![]() ![]() Still, even if it doesn’t all hang together, Mama has no shortage of champion scary moments, expertly designed for maximum freak-out. Muschietti’s project (devised with his sister Barbara) had its genesis as a widely YouTubed three-minute short film, and the elongation seams do occasionally show, particularly in the third act, when characters begin appearing for the express purpose of being munched. As their reluctant new riot girl guardian (Chastain) soon discovers, this protective entity has a murderous case of separation anxiety. When they are miraculously found intact five years later, they credit their survival to a mysterious mother figure. (How many times can a little girl ferally scuttling around the edges of the frame be scary? Quite a few, actually.) Beginning with a literal Once Upon a Time, director-cowriter Andres Muschietti’s film concerns a pair of young girls left stranded in a creepy cabin in the woods after a family tragedy. Mama, del Toro’s 2013 production, continues this winning storybook streak, driven by a fiercely against-type performance by Jessica Chastain and an impressive number of uneasy frights. ![]() When he’s not making gargantuan movies about giant robots and/or comic book hell-beasts, Guillermo del Toro as a producer has fostered a movement toward dreamy, fairy-tale horror (The Orphanage, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark), where primally Grimm scenarios reach some unusually bittersweet resolutions. ![]()
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