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Umma (2022)

PG-1303/18/2022Horror, Mystery1h 23m

A mother's love never dies

Overview

Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Sandra Oh

    Amanda

  2. Cast 1

    Fivel Stewart

    Chris

  3. Cast 1

    Dermot Mulroney

    Danny

  4. Cast 1

    Odeya Rush

    River

  5. Cast 1

    MeeWha Alana Lee

    Umma

  6. Cast 1

    Tom Yi

    Mr. Kang

This shares many problems that I hear people calling out IT COMES AT NIGHT for having. It doesn't flesh out its themes substantially, lacks scene-to-scene momentum and overall narrative drive, unprompted horror sequences with no apparent purpose, etc. I think this just needed a more concrete plot and more scenes with the central duo actually interacting (COVID-19 restrictions maybe caused a lack of this?). It is disappointing and a bit of a slog, but not without some good vision behind it. Some of the horror sequences utilize imagery and blocking in a pretty great way, and the scenes centered ...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$3,000,000.00

Revenue $2,100,000.00

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