Now in post-production: Mama, a supernatural thriller produced by Guillermo del Toro that was shot up Toronto last fall with director Andy Muschietti.
Jessica Chastain (Tree of Life), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nelisse star. Things have been awfully quiet on the production, which is being shepherded by Universal, since Shock visited the set, however, a photo from the production surfaced at The Film Experience. It offers a glimpse at Chastain’s new look.
The actress did not have all that much to say about the film in her interview with TFE, however, she assured the site that the story is equal parts horror and drama. The synopsis, if you missed it, goes like this:
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their mother was murdered. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
The day their father killed their mother, sisters Victoria and Lilly vanished near their suburban neighborhood. For five long years, their Uncle Lucas and his girlfriend, Annabel, have been madly searching for them. But when, incredibly, the kids are found alive in a decrepit cabin, the couple wonders if the girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.
As Annabel tries to introduce the children to a normal life, she grows convinced of an evil presence in their house. Are the sisters experiencing traumatic stress, or is a ghost coming to visit them? How did the broken girls survive those years all by themselves? As she answers these disturbing questions, the new mother will find that the whispers she hears at bedtime are coming from the lips of a deadly presence.
If you’ve never seen the short film Mama is based upon, scroll down.
