Movie Review: MAMA

MAMA is a ghost story that had so much going for it but ended up bombing at the end. After Jeffery kills his wife, he takes his two young daughters, Victoria & Lilly to an old abandoned cabin deep into the woods. He plans to kill his daughters along with himself. Right when he goes to do that, a ghost of a woman who has been searching for her long lost baby comes in and kills the dad, saving the girls.

For the next five years the ghost raises the girls and feeds them with cherries. The ghost is known as MAMA to the girls. During those five years, Lucas who is Jeffery's brother has been searching for his nieces. The private investigator that Lucas hired to search for his nieces finally found them all alone in the cabin. How alone were they?

The girls were taken to a Child Psychologist Clinic. Lucas introduces himself to the girls and tells them that he is their uncle. The girls movie into their uncle's house which is where they meet their Aunt Annabel. Once they get settled in, strange things begin to happen. We find out exactly who MAMA is.

Back in the like the 1800's, a woman captures her baby while killing a nun. She starts running through the woods, trying to escape the guards that were after her. She got trapped with no way out unless she decides to jump off the cliff. Which is what she actually did. She falls into the water, dying and her baby that was swaddled in a blanket gets caught on a tree branch and survives.

MAMA never knew that so she's been searching for her baby ever since her death. Annabel tries to reach out to her nieces but has a problem with it since she's too bad ass for that. She finally makes a connection with Victoria but not Lilly since she's more in touch with MAMA. Once MAMA finds out that the girls were getting close with their Aunt & Uncle she gets jealous and kidnaps the girls and takes them to the cliff where she died.

Lucas finds where MAMA's baby is and heads out to the cliff with Annabel. They try giving MAMA her baby in hopes that she will let the girls go. She won't let them go since she needs to right the wrong that she did. Annabel continues to hold on to Victoria and not let her go. Victoria tells Lilly that she's going to stay. Lilly and MAMA fall off the cliff and once they hit the branch that MAMA's baby got caught on, they turn to butterflies.

Lilly dies with MAMA and gets reincarnated into a butterfly. I have to say that the ending was horrible. I didn't like how they killed off Lilly, the cute one out of the two. If they would of let them all live or Annabel sacrifices herself to let her nieces live with their uncle then that would of been so much better. Really? The cute little girl had to die and get reincarnated into a butterfly? Not happy. Not happy at all.

This movie was actually a very good ghost story. It had a great concept, the back story was amazing, the acting from the little girls were outstanding. The ghost was pretty creepy and had everyone in the theatre, except for me, jumping and screaming. ;) It's really sad how an ending can ruin the whole entire movie. It started out strong then fizzled out towards the ending then it blew up. The jump scares were also really good. It got the whole theatre anxious and excited.

I know this was a horror/thriller but you don't mess with little children. Unless it's Children of the Corn, cause that's a totally different story. ;) I give this movie 4 out of 5 Skulls.