"Mama" or "Pacific Rim?"

Rating: 6/10 (22 October 2013)

Parts of this movie are genuinely scary. About as scary as any movie has been in a long time. Enough so that you wonder why Guillermo del Toro will not direct these movies instead of just signing his name to them. If Steven Spielberg is smart enough to direct a gem like "War of the Worlds", and Peter Jackson "The Lovely Bones" or "King Kong", when is Del Toro going to get smart enough to direct movies like "The Orphanage" or "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" or "Mama?" The lonely, creepy, isolated atmosphere, the intense focus on the mother and daughter characters, the classic female character in jeopardy with little or no outside help or influence... Robert Zemeckis did this with "What Lies Beneath" and we can not be thankful enough. I hope that Del Toro will wake up from his "Pacific Rim" delusion of grandeur and treat us to a movie like "Mama" crafted with his own special directorial ability soon.