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"Utterly unnerving … you owe it to yourself to see this movie as soon as you can." – Dread Central
A cerebral nerve-strainer that builds from slow burn to unfathomable brutality, Goodnight Mommy starts with twin boys in an isolated house in the country waiting for their mother's return. When she finally comes back, her head wrapped in bandages after plastic surgery, nothing is as it was before. Stern and distant, she shuts the family off from the outside world, which starts the boys thinking this woman is not their mother after all.
Produced by Ulrich Seidl (In the Basement, MIFF 2015; Paradise trilogy, MIFF 2013), the savagely disturbing Goodnight Mommy has the rare ability to thrill fans of both high and lowbrow. Precise and excruciating, it's "a heartbreaking tale of love and loss wrapped in one of the scariest films of the year" (MOMA).
"Rarely has auteur horror been done so atmospherically and with such deft control of tension." – Screen Daily