was considered good enough to be Austria’s official entry into the Oscar Foreign Language Film race that year , and it has since earned a sort of cult status. Apparently that’s a reason there now is an English-language remake with A-list star Naomi Watts in the title role. Whereas the Austrian film went for the jugular, this version has other ideas.
Now she is a total bitch, or at least that is what they, especially Elias, perceive, and it just gets worse to the point they — again, especially Elias — start to question if this person behind the mask is really their mother at all or some sort of imposter. Soon they act on their fears, but the tension between “mother” and boys only increases when she catches them in the barn, a place they shouldbe exploring.
From this point on, it would be hard to call this really a horror film but more squarely a psychological thriller, with the emphasis on theand the “thrills” pretty mild. That appears to be the filmmakers’ intention, anyway, as they claim they loved the premise but wanted to emphasize a much different aspect of how the story is played out. Somewhere in here is a highly interesting concept.
At least, for Watts devotees — and you can count me as one for sure — she is in fine form , but the material lets her down. Lately she has been seen in a lot of streaming or VOD movies that challenge her physically including
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