Very good, 9 or 10 for Del Toro fans

Rating: 8/10 (3 July 2013)

Not really spoilers here, but I hit the check box just in case.
There are very intense moments in this movie, there's a scene maybe 10 minutes in where the children's father is about the pull off a murder/suicide that really brought some emotions out in me.
Jumps spots, yeah there's quite a few. Mama herself is very scary but (one of my dislikes in the movie) she's shown so much after the midway point you almost get used to it and the scare factor is off, the way she moves around is very cool though.
Loses a little steam at the end, there's not a happy ending which I did like, or else this would of gotten a lower grade for predictability.
Just on a side note, this might be one of the first Del Toro movies where one of his creatures doesn't have eyeballs in their palms (i.e. Hellboy, Pan's Lab)
Definitely one of the better horror films I've seen in the last twelve months though, and I watch a fair amount.