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- 2019
- Tate Taylor
- 99 mins
- 15
Summary
A lonely woman allows a group of teenagers to throw a party in her basement, provided they follow some simple rules - one of which is to always call her 'Ma'. Over the course of the night, their kindly host shows a far more sinster side to her nature - and her young guests find themselves trapped in a nightmare. Horror, starring Octavia Spencer and Juliette Lewis
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A star rating of 3 out of 5.
Alan Jones
It's formulaic and lazily constructed, but this psycho-thriller is given a much-needed lift by its star (and executive producer) Octavia Spencer. She plays a veterinary assistant traumatised by events in her teenage years, who befriends a bunch of high-school kids and allows them to use the basement in her remote country house for booze-fuelled parties. However, Spencer has her own agenda, and a murderous revenge plan takes shape. There are more laughs - unintentional or otherwise - than scares in the shaky proceedings, which build towards a suitably nasty pay-off involving Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Ma is a slick enough package from Blumhouse Productions (Get Out, Us), with Spencer's sudden lethal mood-swings generating the chills more than director Tate Taylor's awkward tonal shifts in atmosphere. Spencer previously won an Oscar for Taylor's The Help and it's another co-star from that movie, Allison Janney, who steals every scene here as her doomed boss.
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Cast
rolenameSue AnnOctavia SpencerMaggieDiana SilversEricaJuliette LewisHaleyMcKaley MillerStuDominic BurgessBenLuke EvansMercedesMissi PyleDoctor BrooksAllison Janney
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rolenameDirectorTate Taylor
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Theatrical distributor
Universal
Released on
2019-05-31
Languages
English | Spanish
Guidance
Violence, swearing, drug abuse
Formats
Colour
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