Good,creepy addition to the genre.

Rating: 7/10 (10 May 2013)

My vote for this movie is 6.5 out of 10.
Mama falls into the grudge, ring and darkness falls category. BUT.
And it's a big but, the acting is 10 times better than those 3 movies put together, Jessica Chastain who shone in the outstanding The Help is again brilliant in this movie and the 2 little girls Megan Charpentier & Isabelle Nélisse are also just as good.
The story is of a brother Jeffrey who decides to go mad after some bad news in his job shoots his 2 partners along with his wife and takes his 2 kids out in the car to escape, he eventually crashes and leads to a desolate cabin in the woods, just when he is about to commit the same fatal blow to his kids in steps a dark ghostly figure to kill him and rescue the kids. In steps his brother Lucas who starts searching for them, with no luck after 5 years they eventually find them in the cabin they were left in, a quick custody battle and Lilly(Nelisse) and Victoria(Charpentier) move in with Lucas and Annabel(Chastain). Here's when the story gets creepy, the ghostly figure who has been looking after the children for the last 5 years comes with them to live, you get ghostly figures appearing out of nowhere, kids with strange creepy movements to freak you out, anyway the movie is set up for a big finale, can Lucas and Annabel find out who this ghostly figure is and what is her full story and the save the day before its too late. I'll let you watch to find out for yourselves, I myself would definitely recommend Mama.