Lukas and Elias are pitted against whoever has assumed the role of their mother, but it’s simply three humans caught in a back-and-forth power struggle. There’s no monster or horror villain lurking in the shadows.
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Goodnight Mommy is not a movie to be taken COMPLETELY serious, but its greatest victory is generating fear through human traits. But when she starts displaying unusually aggressive tendencies, Lukas and Elias are convinced that someone has stolen the identity of their dearest mommy, and they’ll stop at nothing to find out why. When she returns home, the boys are shocked to see a bandaged figure (who looks somewhat like a female mummy) claiming to be their mother. Lukas and Elias Schwarz play two brothers named Lukas and Elias (easy enough), who eagerly await the return of their game-show hostess mother (Susanne Wuest) from the hospital. Is the young duo’s conclusion far-fetched and overblown? Of course – but those chills going up your spine are real. Filmmakers Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz are able to intertwine a psychologically thrilling tale of familial terror with bewildered curiosity, as two children struggle to accept their mother’s new post-surgical appearance. At their age, with over-active minds, the brothers dreams up a wild scenario to connect the unforeseen dots in their lives, which turns this horrific suburban nightmare into an eerily human tale as each mysterious clue surfaces. Goodnight Mommy is no Pet Sematary or Who Can Kill A Child?, where children are turned into bloodthirsty murderers who kill without remorse, but it does tiptoe a similar line. So what if children CAN be evil? Or worse, what if they don’t actually know the moral implications of actions that are simply a result of their blurry, juvenile fantasies? We wouldn’t dare imagine children doing the unspeakable, right? Children CAN’T be evil, because we’ve CONVINCED ourselves they can’t be. When you see a child, happy thoughts of doing no wrong immediately pop into your head.
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There’s something so inherently unnerving about a horror movie that relies heavily on children, because kids are supposed to be full of innocence and wonder – the perfect guise for pure, seething evil. To any hopeful parents who are planning on starting a family sooner than later, here’s my warning – don’t watch Goodnight Mommy.
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