VividSimon Simply Perfect

Steineded How sad is this?

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Prismark10 An investment banker Jeffrey (Nikolaj Coaster- Waldau) has a breakdown and kills his wife and two colleagues. He takes his two infant daughters to a cabin in the woods and plans to kill them but they are saved by some entity that protects the girls and raises them. They call her Mama.For five years the girls' uncle, Lucas (also Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) has led a search for the girls and they are found in the cabin. Lucas faces a custody battle with the girl's grandmother but a doctor and a medical institute come to his assistance. Lucas raises them with his rock singer girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain.) When Lucas is hospitalised after an accident, Annabel reluctantly looks after the kids but Mama has been visiting the girls.The film is produced by Guillermo Del Toro and has elements of a dark twisted gothic fairy tale where things certainly go bump in the night. It is dark and creepy but by the end a little too dark as you cannot see what is going on. It probably is deliberate as the film literally falls of a cliff to a messy and stupid ending.

Michael O'Keefe Guillermo del Toro presents this spine chilling thriller directed and co-written by Andy Muschietti. After personal disaster and trauma, two young girls are left alone to survive in a decrepit cabin in the woods. Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nelisse) are found five years later by their Uncle (Nikola Coaster-Walau) and his girlfriend (Jessica Chastain), who take them in and try to introduce the girls to a normal life. Victoria and Lilly claim they survived because of the care given them from "Mama".This is a scary tug of war thriller with the supernatural. Very young children probably should not see this one in spite of the lack of violence, blood and brutality in most other movies. There will be times for jumping out of your seat and wringing your white knuckles. Top notch photography and atmosphere. More than enough scary situations with a thin line between mega-goosebumps and nervous laughter.Don't insist on checking closets or under the bed soon after seeing MAMA.Others in the cast: David Fox, Julia Chantrey, Daniel Kash, Jane Moffat and "Mama" is Javier Botet.

NicholasMCG I am a huge fan of movies like Pan's Labyrinth and had medium-high hopes for Mama so that I bought it without having seen it in the theater first. Totally. Worth It. I loved the classic ghost story twist with a storyline involving a woman who wasn't your typical girlfriend and more interested in rocking out than being a step-mom to 2 feral children. I loved the set design, and felt shivers from my screen.... I LOVED the special effects and that one scene where the little girl is playing "tug a pillow" wow... That really got me. The ending I know has some people annoyed but for me it was satisfying and the only real way that everything that followed could be wrapped up. There could never be a happy ending here, but there could be some kind of closure. My only issue? The wig that Jessica Chastain had to wear. They could have done better by her.

Pozdnyshev Okay, so some guy goes nuts and shoots his wife. He takes his two daughters out to an abandoned cabin and is about to kill them, too, but is then stopped by a ghost who happens to be at the cabin. Great... Okay, so it was a ghost who was maybe unjustly murdered in a similar way. I can buy that.But then, even after paying some guys to look all over the place for his body, the guy's brother only finds this cabin (and the girls, who are still there) -- five years later. Really? It took you all that time? Okay, fine, whatever. So the girls are feral and apparently have been helped along by this mysterious, vengeful spirit which they call "Mama."The guy's brother, and his weird over-the-hill Goth girlfriend, agree to look after the children as they are rehabilitated with the help of a psychologist. Unfortunately, this spirit follows them.Cue faux-creepy dream sequences, jump scares, and the psychologist slowly uncovering the truth that The Supernatural Is Real. Turns out "Mama" is the ghost of some violently crazy lady in the nineteenth century who died while drowning a baby she stole from a local church. There is a dream sequence showing this which is genuinely disturbing, although in a disgusting snuff-film kind of way."Mama," predictably, wreaks havoc on everyone involved, including killing several people with more ease than a trained assassin. Call me a parapsychology nerd, but human ghosts generally do not have this kind of power. "Mama" slinks around and offs victims like a multi-dimensional Green Beret. This just makes it silly to me.The ending was just confusing. It's funny, everything about this movie was perfect except for the story. The acting, the photography, the music, and the editing was all incredibly seamless. But the story was bland and cookie-cutter, just another forgettable horror flick.