whitneejohnson
***I'll tell you right now, I didn't care for the ending....***Anywho, Mama was a pretty decent movie. I felt it was a very different and unique storyline and it had a few scary parts. I do feel it deserves a sequel and possibly a better look for Mama. The character didn't look as scary to me or as good as the scary characters in other movies. Again, this is just my opinion. Definitely watch this movie.
Leon Smoothy
Seemed like a pretty standard run-of-the-mill horror movie when I first read about it and saw the trailers, but as I saw it (about 3 weeks before official release) it's actually one of the new millenias most unusual film in its genre. It's has a very dark and strange theme and feel to it, but at the same time an old school Grimm-brothers-like storyline and keeps on surprising. Truly unique and a must see for any horror movie fan.
kurt-2000
Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nélisse stole the show. It's just amazing what a great job these two child actors did. The show is worth watching just to see them. But then the charm of Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau in Universal's widely successful Guillermo del Toro horror film made the film even better. I didn't give it a 10 because I would've made the ending a lot scarier, but the film had an honest ending, and the audience deserved that. I think that everything right up to the ending was wonderful. I like a horror film that makes me nervous, not knowing what the ending will do. And the scene where Lily was pulling on the blanket was brilliant. Everyone should enjoy certain aspects of this drama, so the 6.2 star rating was cruel, and further proves that many IMDb users are harsh. This film took $20 million to make and earned $71 million. If the show was a loser, it would've never made it to the $71 million mark. And now I see it plays on TV regularly, so the viewership ratings and advertising revenue income says something about a film's followed. Cable stations don't make money from loser films.
Pozdnyshev
Okay, so some guy goes nuts and shoots his wife. He takes his two daughters out to an abandoned cabin and is about to kill them, too, but is then stopped by a ghost who happens to be at the cabin. Great... Okay, so it was a ghost who was maybe unjustly murdered in a similar way. I can buy that.But then, even after paying some guys to look all over the place for his body, the guy's brother only finds this cabin (and the girls, who are still there) -- five years later. Really? It took you all that time? Okay, fine, whatever. So the girls are feral and apparently have been helped along by this mysterious, vengeful spirit which they call "Mama."The guy's brother, and his weird over-the-hill Goth girlfriend, agree to look after the children as they are rehabilitated with the help of a psychologist. Unfortunately, this spirit follows them.Cue faux-creepy dream sequences, jump scares, and the psychologist slowly uncovering the truth that The Supernatural Is Real. Turns out "Mama" is the ghost of some violently crazy lady in the nineteenth century who died while drowning a baby she stole from a local church. There is a dream sequence showing this which is genuinely disturbing, although in a disgusting snuff-film kind of way."Mama," predictably, wreaks havoc on everyone involved, including killing several people with more ease than a trained assassin. Call me a parapsychology nerd, but human ghosts generally do not have this kind of power. "Mama" slinks around and offs victims like a multi-dimensional Green Beret. This just makes it silly to me.The ending was just confusing. It's funny, everything about this movie was perfect except for the story. The acting, the photography, the music, and the editing was all incredibly seamless. But the story was bland and cookie-cutter, just another forgettable horror flick.
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