TheVidiot Reviews

Rating: 6/10 (7 May 2013)

Mama
The hardest part of adopting feral children is getting them to stop sniffing strangers' crotches.
Fortunately, the wild children in this horror have a mysterious entity to keep them in line.
Five years after being abandoned by their suicidal father, Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nélisse) are rescued from an isolated cabin and placed in the custody of their Uncle (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau).
But when he is suddenly hospitalized, guardianship falls on his punk rock bassist girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain).
Home alone with the undomesticated darlings, Annabel is introduced to a being the sisters call Mama - a possessive poltergeist that is growing increasingly jealous of Annabel's newfound fondness for the girls.
A maternal ghost story, Mama's sinister aesthetic is accentuated by genuine scares provided by the rehabilitated wildlings and their forlorn phantom.
Furthermore, with their growling, spitting and rudimentary English, Annabel's feral children could sing in her punk band.
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