scary

Rating: 9/10 (2 August 2014)

This is one way to make a scary horror film. A while I wrote a review for Scarecrows, and I would rank both these movies as examples-with shocks and thrills. Leonard Maltin was right when he called this film "genuinely scary." This movie deals with a father and two small children who survive a car accident in the woods, and they find a cabin, and the father gets "dragged away." Five years later, the father's brother finds the cabin and the girls-feral, filthy, and like wild animals. He and his girlfriend (part of a rock band) take them to a psychiatric facility, where they reveal that someone (or something) named "Mama" has been looking over them. They then get charged with looking over them.
What happens next is unforgettable. I loved the creepy atmosphere, the scenes with the slugs, the holes in the wall, the "creeping hair," and the shadows. You will never forget the final showdown scene. I truly mean that.
This was one of my favorite movies, horror or otherwise. I really recommend it.
*** 1/2 out of ****