murrayabigail I watched this movie this year on demand and I loved it. The kids who played Victoria and Lilly were really good(I still can't believe the kid who played Victoria played Greta in It(2017)). I do agree that Mama could've been animated better than she was, but overall it was a FANTASTIC movie. The ending was extremely emotional, and I cried so hard when Lilly died. Definitely one of my new favorite thrillers though, one I'll probably buy at some point

Eenieakane This movie starts with a long sequence of drawings that are fairly bizarre and then we are hit with the plot of the show which is enticing. Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nélisse's performance throughout the movie is gripping and professional, a lot of people will recognise Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as dastardly Jamie from Game of Thrones but he is out-acted here (but he is good in his role as well as Jessica Chastain.The story is fairly slow for a lot of audiences and there aren't any particular 'jump scares' that are thrown at the audience, there are lots of subtle hints in there and important parts that build up to what I thought a good finale. A lot of people I feel will struggle to understand the ending and with the slow build up if they haven't got into that I can imagine that the ending will leave people feeling they want more. Not your typical horror movie but as a fairly modern horror I thought it was interesting and worthy;Pro Negative + Emotional Ending - CGI Looks Dated + Solid Acting - Story Can Be Slow + Less Cliche Than Other Horror Flicks

G-Lange Some movies progress from a cartoonish style into realism – think of the animated flashbacks of Krampus or Harry Potter. This movies does the opposite. In particular, the fiend looks like a fuzzy version of Snow White's evil queen, and we see more and more of her as the movie progresses. It is no surprise that Del Toro produced this movie and was set to direct it. The last scene, with its heavy CGI and exclusively blue color palette seems to have been lifted from Pan's Labyrinth. In other movies, stylization shows how the memory transforms the past into legend. Or how one mind disconnects from reality, like in Pan's Labyrinth. Here there is not much reason for it. It works to the movie's advantage however, as it elevates what threatened to sag into a classic scary girl story into a more memorable fantasy show.

NicholasMCG I am a huge fan of movies like Pan's Labyrinth and had medium-high hopes for Mama so that I bought it without having seen it in the theater first. Totally. Worth It. I loved the classic ghost story twist with a storyline involving a woman who wasn't your typical girlfriend and more interested in rocking out than being a step-mom to 2 feral children. I loved the set design, and felt shivers from my screen.... I LOVED the special effects and that one scene where the little girl is playing "tug a pillow" wow... That really got me. The ending I know has some people annoyed but for me it was satisfying and the only real way that everything that followed could be wrapped up. There could never be a happy ending here, but there could be some kind of closure. My only issue? The wig that Jessica Chastain had to wear. They could have done better by her.