Mama

I walked back home after watching Mama and that too to an empty house that is currently in a situation that can be best described by one word – DARK.  All of it thanks to a process of shifting that will take till the weekend to get done and dusted.  But for the time being it was not a very comfortable position.  Wonder how all the dark areas in your house get magnified when you are alone after a horror movie.

So there is a man called Jeffrey (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who comes in home to his kids – Victoria (Morgan McGarry / Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nélisse).  He starts mumbling a lot of garbage but doesn’t quite tell the kids what has happened.  He just picks them up and runs away with them. 

 

But it isn’t a great idea to speed on icy roads.  Jeffrey soon finds himself and his daughters at the bottom of a ravine. But they are conscious enough to find their way to a small house that’s in the middle of nowhere.  Jeffrey’s twin brother Lucas comes home to find his sister in law dead. 

 

He keeps the search for his brother and five years later they find the kids.  Only, the kids can be described as alien looking and capable of taking lives.  They have survived on cherries and other things that cannot be described.  They are taken back home and put into psychiatric care.  How did the kids survive?

 

This is director Andrés Muschietti’s first full length feature film as a director.  And I can tell you he does enough to keep me interested for his next one.  He keeps the entire movie dark as dark can get even when it is broad daylight outside.  Just the right amount of light trickles in to ensure that eerie feeling.

 

The music is creepy and crawls up your spine with every passing second.  While the highs and lows in the music are predictable, it is still very well done.  Gets me scared for certain but seasoned horror movie fanatics may find it barely there. 

 

Good solid performances especially from Jessica Chastain who I have come to admire as an extremely talented actress.  But this time around she gets quite a bit of a challenge from Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nélisse who play the kids.  The latter is actually more scary than anything else.  7 on 10.  Good watch if you like horror.

 

Trailer on http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4261979161/?ref_=tt_ov_vi