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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.

"Look at me, Damien! It's all for you!"

The Omen - Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens

Classic horror movie. This movie begins on 06/06/66 - the dreaded 666 - in Italy. Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) is an ambassador. His wife is pregnant and in labor. The child dies and while at hospital he is convinced by a priest to switch his dead child with another child born to a mother who died in labor. The coloring of all involved is similar and no one will be the wiser.  Knowing how desperately his wife wanted a baby he agrees to this plan.

All is well until Damien's 6th birthday when things begin to happen. His son's nanny commits suicide during the child's birthday. A replacement nanny appears along with a large hound. Mrs. Thorn begins to suspect there is something wrong with Damien and that he is not her child.  A priest begins to haunt Mr. Thorn trying to make him understand that there is something in fact wrong with the child - he is the son of Satan!

The film does not quite hold up as far as the scare factor is concerned. However, it is delightfully psychological: is he or is he not the son of Satan? A fun Halloween movie. Rent it on a dark stormy night if possible and watch with the lights out to enhance the viewing experience.