Goodnight Mommy
Beginning with a gentle lullaby and ending with a tightly packed wallop, [this] is one viscerally chilling, seriously unsettling horror film.
Goodnight Mommy
In the heat of the summer. A lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their mother. It becomes an existential struggle for identity and fundamental trust.
Genre
Drama,
Fantasy,
Horror
Runtime
99
Language
German
Director
Severin Fiala,
Veronika Franz
Cast
Susanne Wuest,
Elias Schwarz
Awards:
Nominee, Venice Horizons Award ~ Best Film, Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Joe McGovern, Entertainment Weekly
Goodnight Mommy, a brilliantly sinister horror film in the recent art-house mold of The Babadook and It Follows, has a premise that cracks like the whip of a devil’s tail. In the countryside of Austria, a TV actress (Susanne Wuest) comes home after a facial procedure—and her 9-year-old twin boys ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 9.18.15 - 10.18.15
NoHo 7 10.09.15 - 10.15.15
Royal 10.16.15 - 10.22.15
Lumiere Music Hall 10.30.15 - 11.12.15
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