Goodnight Mommy review: The decade’s best horror film gets the worst remake

It may be unfair to compare the remake to the original film, but it is also inevitable for those who love the film. It is said that a refusal and an English remake would open the film to a wider audience, but it is also true that a certain portion of the remake’s audience consists of fans who want to see the film. Won or lost on his second translation to the screen.

While remakes often lose something in the update process, horror movies seem to suffer more than most. put in the correctA competent American remake of let inBut the reason one works so well just draws attention to the failure of the other remakes. let in It draws as much from John Ivide Lindqvist’s source novel as it got from the original Swedish film. Keeping the mood and tension of the original, Batman When clover field Director Matt Reeves didn’t mean to pay tribute either put in the correctHis films aren’t as rock solid as the imported tales, but let in It’s a worthy horror movie in its own right.

But sometimes remakes fail spectacularly.At the extreme end of the spectrum is a new poster child for How Not to Remake Movies: The American Version good night mom.

original austrian horror movie good night mom The 2015 release comes after a long harbinger of festivals around the world. The first-ever narrative from writer-director Severin Fiara and Veronica Franz, his feature is a brazenly unflinching horror flick coming from a country unknown to the horror industry. Austrian cinematic landscapes are not entirely free of the dark side of cinema, but are more firmly known for their comedies and historical dramas. good night mom It has left horror fans stunned by its origins, but also by its extremes. good night mom We pushed those ideas far beyond the norm. Suffice it to say that the movie is easily spoiled (like a remake), but its kids are creepy enough and the ending so dark that even jaded horror enthusiasts would cringe.

When the English remake was announced good night momthe biggest looming question was whether the new film would end up as hard and nihilistic as the original. It doesn’t really work as a movie in and of itself.

The new version stars Naomi Watts as the famous mom. ring When funny game Under her belt, Watts might have seemed like an easy choice for the lead in yet another American reboot of the international horror hit. It is not due to The only problem is the script and direction.

Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti play twins Elias and Lucas. The pair had just been dropped off at their mother’s farm in Connecticut after apparently breaking up with their father. The two boys seem playful and a little cautious until they meet their mother for the first time on this visit. Both of them are confused at first, but when they see her trying to put themselves back together, they both loosen up a bit and settle into their new family structure. That first night, after the boys are pushed into a bunk bed, they talk to their mother about the fact that something is wrong.

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at this moment, good night mom Drop the ball completely and never pick it up again. Not only does the movie show the card on Mother’s creep factor almost an hour earlier than the original, but the fact that these boys keep the tension and ambiguity down throughout the movie and constantly talking the movie up. Established.this take good night mom It relies heavily on expositions. Director Matt Sobel (Netflix Director and Producer) fresh cherry flavor) makes little to no attempt to establish atmosphere, tension, or any kind of terrifying ambiguity. is. There is no sense of dread in this horror movie. Because these silly kids don’t shut up, they just let the audience experience the silent horror of living with potential monsters.

Add to all of this the fact that these boys aren’t weird. (Stanley Kubrick’s Shining.) But the Sobel remake was scripted by Kyle Warren (Fox writer and producer). lethal weapon TV series) completely ignores the character development of Elias and Lucas. The original version of these twins kept cockroaches as pets, crafted weird masks, and sent tingles down viewers’ spines with their unspoken communication. At least a normal kid, if not overly verbose.

Heaped on top of that are a myriad of disappointing or confusing factors that span the entire film. Strange and misguided sexual moments of a mother grooming herself in the mirror while Elias spying on her, outbursts of anger that don’t match the character or situation from both the mother and the children, and where There are even some cheesy jump scares that don’t get through. It is assumed that there is

2014 good night mom One of the best horror movies of the last decade, but nearly every factor that contributed to its quality is ignored or reversed in this remake disappointment. This is a failure. The original version is streaming for free on his Vudu, TubiEven in the same price range, the new version is not worth looking at.

good night mom It debuted on Prime Video on September 16th.