“Mama” breaks a lot of horror movie rules, right off the proverbial bat. It gives us a long back-story opening, and brings up much more back story as the tale progresses. It overexplain ...

Cross one of my goals off my New Year's resolutions list, because "Mama" is actually pretty good. I'm not going to say "Mama" is the heir apparent to "The Exorcist" or anything like that, but you ...

By Todd McCarthy A playful, elegantly made little horror film, Mama teasingly sustains a game of hide-and-seek as it tantalizes the audience with fleeting apparitions of the title character while ...

"Mama" might not be the mother of all horror movies, but it certainly shares some genetic code with nearly every big-screen creep-out ever made. Pick a horror cliche, any horror cliche -- creepy ...

As she warms, slowly, to the beast-children, Chastain gets to play an arc, not an archetype, and Mama becomes an honest-to-god film instead of a quickie horror cash-in or a bone-dry drama that ...