Mama - Review by Stu Coote
I’m not a fan of horror films. Be it the relentlessly gory slasher flick, the in-vogue zombie apocalypse tale or the traditional haunted house formula, the genre has never appealed to me. I’d like to say it’s due to my being reared on a diet of slapstick comedies and classic Hollywood flicks, but really it’s because I’m a great big wuss. So, it was with a great show of mettle, that I put aside my trepidations and dared to enter the world of Mama , the latest film by Andres Muschietti, based upon his short film of the same name released in 2008. Mama follows two young girls, Victoria and Lilly, who are abandoned in a spooky forest after the death of their parents. They are found five years later, thanks to a rescue operation orchestrated by their Uncle Jeffery (Nikolaj Coster Waldau), and resume a normal life under the his guardianship and that of his girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain). But all, of course, is not what it seems …