6:45 P.M. (Cinemax) MAMA (2013) In this modern fairy tale directed by Andy Muschietti, the uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) of two feral sisters (Megan Charpentier, above, and Isabelle Nélisse), abandoned by their father in the woods, moves them into a home with his goth girlfriend (Jessica Chastain). Then a grotesque figure the girls call Mama appears in the shadows and begins to wreak havoc on their lives. But is the monster simply a coping mechanism for dealing with tragedy? Or is Mama the essence of the girls’ dead mother? “Instead of delivering buckets of guts and gore, this ghost story offers a strong sense of time and place, along with the kind of niceties that don’t often figure into horror flicks, notably pictorial beauty, an atmosphere throbbing with dread and actors so good that you don’t want anyone to take an ax to them,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times. And while the director Guillermo del Toro, “the reigning godfather of motion picture horror,” is only an executive producer on the film, she wrote, “it fits with the more successful movies he’s signed on to. Mr. del Toro understands that nothing says terror like a home that’s become a rattling cage.”
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