movie review for mama

jan 6th or the 18th 2013 I went to see Mama, starring Jessica Chastain with black hair spoiler alert: black hair  who proves to be just as intrepid as he is in Game of Thrones, though slightly less incestuous frowny face. Without giving anything away, Mama is about a dead lady Mama, who connects with her surrogate children via vagina-shaped holes in the wall.  To be fair, these holes are more like animat shadows that sort of breathe and spit moths, and the film itself is very scary. I had bruise afterward from jerking around in my seat and knocking my knees on the cup holders, and spent most of the 100 minute thrill ride with my cheek pressed into my companion's neck. Turns out there's not much creepier or more captivating than feral children skittering around like crabs. Mama is produced by Guillermo del Toro, the guy who brought us Pan's Labyrinth, so you can expect elements of fantasy and tenderness, which make the film moving and thought provoking as well as frightening. Aesthetically and story wise, imagine something along the lines of Pan's Labyrinth meets Hansel and Gretel meets The Orphan meets The Ring, and you have Mama. Like most horror movies, Mama loses a lot of steam once you get a good, long look at Mama, herself. But in this case, I felt like the deflation was more due to Mama's humanity than it was to bad make-up or cartoonish special effects  not the same as whatever disappointment you may have felt upon finally seeing the aliens in . By the time we finally see Mama, we understand her  we feel bad for her  and empathy will make you less afraid of anybody. 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 mother was murdered. 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. The day their father killed their mother, sisters Victoria and Lilly vanished near their suburban neighborhood. For five long years, their Uncle Lucas Nikolaj Coster Waldau and his girlfriend, Annabel Jessica Chastain, have been madly searching for them. But when, incredibly, the kids are found alive in a decrepit cabin, the couple wonders if the girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home. Universal