Surprisingly good and quite scary

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2014)

I didn't have high hopes for this film, however I was pleasantly surprised . My husband spent the whole movie covering his face.
We meet two little girls who's father obviously has mental health issues, he kills their mother and takes the two girls. However speeding away from the scene of the crime in the snow he crashes and ends up in some woodland.
They stumble across a cabin, however the cabin isn't as empty as they thought. Panic has set in and faced with his crime the father decides to kill himself, however he quickly realizes that his two young daughters will be left alone to care for themselves. He decides to end their lives too, I guess to save them starving or freezing to death alone.
However just before he can kill his oldest daughter a black figure takes him and kills him. This figure is "Mama" and she takes care of the children for the coming years, until they are finally found.
Their uncle and his immature girlfriend take on the girls and Mama makes sure it's no easy task. I won't spoil it too much.
I enjoyed the characters and the feral aspect of the children, walking on all fours made it just that little more creepy.
I've been struggling to find a movie that tickles my fancy but this did a good job. Although the ending left me feeling a little empty, unresolved.