![]() Dreyfuss (Daniel Kash) provides them with a two-story home in order to ensure the girls’ therapy in reality, he smells a lucrative book deal. The girls, Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nélisse), are in need of special care which struggling artist Lucas and his punk rocker girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty) can’t afford. They are inevitably found, still living the cabin, having gone almost complete feral. (Is there any other kind?) Just as Jeffrey is about to go murder-suicide, something kills him.įlash forward five years Jeffrey’s twin brother Lucas (Coster-Waldau, natch) has been searching for the girls ever since. Wiping out on icy mountain roads, the three stumble through the wilderness and happen upon a dilapidated cabin in the woods. The perpetrator, Jeffrey ( Game of Thrones‘ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) makes a quick stop at home to kill his estranged wife and kidnap his young daughters before making a run for it. Mama opens promisingly enough, with a news report of a conflation of the most modern of fears, financial panic combined with a mass shooting. Rookie director Andres Muschietti adapts his own Spanish-language short film, under the guiding hand of producer and rising horror movie icon Guillermo del Toro ( Pan’s Labyrinth), the latter of whom has worked as a producer on a number of similar films over the past few years, to varying degrees of success. Graced with a simple but rich premise, Mama starts off at a brisk pace but eventually runs out of energy and staggers through a perplexing conclusion that tries to be both happy and downbeat at the same time. Jessica Chastain goes gothy for the horror melodrama ‘Mama’.
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