Horrible Mother love: two wild sisters are followed by their dead mother. Horror flick starring Jessica Chastain.

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A frustrated businessman kills his wife and colleagues and kidnaps his toddler daughters. After a car accident, he reaches an isolated cabin in the woods and plans to keep killing. But before he can, a strange and aggressive being attacks him: it's Mama, an unredeemed, poor soul from the 19th century. This is where Andres Muschietti's horror drama takes off. Five years later, a search party finds the girls, who are now six and eight, healthy but wild and behind in development. After being examined, they are placed in the care of their Uncle Jeffrey (TV star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau plays both father and brother) and his girlfriend Annabel (brilliant: Jessica Chastain), a rock musician...

Argentinean director Andres Muschietti has expanded his short film "Mama" into a slick, mostly fascinating horror thriller. Mama is amazing most of the time, because Muschietti not only offers up crazed zombie bits, but also psychologically strong moments full of melancholy, fairy-tale emotions. In the end the plot is a bit simple, because important supporting roles devolve into caricatures and the story ends in an orgy of screaming and special effects; a negative aspect of many horror flicks. Mama is nonetheless solid entertainment for adults.