Mama
2013 · Movie · PG-13 · 100 min · ★ 6.3 · 60% critics
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller about two little girls who vanished into the woods the day their parents were killed. Rescued years later, they start a new life but realize something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
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Details
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-01-17
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Critic score
- 60/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (4,423 votes)
- Box office
- $146,428,180
- Budget
- $15,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy Mama if you want a haunting supernatural thriller with unsettling kids-in-peril energy and a dark, fairy-tale vibe like It: Chapter Two or Pyewacket; Not for you if you hate stories that grow less scary later.
Pros: eerie atmosphere; strong young cast; effective creep factor | Cons: rushed storytelling; underdeveloped arcs; fear fades late
Themes
- musician
- supernatural
- haunted house
- feral child
- car crash
- woods
- tragedy
- cabin
- ghost
- mother daughter relationship
- richmond, virginia
Cast & crew
Jessica Chastain
as Annabel
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
as Lucas Desange
Megan Charpentier
as Victoria Desange
Isabelle Nélisse
as Lilly Desange
Daniel Kash
as Dr. Dreyfuss
Melina Matthews
as Mama (voice)
Morgan McGarry
as Young Victoria
Javier Botet
as Mama (body)
Jane Moffat
as Jean Podolski / Mama (Voice)
David Fox
as Burnsie
Directed by Andy Muschietti