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Product Description Guillermo del Toro, the Academy Award®-nominated writer of Pan's Labyrinth, presents this supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When the young sisters are found alive in a decrepit cabin, their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones) and his girlfriend (Oscar® nominee Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty) take them in. As they try to introduce the children to a normal life, Annabel (Chastain) begins to wonder if the traumatized girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.Bonus Content:Feature Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Andy Muschietti and Producer/Co-Writer Barbara MuschiettiOriginal Short with Introduction by Guillermo del ToroDeleted Scenes with Optional Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Andy Muschietti and Producer/Co-Writer Barbara MuschiettiThe Birth of Mama desertcart.com When he's not making gargantuan movies about giant robots and/or comic book hell-beasts, Guillermo del Toro as a producer has fostered a movement toward dreamy, fairy-tale horror (The Orphanage, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark), where primally Grimm scenarios reach some unusually bittersweet resolutions. Mama, del Toro's 2013 production, continues this winning storybook streak, driven by a fiercely against-type performance by Jessica Chastain and an impressive number of uneasy frights. (How many times can a little girl ferally scuttling around the edges of the frame be scary? Quite a few, actually.) Beginning with a literal Once Upon a Time, director-cowriter Andrés Muschietti's film concerns a pair of young girls left stranded in a creepy cabin in the woods after a family tragedy. When they are miraculously found intact five years later, they credit their survival to a mysterious mother figure. As their reluctant new riot girl guardian (Chastain) soon discovers, this protective entity has a murderous case of separation anxiety. Muschietti's project (devised with his sister Barbara) had its genesis as a widely YouTubed three-minute short film, and the elongation seams do occasionally show, particularly in the third act, when characters begin appearing for the express purpose of being munched. Still, even if it doesn't all hang together, Mama has no shortage of champion scary moments, expertly designed for maximum freak-out. (An early scene involving a supernatural game of tug of war hits just the right mark between nervous laughter and serious goose bump territory.) After seeing what lurks under Chastain's bed, don't be surprised if you cultivate some serious dust bunnies of your own. --Andrew Wright Review: This is a ghost story. - Mama If you were looking for a bloody slasher with mindless, big breasted teenie boppers running thru the woods, this isn't that movie. I just had to give this movie 5 stars. Why? Good understandable plot, well thought out with enough scarey twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat the entire movie. The 2 little girls are incredible little actors and completely believable. All characters gave great performances. To me there were no villians, but how can you make a movie without a bad guy. And so the ghost is made ugly and scarey and murderous. If you think about the characters, their stories are truly heart-breaking. OK - A woman in an institution a lifetime or more ago, snatches/grabs her infant child from the nurse and makes a break for it. She is chased by big angry men thru the woods to the edge of a cliff. Her choice; let the men take her back to the institution and never see her child again or jump to her and her childs death. She jumps. Move forward to today. A distraught father takes his 2 small daughters, one is little more than a baby, in his car from their home to somewhere up in the mountains. He is speeding down an icey road in a snowstorm. He is driving like a madman. The girls are frightened and crying. The oldest girl begs him to slow down. The car skids, goes over an embankment and crashes into a tree. He grabs the girls, dragging them thru the woods and finds an old abandoned cabin. He is obviously crazy with grief. Crying and distraught, he holds his one child and puts a gun to her head. In the next moment he is savagely attacked by ??? the ghost? Next you see the two little girls sitting on the floor of the cabin. They are alone. Who will ever find them. How will they survive without heat, clothing, water, utilities and food, especially in the long cold winter. Out of the darkness, rolling across the dusty floor comes a cherry. It's a cherry the smallest girl exclaims. -Go forward several years- The girls Uncle had never given up hope of finding the girls. He has spent all his money and has frustated his girlfriend in his obsession to find them. Just has he has spent his last penny the girls are found. They are little more than wild animals, but they are alive. How could this be? In the center of the cabin's main room is a waist high pile of cherry pits. OK, a little far fetched, but stick with me on this one. The Uncle is thrilled they are found and decides to take them to live with him. The girlfriend is a free spirit (plays in a band tattoos and all) and is not thrilled with this. And little do they know, but with the girls comes the ghost. The grieving mother who jumped to her death. Her body was found, but never the child's. She had been searching for her child all those years when the distraught father came to the cabin in that area. When she heard the children crying and pleading and saw that the children were in mortal danger, she stepped in and saved them. She cared for them, played with them, fed them and protected them. You come to understand that her love for the two girls replaced the love and loss of her child she had been searching for for so long. But now others have taken these children from her too. How the rest plays out will keep you guessing. You fear for the children. The adults at first have no clue. When they each do get a clue, the ghost steps in. You never know what is coming next. The children are torn between the real world and the love of "Mama". When you believe all hope is lost. The hero in the movie is the least likely. It is a bitter/sad battle to the very end. And just when you believe it IS the end, IT ISN'T! This is a really good movie. Possibly the only really good "ghost" movie. For that I give it 5 stars. Review: Great Movie! - Great Movie!





| ASIN | B00AIBZLVY |
| Actors | Daniel Kash, Isabelle Nelisse, Jessica Chastain, Megan Charpentier, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau |
| Aspect Ratio | 1.85:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #41,017 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #1,395 in Horror (Movies & TV) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (12,068) |
| Director | Andy Muschietti |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item model number | 26353999 |
| Language | English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1) |
| MPAA rating | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
| Media Format | Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Producers | Barbara Muschietti, Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale |
| Product Dimensions | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.76 ounces |
| Release date | May 7, 2013 |
| Run time | 1 hour and 40 minutes |
| Studio | Universal Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Subtitles: | French, Spanish |
L**K
This is a ghost story.
Mama If you were looking for a bloody slasher with mindless, big breasted teenie boppers running thru the woods, this isn't that movie. I just had to give this movie 5 stars. Why? Good understandable plot, well thought out with enough scarey twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat the entire movie. The 2 little girls are incredible little actors and completely believable. All characters gave great performances. To me there were no villians, but how can you make a movie without a bad guy. And so the ghost is made ugly and scarey and murderous. If you think about the characters, their stories are truly heart-breaking. OK - A woman in an institution a lifetime or more ago, snatches/grabs her infant child from the nurse and makes a break for it. She is chased by big angry men thru the woods to the edge of a cliff. Her choice; let the men take her back to the institution and never see her child again or jump to her and her childs death. She jumps. Move forward to today. A distraught father takes his 2 small daughters, one is little more than a baby, in his car from their home to somewhere up in the mountains. He is speeding down an icey road in a snowstorm. He is driving like a madman. The girls are frightened and crying. The oldest girl begs him to slow down. The car skids, goes over an embankment and crashes into a tree. He grabs the girls, dragging them thru the woods and finds an old abandoned cabin. He is obviously crazy with grief. Crying and distraught, he holds his one child and puts a gun to her head. In the next moment he is savagely attacked by ??? the ghost? Next you see the two little girls sitting on the floor of the cabin. They are alone. Who will ever find them. How will they survive without heat, clothing, water, utilities and food, especially in the long cold winter. Out of the darkness, rolling across the dusty floor comes a cherry. It's a cherry the smallest girl exclaims. -Go forward several years- The girls Uncle had never given up hope of finding the girls. He has spent all his money and has frustated his girlfriend in his obsession to find them. Just has he has spent his last penny the girls are found. They are little more than wild animals, but they are alive. How could this be? In the center of the cabin's main room is a waist high pile of cherry pits. OK, a little far fetched, but stick with me on this one. The Uncle is thrilled they are found and decides to take them to live with him. The girlfriend is a free spirit (plays in a band tattoos and all) and is not thrilled with this. And little do they know, but with the girls comes the ghost. The grieving mother who jumped to her death. Her body was found, but never the child's. She had been searching for her child all those years when the distraught father came to the cabin in that area. When she heard the children crying and pleading and saw that the children were in mortal danger, she stepped in and saved them. She cared for them, played with them, fed them and protected them. You come to understand that her love for the two girls replaced the love and loss of her child she had been searching for for so long. But now others have taken these children from her too. How the rest plays out will keep you guessing. You fear for the children. The adults at first have no clue. When they each do get a clue, the ghost steps in. You never know what is coming next. The children are torn between the real world and the love of "Mama". When you believe all hope is lost. The hero in the movie is the least likely. It is a bitter/sad battle to the very end. And just when you believe it IS the end, IT ISN'T! This is a really good movie. Possibly the only really good "ghost" movie. For that I give it 5 stars.
C**E
Great Movie!
Great Movie!
E**S
Mama... Lily... Victoria
Sometimes it feels like there is nothing new in horror movies -- we just get remakes, sequels, and movies that rely more on gore and nudity than real horror. But sometimes... very occasionally, we get a movie like "Mama." This is the closest we're probably going to get to a "La Llorona: The Movie" -- an eerie, creeping brand of horror that quietly slips behind you instead of leaping out of dark corners with a screech. And it doesn't hurt that the acting is pretty uniformly brilliant in this movie, even if Jessica Chastain's character arc is a bit predictable. After murdering his wife and business partner, a distraught man named Jeffrey (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) escapes to a cabin in the woods with his two very young daughters. He plans to kill them and then himself, but something destroys him before he has a chance. Five years later, the girls are found -- feral and naked, except for wreaths of flowers. Their uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau again) immediately volunteers to care for them, although his girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain) is a little more reluctant. Dr. Dreyfuss (Daniel Kash) supports their custody claim and even gives them a McMansion to live in, as long as he has access to the girls. But something strange is afoot -- nightmares, moths and tales of someone the girls call "Mama." After Lucas takes a near-fatal fall down the stairs, both Annabel and Dreyfuss begin to suspect that "Mama" is not just a coping mechanism, but something that spent years raising the girls in the woods. And she won't let anyone else take care of "her" children. It really annoys me when people insist that "PG-13 horror always sucks!" -- if it's done with atmosphere and skill, it doesn't need an R-rating or a big budget. "Mama" doesn't have a lot of jump scares or grotesque images -- it relies instead on a creeping sense of unease, draped in shadows, fluttering moths, dead leaves and sepia-toned decay. Andres Muschietti has never directed a full-length movie before, but frankly I'm dying to see what he comes up with next. He already has a lot of skill, such as the beautiful scene where we first glimpse Mama in the house -- a single shot of Lily playing with someone, as Victoria and Annabel drift in and out of other rooms. It's a quiet, unmoving shot, but we're left with the growing horror of knowing that SOMETHING unknown is in that room with a little child. And the horror really amps up when we finally DO see Mama. She's a twisted, shadowy creature with scuttling limbs and windblown hair, but she also elicits our pity for her madness and sorrow. She's a classic ghost, and every attack makes perfect sense. It also has some truly excellent acting from, well, EVERYONE. Coster-Waldau is absolutely heartbreaking as a man desperately devoted to his family, and willing to give up everything for his brother's children. Chastain also gives an excellent performance as Annabel, slowly warming up to the children as she slowly becomes aware that something supernatural is creeping into her new suburban life. The one problem: her transition from "rock chick who doesn't want kids" to "loving aunt" never feels quite natural. And Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nélisse... wow. Both of them are absolutely brilliant, which is all the more impressive because they're so young. They give beautifully nuanced performances, especially since they have to act like feral children for awhile. Wow. Like the director, watch these children. "Mama" is the kind of horror movie that deserves to be a classic -- a dark, twisting story that relies entirely on the most classic kind of ghost there is. Definitely a must-see, even for people who aren't a big fan of horror.
C**N
thriller, fantastique et surnaturel sans provoquer la peur. À voir 😉
J**L
Me encantó esta peli. Vale la pena verla. Viene en castellano también.
J**Y
Excelente calidad en servicio.
F**I
Die von Guillermo del Toro produzierte und von Regisseur Andrés Muschietti erzählte Geschichte präsentiert uns einen atmosphärisch dichten Geisterhorror mit Anleihen beim Märchen und dem japanischen Geisterfilm. Ob man das nun als Hommage oder Bilderklau bezeichnet, spielt dabei für mich keine so große Rolle. Wichtig ist, dass „Mama“ durchgehend spannend ist und famose, düstere Bilder bietet. Der Film setzt zwar eher auf einen subtilen Schauer, hat aber auch einige Schockmomente, die einen regelrecht umhauen, obwohl man sie zum Teil erwartet und vorhersehen kann. Der Film hat eine visuelle Kraft, der man sich kaum entziehen kann. Die Figuren sind inklusive aller Nebenrollen mit passenden Darstellern besetzt. Besonders gut fand ich Jessica Chastain. Die hat in ihrer Karriere für ihre guten darstellerischen Leistungen schon zahlreiche Filmpreise bis hin zu einer Oscar-Nominierung erhalten. Glaubhaft stellt sie in „Mama“ Annabel dar, die in der Geschichte eine Entwicklung durchmacht von der von Kindern genervten und im Umgang mit ihnen eher überforderten Rockröhre hin zur Mutterfigur, die am Ende so stark und gefestigt ist, dass sie in dem furiosen Finale des Films bereit ist für die ultimative Auseinandersetzung mit Mama. Überhaupt schlägt der Film schnell die Richtung ein, die auf das Ende hindeutet. Annabels Freund, der Onkel der Mädchen, liegt den halben Film lang im Koma, sodass schnell klar wird, worauf der Film hinausläuft: einen Konkurrenzkampf zweier „Mütter“ um die Kinder. Apropos Kinder: Überragend sind die beiden Mädchen Megan Charpentier (als Victoria) und Isabelle Nélisse (als Lilly). Während des gesamten Films geht von den beiden eine unheimliche Bedrohung aus, was an der Art liegt, wie sie kommunizieren und sich bewegen (besonders die jüngere der Schwestern), aber vor allem daran, dass sie sich immer wieder zu Mama hingezogen fühlen, dem Wesen, das sie großgezogen und ernährt hat. Mama dringt immer öfter in die bürgerliche Familie ein und ist für die Erwachsenen eine tödliche Gefahr, für die Kinder scheinbar nicht. Eine der besten Plansequenzen ist eine Art „Splitscreen“ durch geschickte Mise-en-scene, die zeigt, wie Grusel im Kopf des Betrachters entsteht, ohne irgendetwas Gruseliges im Bild zu präsentieren. Die Kamera zeigt rechts im Bild die Tür zum Kinderzimmer, wo Lilly mit jemandem spielt. Sie zerrt an einer Decke, die von einer anderen Person, die man nicht sehen kann, festgehalten wird. Links im Bild sieht man den Flur, auf dem nacheinander all die Personen entlanggehen, die als Spielpartner von Lilly überhaupt infrage kommen. Wer ist aber dann mit Lilly im Zimmer? Natürlich hat der Film auch kleine Schwächen. Manchmal erzählt er mit der Holzhammermethode, zum Beispiel als sich Annabel am Anfang des Films über das negative Ergebnis eines Schwangerschaftstest freut. Dass Kinder eigentlich so gar nicht in den Lebensentwurf von Annabel (und auch Lucas) passen, kann man auch anders darstellen, und es wird später in der Erzählung sowieso noch deutlich, zum Beispiel in den Sequenzen um den Sorgerechtsstreit. Auch andere Bilder wirken etwas redundant und überstrapaziert (wie das häufige Auftreten von Motten), und das bombastische Finale mit CGI-Unterstützung ist sicher auch nicht jedermanns Sache. Sicher wäre auch zu überlegen gewesen, Mama im letzten Drittel des Films nicht ganz so häufig ins Bild zu nehmen, dadurch verliert sie etwas von ihrem Zauber. Andererseits ist das Design der Figur so klasse, dass man sie auch nicht zu verstecken braucht. Guillermo del Toro war von dem Aussehen des Geistes regelrecht umgehauen, wie er in den Extras zum Film betont. Das wird sicher auch manchem Zuschauer so gehen. Obwohl „Mama“ dramaturgisch aufgebaut ist wie fast jede klassische Geistergeschichte und von flackernden Lampen bis wackelnden Kronleuchtern alles bietet, was die Ghosthorror-Mottenkiste so hergibt, übt er doch eine besondere Faszination auf den Betrachter aus. Das liegt vor allem an der spannenden Geschichte, den famosen Bildern und nicht zuletzt den wirklich überragenden Kinderdarstellern. Und auch der „matriarchale Ansatz“ hat seinen Reiz, wird der Film doch getragen von weiblichen Darstellern. Die Männer sind entweder dumme, in Panik geratene Väter, im Koma oder ohnmächtig auf dem Boden liegende Onkel oder einfältige Psychiater, die nachts in den Wald rennen, obwohl sie gerade die Überzeugung gewonnen haben, dass es sich tatsächlich um einen gefährlichen Geist handeln könnte. Na gut, der Schauspieler hinter Mama ist ein zwei Meter großer dürrer Mann, aber das nur am Rande. Freunde des klassischen Geisterhorrors sollten sich diesen Film auf keinen Fall entgehen lassen.
N**C
Está en Español Latino, la he comprado y espero que me devuelvan el dinero. Pero en general el pack combo está muy bien formado, ojalá viniesen todos los bluray's así (pero en castellano). Una objeción personal es que es muy triste ver como los blurays que salen en España tienen de idiomas hasta el Arameo, pero si lo compras de fuera sólo en inglés, francés, italiano o latino. Muy triste.
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