This supernatural and chilling thriller is a good Spanish/Canadian co-production

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2013)

Supernatural horror plenty of weird phenomenon , creepy ghoul and eerie events . It deals with Annabel (Jessica Chastain) and Lucas (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nélisse) that were left alone in the forest for 5 years but how alone were they . The couple and children move into a new home , but they are not alone in the mansion . Little do they know that the house is haunted and a mother's love is forever . As Annabel and Lucas dealing with having to raise her two nieces who were recently recovered from a cabin in the woods where they'd raised themselves for years, and the maternal ghost (dubbed "Mama") who is still very possessive . Meanwhile , a psychiatrist, Dr. Dreyfuss (Daniel Kash) is investigating the strange events .
This is a thrilling movie that contains restless horror as when the ghastly and threatening being attacks . Spanish/Canadian horror film full of thrills , suspense , chills , intrigue and twists . It gives a terrifying and disturbingly view of a mother's love and adult fears in which posse an element of melancholy along with relentless horror . Tension , creepy atmosphere , genuine chills , suspense is continued and appear lurking and menacing into dining room , hallway and rooms . Great loads of screams , shocks and terror abound with the usual poltergeists phenomenon caused by the weird entity . It's recreated with magnificent make-up and high grade plethora special effects which are frightening and horrifying the spectator . Mama is played by a man , Javier Botet, who has Marfan syndrome that give him a slender body and long fingers . Mama's movement is not entirely CGI. Javier Botet can remove his joints as he wish ; the only CGI on Mama is her hair. Mama's appearance was inspired by painting by Modigliani, owned by the same director Andrés Muschietti .
Writers Andrés Muschietti , Barbara Muschietti and Neil Cross stated that when they wrote the film he had a list of horror movie clichés posted above him, so he could avoid using them ; they said the first one was to make sure the family moved into a new house once the haunting started . Eerie musical score by Fernando Velazquez who previously composed for successful terror films as ¨The orphanage¨ , ¨For the God of others¨ , ¨Devil¨ and ¨Julia's eyes¨ ; Fernando creates a spooky and frightening atmosphere . Dark as well atmospheric cinematography by Antonio Riestra . This Universal's surprise hit horror movie was well directed by Andres Muschietti , he formerly realized a three-minute short is what helped get his 2013 film made . For that reason what started off as a short, became a feature length movie and Guillermo Del Toro was the one who saw the potential in the movie . Andres Muschietti is circling a deal to come aboard the studio's reboot of its Mummy franchise . Mummy unleashed one-two Box Office punch and far exceeded the $22 million analysts had projected for the four days.