Mama

(2013)

I totally didn't realise this was by the same man who did 'Don't be afraid of the dark' and 'Pans labyrinth' until I saw his name in the opening credits so my feelings towards the movie changed from 'this is more then likely going to be crap... ' to 'Oh! I don't hate that guy!'

Not many pictures mostly due to lack of them but also I didn't want to ruin it haha. 

So movie starts with a new report that a man has killed two people he works with and also his wife who he is no longer seeing. Then we see two girls with a very panicked man pretty much kidnapping them. Their dad drives like a fucking asshole down an icy road and crashes and realises they are in the middle of no where.

They find a shack that just screams horror movie cliche so loud that your sitting there gripping the arms of the cinema seats bracing yourself for an obvious scare but still not sure when it will hit. The man is a blubbering mess and when he decides he's too pussy to kill himself... he decides he's the kind of man who could kill a child much easier.

The little girl looks out the window and while father of the year is blubbering she simply goes "Theres a women out there" not so scary... "Why aren't her feet touching the ground?" that one comment sent shivers down my spine and in the next second BANG dead dad.

Time skips and the uncle of crazy face dad is desperately trying to find the girls as there bodies have never been found and he is so sure they are alive and whats the best way to find your young relatives? two red necks and the dog from Lady and The Tramp. Good call.

But hey we can't judge him TOO much as his girlfriend is hot, I mean like rebel goth girl Avril Lavinie wishes she was all of that hot. Nom.

Anyway instead of me sat here drooling over fit women I will carry on.

Very different lifestyles it's hard to see how they could make a good couple, she's in a rock band and hates kids and he seems to have devoted all his time to finding kids.

Anyway the hicks while taking a piss find the crashed car and the shack and they find the two girls. Head to two in filth and holy shit the way they move, the way the scuttle across those floors and work tops, it's honestly terrifying. They are possibly the most creepy thing in the movie. ugggh!

So they get washed and cleaned up and the uncle is informed while they are being held by a child shrink. It turns out that they lived in that shack with a person they call Mama and can talk to and see where as no adults can. The oldest girl was already talking when she was lost but the youngest was only one and thus learned very little 'human' things so the oldest comes around and is very happy that her uncle is here for them.

The sister of their dead mother wants to have the kids and all things pointed to her getting them even the shrink wanted her to win but if the uncle was to give the shrink access to the crazy wilderness kids he would sway the vote and give them a huge house if he allowed it.. and so he did.

They live in the house but they don't realise that 'Mama' is a person, a being that followed the children and raised them out in the shack and saved them from their nutjob father and she's not happy that a new women is trying to take over her roll.

You see some creepy shit like you only see faint glimpses of Mama for ages, see a shape move or sneak into the walls or dart past a window. The girls aren't scared of her and we even see the youngish playing with a sheet tugging at it and having fun.. we then see her older sister walking down the hall..

It's the unseen touches like this that make the movie a very scary movie in allot of places. The tension and the fear of funnily seeing Mama. What you don't see is by far more scary then what you do. The tale unfolds of Mama's tragic past and the fight the new mother has to deal with to keep them and herself safe all the while the uncle is in a coma or just pretty much fucking useless.

It's a powerful female role movie as I've noticed most his works are.. always a strong enough main female charter who is thrown into a fucked up world.

Sadly once they start showing Mama.. alot she just looks like someone who smacked their face too hard against a concrete block and she stops being scary.. and when she looks like an angry wig running along the floor.. you get some chuckles.. some silly things like that could have been avoided to keep the scare factor.

But when you first fully see her... oh god it's scary and the way she moves.. nopenopenope fucking nope. The ending is sad and touching and I do think sad endings do have good places in horror.

Old school scares with a tragic air. More of this please and less of your fucking remakes horror world.

Scares:4.5/5

Gore: 0/5

Story:4/5

Acting:3.5/5

Overall enjoymennt: 4.5/5

Better then I thought, would watch again.

XJigsawX