Let's be realistic.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

An investment banker Jeffrey (Nikolaj Coaster- Waldau) has a breakdown and kills his wife and two colleagues. He takes his two infant daughters to a cabin in the woods and plans to kill them but they are saved by some entity that protects the girls and raises them. They call her Mama.For five years the girls' uncle, Lucas (also Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) has led a search for the girls and they are found in the cabin. Lucas faces a custody battle with the girl's grandmother but a doctor and a medical institute come to his assistance. Lucas raises them with his rock singer girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain.) When Lucas is hospitalised after an accident, Annabel reluctantly looks after the kids but Mama has been visiting the girls.The film is produced by Guillermo Del Toro and has elements of a dark twisted gothic fairy tale where things certainly go bump in the night. It is dark and creepy but by the end a little too dark as you cannot see what is going on. It probably is deliberate as the film literally falls of a cliff to a messy and stupid ending.

The Kids are superb. They look extremely cute and give out exemplary performances. Jessica Chastain looks hot and acts well. The special effects are fabolous. The back story and the jump scares are flawless. It is a very well made horror film with a heart

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

Spoilers: This is my take on the entire movie. #1 it was not a horror story, but a love story between a mother and child.This was a wonderful love story about a woman who is declared nuts in the 1870's and has her child taken from her. She returns and kidnaps the child from the authorities and is chased by a pitchfork and torch wielding mob over a cliff. Which is where her haunting begins. The townsfolk, in their evil nefariousness decide to box the baby up and stick it on a shelf for 140 or so years, causing the spirit of the mother not to rest until it is reunited with the child. On the way to the reunion, she discovers the love for another child which she has raised for six years. The father of this child is a homicidal maniac, and is killed when he decides to trespass on Mama's property. Castle Law - bitches! I can't blame the ghost for killing this psychopath, I mean, really, he was unhinged. Well, after raising the two girls for half a dozen years, the uncle's hirelings eventually find them and bring them "home" where a self-centered shrink decides to use them for his own experiments under the guise of "helping them." Of course this user is only interested in his own ends, and really doesn't care much about the girls. He discovers the remains of Mama's baby and doesn't even tell anyone about it. The Rock Band hot chick is forced to be "mom" to the two girls by a combination of guilt and shame, as well as association to the uncle. Meanwhile the aunt is trying to get custody, and eventually "dirt" on the "mom" so she can steal the girls away from the uncle. What a jerk. She decides that criminal trespass is a good idea, and CASTLE LAW! - Bitches! she is killed by Mama. So far the ghost hasn't done anything unlawful or necessarily even bad. Well, skip to the (near) end where she's trying to get the two young girls to walk over a cliff (because, apparently that's her thing, though she really hasn't been shown to have ever done it before, save her own child when escaping the wild townies mob in the 1800's). The "mom" brings her real daughters bones back to her and she is almost satisfied, until the youngest daughter cries out for her - she's the only mama she's ever known, after all. Well, this sets the ghost off, and the uncle and "mom" are put in peril. But through pure will force, the "mom" saves the older daughter while allowing the ghost to take the younger over the cliff with her (repeating history and destroying the ghost spirit). All in all, a great friendly ghost love story. Enjoy!