Mama (2013 film)

Mama
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAndy Muschietti
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Andy Muschietti
  • Barbara Muschietti
Based onMamá
by Andy Muschietti
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAntonio Riestra
Edited byMichele Conroy
Music byFernando Velázquez
Production
companies
  • Toma 78
  • De Milo Productions
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 18 January 2013 (2013-01-18) (United States and Canada)
  • 8 February 2013 (2013-02-08) (Spain)
Running time
100 minutes[2]
Countries
  • Canada
  • Spain
  • Mexico
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15 million[3][4]
Box office$148.1 million[5]

Mama is a 2013 supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Andy Muschietti in his directorial debut and based on his 2008 Argentine short film Mamá. The film stars Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse, Daniel Kash, and Javier Botet as the title character.

The film follows two young girls abandoned in a forest cabin, fostered by an unknown entity that they fondly call "Mama", which eventually follows them to their new suburban home led by two adults after their uncle retrieves them.

It was produced by J. Miles Dale and co-written by Barbara Muschietti, with Guillermo del Toro serving as executive producer. The film was theatrically released on 18 January 2013, by Universal Pictures. Mama received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success, grossing $148 million against a $15 million budget.[6]

Plot

Distraught after losing his fortune in the 2008 financial crisis, stockbroker Jeffrey Desange murders his colleagues and his estranged wife before taking his young daughters, 3-year-old Victoria and 1-year-old Lily, away. Driving dangerously fast on a snowy road, Jeffrey gets into a car crash, breaking Victoria's glasses. Surviving the collision, he takes the children to an abandoned cabin. Planning to kill his daughters and then himself, he prepares to shoot Victoria but is killed by a shadowy figure.

Five years later, a rescue party, sponsored by Jeffrey's identical twin brother Lucas, finds a now 8-year-old Victoria and 6-year-old Lily in the cabin, alive but in a feral state after years of isolation. The girls are put in a welfare clinic under Dr. Gerald Dreyfuss. They refer to "Mama," a mysterious maternal protector figure. The girls are initially hostile to Lucas but Victoria recognizes him after he gives her a pair of glasses and she can see properly. Victoria acclimates quickly to domestic life while Lily retains much of her feral behavior.

Lucas is attacked by a mysterious entity and put into a coma, leaving Lucas's girlfriend Annabel to care for the girls alone. She makes progress with Victoria but Lily remains hostile. Alarmed by nightmares of a strange woman and Victoria's warning about Mama, Annabel asks Dreyfuss to investigate. Dreyfuss’s research brings to light the story of Edith Brennan, a mentally ill asylum patient who died in the 1800s; he recovers a box from a government warehouse containing a baby's remains.

Annabel has a dream revealing Edith's past; when Edith was sent to the asylum, her child was given to nuns. She escaped and took her baby back, stabbing a nun. Fleeing her pursuers, she jumped off a cliff, but before hitting the water below, she and the child made an impact with a large branch. Edith drowned, but the child's corpse snagged on the branch and did not fall with her. Annabel realizes that Edith hadn't realized her child was caught on the tree and doesn't understand why her baby wasn't in the water with her. Edith's troubled ghost, Mama, searched the woods for her child for years until she discovered Victoria and Lily and took them as surrogates.

Lucas regains consciousness after a vision of his dead twin tells him to save his daughters. Victoria's growing closeness to Annabel makes her less willing to play with Mama, unlike Lily. Dreyfuss visits the cabin and is killed by Mama, who then attacks Annabel and the girls. She also kills their maternal great-aunt Jean and uses her body to spirit the children away. Annabel and Lucas find the children on the same cliff where Mama leaped with her infant.

Annabel, who found Dreyfuss' box of the child's remains, offers them to Mama. Mama recognizes her lost baby and her appearance briefly turns human. However, Lily calls out for Mama, causing her to revert to her monstrous form and attempt to take the girls. Victoria asks to stay with Annabel instead of leaving with Mama. Mama accepts and she and Lily plummet off the cliff. Mama and Lily are briefly shown as spirits happy to be united before hitting the branch and turning into a shower of moths. Annabel and Lucas embrace Victoria, who notices a moth landing on her hand, suggesting that Lily is still with her in spirit.

Cast

Production

The film began production in Pinewood Toronto Studios on 3 October 2011. Production ended on 9 December 2011.[citation needed] Parts of the film were also shot in Quebec City, Quebec. Although the film was produced in Canada, it is set in Clifton Forge, Virginia. Much of the Mama character was filmed practically. To create the unnaturally jerky movements, Javier Botet was hung from a wire rig and his limbs were tugged at random times. Even heavily CGI-augmented scenes stitched different elements of Botet's performance.[7]

The film was initially scheduled for release in October 2012, but was later rescheduled for January[8] to avoid competing with Paranormal Activity 4. Its success at that later date has, among with other dump months horror films, convinced studios to start opening horror movies year-round.[9]

Reception

Critical reception

Mama received mixed reviews from critics. It holds a 63% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews, with an average rating of 5.90/10. The website's critical consensus states: "If you're into old school scares over cheap gore, you'll be able to get over Mama's confusing script and contrived plot devices."[10] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[11]

Richard Roeper, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, enjoyed the film, giving it three stars out of four and saying, "Movies like Mama are thrill rides. We go to be scared and then laugh, scared and then laugh, scared and then shocked. Of course, there's almost always a little plot left over for a sequel. It's a ride I'd take again."[12] Owen Gleiberman, reviewing for Entertainment Weekly, gave the movie a B and said, "Mama lifts almost every one of its fear-factor visuals from earlier films: the rotting black passageways that spread like mold over the walls (very Ringu meets Repulsion); the fire in her eyes; the crouched figures that skitter and pounce à la the infamous 'spider' outtake from the original Exorcist; the way that Mama, with her arms like smoky-shadowy bent tendrils, evokes both the monster from the Alien films and also, in a funny way, the crumpled-puppet gothic mischievousness of Tim Burton animation. Nothing in the movie is quite original, yet Muschietti, expanding his original short,[13] knows how to stage a rip-off with frightening verve. It helps to have an actress on hand as soulful as Jessica Chastain..."[14]

IGN editor Scott Corulla rated the film 7.3 out of 10 and wrote, "This is a fine first film for director Andrés Muschietti and, despite some missteps and disappointments, very well could be a harbinger of interesting things to come for the helmer."[15] The Huffington Post wrote, "With Del Toro's name up front, expect Mama to be the winter horror film of choice in 2013."[16] The Philadelphia Inquirer called the film an "effectively spooky ghost story", adding, "Mama is full of arty tropes – sepia-toned flashbacks, flickering lights, menacing murmurings. The atmosphere is positively spectral. And it's easy to see why del Toro is a champion: Like his Pan's Labyrinth, there's a fairy-tale aspect (the film even begins with the title card "Once upon a time..."), with children in jeopardy, a witchy monster, and edge-of-the-precipice confrontations."[17] Canyon News wrote, "The scares do indeed come a mile a minute and will unnerve even some of the toughest moviegoers."[18] Mick LaSalle of the Houston Chronicle wrote, "Director Andres Muschietti is cinematically literate – in one example he borrows a flashbulb effect from Hitchcock's Rear Window – and he has visual panache. Much of the movie is surprisingly beautiful."[19]

Box office

In the United States, the film earned $28,402,310 on its opening weekend, debuting at #1 and playing at 2,647 theaters.[20] It grossed $148.1 million worldwide and is a commercial success.[21] Additionally, Jessica Chastain, for the second time in her career, claimed the top two spots of the box-office with her starring roles in Mama and Zero Dark Thirty.[22]

Home media

The film grossed $12.5 million in home sales.[23]

Accolades

Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Saturn Awards Best Horror Film Mama Nominated [24]
Young Artist Award Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film Megan Charpentier Nominated [25]
Best Supporting Young Actress in a Feature Film Morgan McGarry Nominated
Best Supporting Young Actress in a Feature Film Isabelle Nelisse Nominated
MTV Movie Award Best Scared-As-Shit Performance Jessica Chastain Nominated [26]
People's Choice Awards Favorite Horror Movie Mama Nominated [27]
Golden Trailer Awards Best Horror Mama Won [28]
Best Motion/Title Graphics Universal Pictures Nominated [29]
Best Horror Poster Universal Pictures Nominated

Future

In February 2013, it was reported that a sequel was in the works.[30] In January 2016, Universal announced that duo Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch would rewrite and direct the sequel.[31] Chastain would not return for the sequel.[32]

See also

References

  1. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (20 February 2013). "Universal to build on Mama success with more co-pros". Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  2. ^ "MAMA (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 29 November 2012. Archived from the original on 7 June 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  3. ^ Fritz, Ben (17 January 2013). "Horror movie 'Mama' to top new Schwarzenegger, Wahlberg films". Los Angeles Times.
  4. ^ "Mama (2013)". Box Office Mojo.
  5. ^ "Mama (2013) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Mooch (2014) | Mooch Tamil Movie | Movie Reviews, Showtimes". Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  7. ^ Olson, Mike (30 January 2013). "Mommy Issues: Making Monsters with Mama Visual Effects Supervisor Aaron Weintraub". Motion Picture Association. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  8. ^ Trumbore, Dave (10 August 2012). "Universal Shuffles OBLIVION, Ron Howard's RUSH and the Guillermo del Toro-Produced Horror Film, MAMA; THE PERKS OF BEING A WALL FLOWER Pushed Back". Collider. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  9. ^ Alexander, Bryan (1 October 2013). "Who killed the Halloween horror movies?". USA Today. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  10. ^ "Mama (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  11. ^ "Mama Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  12. ^ Roeper, Richard (16 January 2013). "Mama". Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago: Sun-Times Media Group. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  13. ^ "Mama - YouTube". YouTube.
  14. ^ Gleiberman, Owen (25 January – 1 February 2013). "Mama". Entertainment Weekly. New York: Time Inc. p. 98.
  15. ^ "Mama Review - IGN". 17 January 2013.
  16. ^ "'Mama' Trailer: Jessica Chastain Stars in Year's Scariest Film? (VIDEO)". HuffPost. 13 September 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  17. ^ Rea, Steven (18 January 2013). "Mama: Every Adoptive Parent's Nightmare". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Media Network.
  18. ^ Anderson, LaDale (17 January 2013). "Mama Is Spine-Tingling Scary". Canyon News. Beverly Hills, California: Glen Kelly.
  19. ^ LaSalle, Mick (18 January 2013). "HORROR – Mama is Disturbingly Entertaining". Houston Chronicle. Houston, Texas: Jack Sweeney. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  20. ^ "Weekend Box Office Results for January 18–20, 2013". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  21. ^ "Mama (2013) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  22. ^ Corliss, Richard (21 January 2013). "The Chastain Perfecta: Mama and Zero Score While Arnold Stands Down". TIME. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  23. ^ "Mama (2013) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  24. ^ Johns, Nikara (26 February 2014). "'Gravity,' 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Lead Saturn Awards Noms". Variety.
  25. ^ "35th Annual Young Artist Awards". Young Artist Awards. Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  26. ^ "2013 MTV Movie Awards". MTV (MTV Networks). Archived from the original on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2016. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
  27. ^ People’s Choice Awards 2014: The winners list
  28. ^ "Golden Trailer Awards 2013". 6 May 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  29. ^ "Golden Trailer 2013". IMDb. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  30. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (20 February 2013). "Universal to build on Mama success with more co-pros". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  31. ^ Kit, Borys (28 January 2016). "'Mama' Sequel in the Works from 'Starry Eyes' Filmmakers (Exclusive)". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  32. ^ Sneider, Jeff (28 January 2016). "Jessica Chastain Not Expected to Return for 'Mama 2' as Sequel Takes Shape". The Wrap. Retrieved 29 January 2016.

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