Mama (2013)

John Chard

7.5

Mar 13, 2014

The Mothmom Possibly. Mama is directed by Andres Muschietti and written by Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti and Neil Cross. It stars Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nelisse, Daniel Kash, Javier Botet and Jane Moffat. Music is by Fernando Velazquez and cinematography by Antonio Riestra. A Suicidal father abducts his two young daughters and takes them to a cabin out in the woods, his intention is to kill them. Before he can enact his plan he is killed by a strange entity, leaving the two girls alone in the cabin. Years later the girls are discovered in th…

Gimly

6.0

Feb 6, 2017

Some wicked creature design and good child actors make up for Mama's "unfinished" feeling. Jessica Chastain delivers as usual. Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go.

Filipe Manuel Neto

3.0

Aug 1, 2022

**Inconstant, it starts well, but it gets worse and becomes tiring and boring. The ending is bad.** Guillermo del Toro has already used us to visually striking and intense films, so I was little surprised to find his name attached to this film. I even thought that he would be the director, but the direction was in charge of Andy Muschietti, and Del Toro is just an executive producer, in a gesture that seems just a publicity stunt. In any case, the film is not bad, and it even manages to create some tension and suspense… but it is still far from being a truly good horror film, mainly because…