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Sep 16, 2022 · A moderately insightful critic, full-on Swiftie and all-around bon vivant, Peter Sobczynski, in addition to his work at this site, is also a contributor to The Spool and can be heard weekly discussing new Blu-Ray releases on the Movie Madness podcast on the Now Playing network.
Sep 11, 2015 · Dark, violent, and drenched in dread, Goodnight Mommy is perfect for extreme horror enthusiasts -- or filmgoers who prefer to watch between splayed fingers. Read Critics Reviews
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Sep 14, 2022 · 37% Tomatometer 68 Reviews 35% Audience Score 100+ Ratings When twin brothers (Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti) arrive at their mother's (Naomi Watts) country home to discover her face covered in...
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Sep 15, 2022 · ‘Goodnight Mommy’ Review: Behind the Mask. Twin boys worry that their mother might be an impostor in this disappointing remake. Share full article. From left, Nicholas Crovetti, Naomi Watts...
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By Matt Donato
Updated: Sep 16, 2022 8:02 pm
Posted: Sep 16, 2022 2:30 pm
Goodnight Mommy debuts on Prime Video on Sept. 16, 2022.
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s Goodnight Mommy (2014) smashes through your ribcage, tears out your heart, and watches with glee as you writhe — a decade-defining bounty of scorching bleakness. Matt Sobel’s new American remake abandons all the skin-crawling imagery and punishing violence to differentiate itself, not replicate. As Sobel himself says in press materials: “We saw the opportunity to do something quite common in theater but unusual in cinema: to adhere roughly to the original plot but reframe it in a way that completely changes its meaning — and perhaps even its genre.” In other words, ditch the vicious playtime horror angle Franz and Fiala use to torment spellbound viewers. Sobel aims for something more traditionally dramatic, stripping Goodnight Mommy of everything audiences praise about the Austrian original.
Brothers Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti respectively portray knee-high siblings Elias and Lucas. Naomi Watts stars as “Mommy,” in recovery after facial reconstruction surgery that requires a white netted bandage to cover her head. Goodnight Mommy is told from the children’s perspective as they notice quirks in Mommy that suggest she’s been replaced by a doppelgänger — Watts is comfortably alien in her skin, stoking the children’s imagination. The Crovettis feed off adolescent curiosity that drives suspicious boys away from their supposed blood mother. Their visitation quickly morphs from a joyful reunion (mom and dad separated) to body-swap imprisonment as perceived by undeveloped minds.
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Goodnight Mommy might be passable as a standalone, but it’s impossible to recommend over the original. Matt Sobel and Kyle Warren venture somewhere new that still doesn’t differentiate nearly enough for its quieter approach. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s original Goodnight Mommy nestles amongst my nightmares — Sobel’s iteration acid-washes a...
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Sep 16, 2022 · Amazon Video’s reboot of the Austrian shocker Goodnight Mommy ignores or reverses everything that made the original one of the all-time best horror movies. Starring Naomi Watts.
Ripped straight from the pages of your therapist's notebook, Goodnight Mommy is a thoroughly terrifying fairy tale with a killer twist. Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 17, 2019
