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Mama’s strength lies in its atmosphere and for the first hour or so; the movie holds a spell over you thanks to some creepy visuals and background score that hits all the right notes. There is ever-present sense of dread that drips from every frame like cold sweat and till the movie’s biggest reveal turns the monster in the shadows into a C.G.I. abomination it’s one of the best horror movies I’ve seen in the past year. The last thirty odd minutes however are a huge letdown and it clearly shows that the makers had no idea what to do with the brilliant setup they have concocted. The movie starts off with a man whisking away two little girls to a cabin in the woods to kill them. Turns out it’s their father, who after the financial ruin he’s faced wishes not to live his life anymore. Just as the father is ready to pull the trigger, he’s attacked and killed by a mysterious creature but the girls for some reason are spared. Many years later, the cabin is found and the gi...

Guillermo del Toro presents ‘Mama’, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their mother was murdered. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night. The day their father killed their mother, sisters Victoria and Lilly vanished near their suburban neighborhood. For five long years, their Uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain), have been madly searching for them. But when, incredibly, the kids are found alive in a decrepit cabin, the couple wonders if the girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home. As Annabel tries to introduce the children to a normal life, she grows convinced of an evil presence in their house. Are the sisters experiencing traumatic stress, or is a ghost coming to visit them? How did the broken girls survive those years al...