the movie, and the girlfriend who doesn't want to be a mother but finds herself becoming one. And of course Mama, ghostie who loves and protects the girls and has her own backstory that she reveals in dreams.
Oh, how I wanted to like this movie. The description above even as I write it makes the movie sound delightful. Who is this Mama? How did these girls survive? Why won't Mama let go? Sigh. The movie's star: Mama, is terrible. The CGI ghost/thing is not scary. The distorted pale face with spindly arms and legs that floats about is as about a scary as a plastic bag. Sure the bag can float into screen with the proper music and you'll jump but then you remember, that's just a plastic bag and it is not scary at all.
Don't bother with this film. It is not even entertaining in a campy sort of way. It is just bad. The beginning is weird, the middle off putting, and the end terrible. Avoid if possible.
Labels: Bad, CGI, Horror, Jessica Chastain, Mama
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