Sunday, December 18, 2022

Goodnight Mommy - Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala - 2014


★★★- Yeah, fuuuuckkk this movie. Good or whatever, but extremely disturbing. Not happy I watched it. Cannot recommend.

The film is about a set of twins with a very complex relationship with their mother who had some sort of facial trauma. They live in a large isolated house where their mother seems off. The boys begin to question the mother's identity, believing that she isn't the same person as the one who went into the hospital. They begin to question if she is their real mother, and then, where their real is if this is in fact not the woman they know.

Slow burn leads to a horrific ending. The audience, like the boys, are never sure if this is a stand-in until the end, when the unimaginable answer becomes definitive. I see it has been remade in English with Naomi Watts as the "mother." I don't recommend that either. 

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