MOVIE REVIEW: Goodnight Mommy

 

Twin boys come to visit their mother after she has apparently had plastic surgery. With a face covered in bandages, she presents the boys with a less than accurate image of the mother they used to know. However, her behavior is even more striking, and when they discover that her eye color has somehow changed, the boys become convinced that the woman in the bandages is not really their mother, but a mysterious impostor. The boys then have to decide if they are simply going to run, or if they are going to try to find out what happened to their real mother.

This film is actually the remake of an Austrian film of the same name. Starring Naomi Watts as the mother and the real-life twin brothers Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti as the twin boys, it is a tension filled romp through mystery, thrills, and fantasy to a stunning conclusion. There is some violence, including a scene of the mother subjecting one of the boys to a form of abuse, but hardly any strong language and no nudity. Sedate, but worth the time.