I haven't been thrilled this way for a long time

Rating: 8/10 (1 February 2016)

As all the others Guillermo del Toro's movies i've so far, i really liked this. The "monsters" he creates are always super creepy, and even the "pan's labyrinth" had a couple super-scary characters, even though it wasn't meant to be a horror (at least, not completely). "mama" has a lot of great things, and a few bad things. I loved how mama's appearance is not shown until the half of the movie. I found brilliant the scenes where the girls play with mama, and you only see the girls. Some scenes were simply terrifying: when Annabel see something in a corner and thinks it's lily hiding under a blanket, but then she hears the girls downstairs; when Victoria looks at something really tall behind the doctor during the interrogatory; when the hunters find the girls in the old house; when Annabel is about to open the closet in the girls room; and many others. All those scenes sends shivers down my spine when thinking about them, and that's what makes the movie great. I would give it a strong 9, but i lowered to 8 because the final scene could have been handled better and also because some scenes had a couple clichés i didn't like (everyone is going around at night, alone, every time. Why would the doctor be so stupid, since he knows what's hiding there?
Apart from those minor things i didn't like, i really enjoyed the movie, and i think it's strongly underrated (mostly because i've seen the same rating on way worse horror movies.)