Scary horror film with many loose threads

Rating: 6/10 (29 April 2013)

Mama is a story about two little girls left alone in the woods after their father drives the car off a cliff. To survive, they create a fantasy "mama" figure who looks after them. After five years, their uncle finally finds them and, along with his rocker girlfriend, wants to adopt them. However the two girls are deeply disturbed and they must cut a deal with a psychologist who wants to study them.
This film has horror themes, with all the predictable mainstream horror clichés, especially with the never ending shock moments, the inexplicable scenes where the heroes must stay in the house and the fact that they do any investigations at night. Let alone they don't seem to talk to anyone else in the whole movie.
There are also many events, characters and information that happen that don't develop anything in the plot. And they aren't even red herrings.
The strongest parts of this movie are those that made The Ring a great movie - beautiful dark imagery, scary children and a mystery to unravel, but unfortunately in a completely more illogical way with much shallower characters.
Most of the situations were so ridiculous that I was laughing quite regularly. In fact, if it didn't have the "it's so bad it's good factor", I would have given it a much lower rating.
It's certainly one to watch if you want to be entertained and it's very well shot and a beautiful movie. But certainly one that I will not be revisiting.