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Today I'm gonna show you a 2013 supernatural horror film called, Mama.
Spoilers ahead.
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The movie begins with a police radio broadcasting about a shooting incident that is occurring
at the Desange household.
One snowy morning, Jeffrey the father of Victoria and Lilly shoots his wife and grabs his daughters
to escape.
Jeffrey drives in a fast speed despite the snowy road, soon after the car crashes and
falls to a cliff.
Regardless of the injuries and the bad weather, Jeffrey and his daughters continues to trail
a path towards an old cabin at the woods.
Jeffrey leaves his daughter inside as he creates fire for them, as regret starts to take over
him from killing his wife and running away from the authorities, he points his gun at
his daughter to end their suffering.
He then takes her glasses off.
But the ghost known as “Mama” attacks him and dismembers him, leaving the 2 young
girls behind.
Five years after, Lucas Desange, Jeffrey’s brother hires two hunters to look for his
nieces as he believes that they are still alive.
After some attempt to find the two young girls, they stumble upon the debris of the car crash.
Which the hunters use their dog’s scent of smell to find the missing young girls.
They finally find them at the cabin in the woods.
But to their surprise, the two young girls are acting with feral like traits.
The hunters immediately call Lucas to announce that his nieces are now safe and sound.
Eighty-seven days after, they go to the institute where Victoria and Lily is residing for the
mean time.
In there they meet Doctor Dreyfuss that observes the girls as they show feral like traits.
He explains that the girls are living as feral to survive, after they go missing for five
years.
Doctor Dreyfuss asks Lucas if he can give the glasses to Victoria as she apparently
have a poor eyesight.
His presence alarms Victoria and Lilly as they hide below the beds.
But Lucas asks Victoria to grab the glasses and wear them, which she eventually do, and
thus building the connection between the two as Lucas resembles his Jeffrey.
Later at the hearing for the children’s custody.
Doctor Dreyfuss is explaining that after eighty-seven days of observing the lost children.
They are showing signs of an imaginary mother figure that sing, feed, and help them survive
in the woods for five years, they call it Mama.
The doctor gives emphasis that with proper physical and emotional development, Victoria
and Lily can live a normal life, as he is pertaining to Lucas and Annabel as their guardians.
Another aspiring guardian Ms. Podolski the aunt of Victoria and Lilly explains that she
wants to take custody of them as Lucas have monetary issues and may have problem raising
the children.
After the hearing, Doctor Dreyfuss offers to provide proper shelter and support to Lucas
if he takes the offer.
The doctor is itching to observe Victoria and Lilly as their case is compelling.
Lucas and Annabel accepts as it will provide help to the children.
After reaching an agreement between the three, they leave and sees Ms. Podolski.
She is given the rights to visit the girls once a week as they are still relatives.
The following day, Lucas, and Annabel transfers to their new home.
While Doctor Dreyfuss continues to observe the actions of Victoria and Lilly at the medical
facility.
While being recorded, Victoria shares the story explaining their relationship with the
entity, “Mama”, and what is the backstory of that Mama.
She mentions that Mama shows it to her using dreams.
It is about a lady running away from the hospital carrying her baby, as the authorities are
trying to catch them, she traps herself as she faces a cliff with the river below.
There was no other choice but to jump, as she believes it will save them, but Mama dies
instead leaving her baby at a branch.
After a few days Victoria and Lilly arrives at their new home, the two siblings go around
the house to familiarize with the surroundings.
Later that day, Doctor Dreyfuss remembers the lady that Victoria talks about and investigates
to discover its identity.
He asks the lady in the archives to get reports with the same story of Mama, the lady returns
with some papers but mentions that there are no clear cases of that resembles the story
near the area recently.
But there is one book the contains the record of the St. Gertudes Asylum that is already
close since 1878, in there is a patient Edith Brennan that has the same set up with the
story that Victoria mentions to the doctor.
In evening, Lucas and Annabel is conversing about how the girls need more time to adjust.
They exchange spits at the bedroom but Annabel freaks out as Mama’s silhouette is at their
door watching them.
Lucas looks outside the room and checks the girls if they are harmed.
A female growl at the room but there is no one in their room.
As Lucas is surveying the area to make sure that no one did break into their house, he
carries a hammer, but he is bested by Mama as she scares him leading to Lucas falling
from the second floor.
As Luca experiences a temporary coma, Annabel is the only seen guardian for the kids.
Horrific dreams and visions of Mama occurs to Annabel.
One day, Annabel calls Doctor Dreyfuss to look at the drawings at the wall done by the
kids as it may carry hidden meaning and a doll made of twigs catches his attention as
he may have seen them before.
The doctor then reviews the previous recording of Victoria during his initial testing.
He notices that the doll at the cabin and at home is the same.
The creator of that doll is no other than Mama.
Later that evening, Annabel puts the kids to sleep after eating dinner.
But as she tries to sleep, she hears a sound of a crooked lady playing with the kids at
their room.
She inspects the room but there is no one except the kids, although Victoria warns her
not to open the closet as but mentions that it is nothing.
The following day Annabel suspects that there is a lady that is visiting them in secret.
But the doctor responds by that Victoria is making the crooked lady sounds, as she develops
a dissociative personality disorder as the result of being all alone with her sister
for five years.
Later at the library archives, the doctor returns to collect information about Edith
Brennan, and he is given a small box with the remains of the child of Edith that has
been there for a long time.
At the hospital, Lucas experiences a shock, but he foresees a vision about Jeffrey that
warns him about a potential danger that the kids will face soon.
Jeffrey’s silhouette points at the right side of a bridge.
The doctor and nurse rushes to the room to help him with his shock, but the vision fades
away as he is given cure.
The following day Annabel notices Victoria at a room trying to pry open a bottle of fruits,
but Victoria warns her again that Mama does not like that they are becoming close with
each other as Mama grows jealous of Annabel.
The doorbell rings, and Ms. Podolski is at the front door as Annabel opens it for her.
Ms. Podolski mentions that it’s her schedule to take care of the kids, but she notices
that there are bruises at the kids, as she thinks that Annabel is hurting the kids.
She is ready to report Annabel for physical abuse and she just needs to take a photo of
the bruises before filing a case.
Later that evening, Doctor Dreyfuss returns with a lead about the identity of Mama.
He shows the picture to Victoria, but she gets mad and shouts, and the doctor retaliates
by shouting while asking if she knows the person in the picture.
But a large black sludge at the wall that releases moths appears at his back, he quickly
leaves as he doesn’t want to see the next creature it will release.
The following day, that the doctor goes to the cabin in the woods to investigate who
Mama is and to know how dangerous that entity is.
Later that night Annabel is sleeping.
Edith shows her visions at her dream about how she killed the nurses from the past.
The flashback shows Edith running from the authorities and the scene where she jumps
at the cliff, leaving her baby stranded at a tree branch as she drowns at the lake.
At the other room, Lilly hears Edith calling her down the window to play.
Lilly wakes up Victoria, but she insists that they stay at the room, but Lilly is stubborn
as she loves Mama so much.
Back at the cabin, the doctor surveys the area as he is finding clues that will give
him information towards Edith.
But the wall is bleeding black sludge as it releases moths.
He hears crooked growls of a female, and his flashlight begins to flicker, and it dies
eventually.
He brings out a camera with a very strong flash, as a light source.
But Edith attacks him as he continuously presses the button to capture the image of Edith.
She grabs him and absorbs his energy and rips his face, and alas the curious doctor is now
dead.
The next morning, Annabel checks on Victoria and Lilly at their room.
But she panics as she notices that Lilly is sleeping outside under the tree.
She rushes outside to get Lilly as it is very cold outside, she picks her up and goes inside
to hug and hold her hands to warm her up.
Lilly eventually throws a tantrum at Annabel, but she notices that Annabel is just helping
her lower her temperature.
Victoria goes down but she is nervous as she knows that Mama will get mad as she is jealous
towards Annabel that shows care to her adoptive kids.
That same morning, Annabel fixes the window so the kids cannot go outside with the use
of the window, as it will hurt them severely.
She tells them to use the stairs next time, especially Lilly.
Victoria makes breakfast for the family and calls Annabel.
She is storing the clothes at the kid’s room as she notices that Lilly is hiding in
a blanket.
But Victoria calls her again to get breakfast as she and Lilly is waiting her to finish.
With confusion, Annabel checks the cabinet to what thing is hiding behind that blanket,
but she only sees a black sludge at the wall but no signs of the blanket.
Victoria asks Annabel to leave the cabinet alone and eat breakfast downstairs.
While eating, Annabel asks Victoria about her session with Doctor Dreyfuss as they both
have talks pertaining to the mama entity, but Victoria is still hesitant to share about
her.
Later, Annabel looks at the remaining files of the doctor at their living room.
The files contain paper works of the recordings of Victoria and the doctor’s interview and
there she sees an old picture of a lady.
She then calls the doctor, and no one is answering.
She decides to visit the office of the doctor as she is concerned and curious to who is
that lady in the photo.
As they arrive at the office, she sneaks and steals a box of the professor containing the
information from the case of Victoria and Lilly.
They leave swiftly and returns home.
At the hospital, Lucas figures that he needs to investigate about his previous vision about
Jeffrey and the path that he is pointing at, he looks at the map and picture as he calls
the car rental to visit Clifton Forge 9 where he pictures Jeffrey and the bridge, to investigate.
Later that night, back at Lucas place.
Annabel uncovers the box and files of the doctor to investigate about Mama and what
the doctor knows.
She opens the laptop and watches the video recording and reviews the files to gather
more information.
In one recording, she hears about Victoria sharing about the story of Edith and how she
lost her baby, and how the baby is found by the authorities before.
She opens another file that shows the other smaller box contains the remains of the dead
baby of Edith.
She then calls Lucas, but he decides not to answer it as he is also investigating a lead
at the Clifton Forge 9.
Annabel starts to cry as she discovers the sad story of Edith and her baby’s death.
Victoria sees her and hugs her to say goodnight and that she loves her.
But as they sleep, Ms. Podolski sneaks inside their home to document the bruises of the
kids to show the judge that the kids are being abused at Lucas’ custody.
But Lilly and Victoria wakes up to check on Annabel as they saw the black sludge at the
closet being active.
They see Mama and she is furious as she grows jealous towards Annabel.
She bites Annabel at the back to slow her down.
And decides to kill the other intruder at home which is Ms. Podolski, Mama shows herself
as a hair to commence a sneak attack and possess the body of Ms. Podolski.
Annabel wakes up after a few minutes, but Mama abducts the kids a while ago before she
even wakes up.
She drives swiftly and carries the remains of Mama’s baby to the Clifton Forge 9’s
cliff, on her way to the cliff she crosses path with Lucas as they are in a hurry to
prevent the Mama from taking the kids away from them.
They arrive at the cabin and as they enter, they notice that Ms. Podolski is already dead.
And as they go out of the cabin, they have a realization that the cliff is just near
the cabin after all.
At the end of the cliff, Annabel and Lucas tries to negotiate with Edith as Annabel know
the sad story of her death.
She shows the dead remains of her baby covered in a cloth, but as Edith is going to jump
at the cliff, Lilly shouts, “MAMA!”
Edith throws the corpse and grabs the kids, Annabel and Lucas retaliates, but Edith is
way too strong for them, Victoria talks with Edith to make an offer, she wants to be with
her if she won’t hurt Annabel and Lucas.
Annabel grabs the end of Victoria’s clothes, but Edith keeps on resisting as Annabel resists
as well.
The movie ends by Annabel showing her love towards the kids, but it is not enough to
fight the bond of Edith and Lilly, as Lilly chooses to be with Edith till the end.
Edith jumps along with Lilly at the lake.
After that event, a crying family of Lucas, Annabel, and Victoria sees a familiar moth
that Victoria calls, “That’s Lilly saying goodbye to us.”