Janie's Got A Gun

Rating: 8/10 (12 July 2013)

MAMA (dir. Andres Muschietti) This movie is an unparalleled, super- terrific 'thrill ride' of a ghost film. It's executive producer is horror master Guillermo del Toro, and the film provides a maximum of mind blowing excitement and terrifying images that are solidly backed by an unforgettable storyline.
After a mysterious shooting, two very young sisters are abandoned in a creepy cabin deep in the forest and raised by a ghost who they refer to as 'mama'. For nearly five years their uncle and his rock-chick girlfriend have been unsuccessfully trying to locate them. Finally the girls are rescued, and brought back to suburbia to reclaim their shot at a comfortable middle-class life. But these two siblings are very rough around the psychic edges, and unearthly mischief and mayhem sticks to them like paranormal ectoplasm.
The film's superior production team employs unbelievable dream sequences and computer generated special effects to propel the story that were widely popularized by Japanese and Korean filmmakers such as Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Bong Joon-ho, and Kim Ji-woon during the 90's. However, in no way is the film an homage, but MAMA is a brilliant standout in the Horror Genre, and very much a MUST SEE.