Synopsis
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
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Cast
- Elias SchwarzElias
- Lukas SchwarzLukas
- Susanne WuestMother
- Hans EscherPriest
- Elfriede SchatzRed Cross Collector #1
- Karl PurkerRed Cross Collector #2
- Georg DeliovskyPizza Supplier
- Christian SteindlMesner
- Christian SchatzFarmer
- Erwin SchmalzbauerAccordion God
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Entertainment Weekly
Goodnight Mommy, a brilliantly sinister horror film in the recent art-house mold of "The Babadook" and "It Follows," has a premise that cracks like the whip of a devil’s tail. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
The story's acceleration from anxiety to panic to hellish chaos is expertly managed, but more impressively, so is the control of internal narrative logic. - 83
The A.V. Club
This elegantly nasty little potboiler should satisfy those brave enough to brave it. They might see the big reveal coming, but that won’t help them unsee the horrors leading up to it. - 80
Variety
Shooting in sleek 35mm, Franz and Fiala have dreamt up a home-invasion scenario where the aggressors lived there all along. - 80
The New York Times
Unspooling with virtually no music and a seriously unsettling sound design, Goodnight Mommy gains significant traction from small moments. - 78
Austin Chronicle
An unnerving descent into the extreme, anxious corners of a mother’s relationship to and comprehension of her 9-year-old twin sons – and vice versa – gone weirdly haywire, Goodnight Mommy is required viewing for both lovers of neo-gothic paranoia and mommy-haters everywhere. - 75
The Playlist
It's a resonant, atmospheric horror film that treats its genre and its audience with unusual respect, before escalating in its last moments to a brilliantly uncompromised finale. - 70
Village Voice
Goodnight Mommy is a well-crafted cheat with a killer punch.