Mama's Watching

It's really hard to find genuinely scary horror movies that serve a purpose rather than just flooding you with jump-scares. This is where the short film Mama's Watching excels, the story is about a mother who leaves her baby to go on a business trip where she is stuck with a harrassing boss. The encounter awakens memories of a monster from her childhood.

The acting, especially the lead performance by Rose Muirhead is subtle but nuanced. You can almost feel what the character is thinking from the way Rose uses her body language and the way she looks and moves. All that is wondefully done. The lighting was fabulously done as well, changing between light and dark depending on how safe the situation is.

The horror element was really good and it gave me chills but it was honestly the writing that added depth to the horror. It grounded the story in real human trauma, not shying away from showing us that sometimes....we are the monsters we're scared of.

I liked very much this more than well crafted short film. It can be defined as feministic. In some measure, it is it. It can be called remind of fairy tales as root of mature life. Or portrait of protective figure. Or image of sexual abuse comitted by men against women.

But, more important, it is a film who you feel.

For nice cinematography, no doubts, but, more important, for the well defined details.

A film working as interogation and, not ignoring the lsast scene, a film about family, maybe at level of a sort of legacy. Mama can be the well familiar strega or an ancestor or a fairy tale character useful in tough situations. But each clue or way works so well than this film, scene by scene, becomes just special.