This unhealthy nightmare on Prime Video is one of the best kept secrets in horror movies of the last decade

It’s almost a decade old, but this ‘Good night mom‘ (also known by its title in English, ‘Goodnight, mommy’, in its long passage through specialized festivals and auteur and cult film platforms such as Filmin) continues to maintain intact its ability to shock and unsettle even the most hardened fan of the horror movie Now comes to Prime Videoand with it, it reaches a wider audience: those who expect a digestive horror story a la Blumhouse are going to be in for a surprise.

This Austrian production tells how two twin brothers wait in the middle of summer for their mother to return home after a plastic surgery operation. When she arrives with her face completely bandaged she looks strange and they hardly recognize her, and her distant personality makes them suspect that they are dealing with an impostor.

This psychological thriller plays with elements of science fiction (plastic surgery for evil ends, perfect replicas), horror (the bandaged woman is absolutely unsettling… and that’s just the beginning), classic suspense (those twins who will make the forewarned viewer raises an eyebrow from the first frame) and even disturbing comedy (the sunny, summery atmosphere is reminiscent of the setting of movies like ‘Canino’). The result is an unpredictable and nightmarish cocktail.

Directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz have remained faithful to the horror genre in their subsequent films, an episode of the sensational collective production ‘A field Guide to Evil’ and the equally sinister exploration of the emotional abysses of childhood ‘The Ominous Cabin’ . A couple of authors obsessed with the most sinister side of families and their creatures that should be followed closely.

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This unhealthy nightmare on Prime Video is one of the best kept secrets in horror movies of the last decade