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"&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;You know something is up when what looks like a cheapie fright flick is produced by Guillermo Del Toro (&lt;a href=\"../../movies/reviews/pans-labyrinth-20061229\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pan&amp;#x2019;s Labyrinth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and boasts an Oscar-nominated actress in Jessica Chastain (&lt;a href=\"../../movies/reviews/zero-dark-thirty-20121218\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zero Dark Thirty&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;em&gt;Mama&lt;/em&gt; doesn&amp;#x2019;t live up to their potential, but the film knows how to creep you out. Two sisters, Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle N&amp;#xE9;lisse), considered dead for five years, are found in the wilderness. The feral girls are taken in by their uncle Lucas (&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#x2019; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his raven-haired girlfriend, Annabel (Chastain), who try to solve the mystery of how they survived and why they still seem to be haunted by a menacing ghost they call &amp;#x201C;Mama.&amp;#x201D; Time now for me to shut up. To get a taste of the film&amp;#x2019;s eerie essence, check out the acclaimed short of the same title (&lt;a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=WRqS6pBC42w\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;it&amp;#x2019;s on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;) that director Andr&amp;#xE9;s Muschietti and his producer sister, Barbara, crafted in 2008. The feature-length &lt;em&gt;Mama&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#x2013; which Neil Cross (&lt;em&gt;Luther&lt;/em&gt;) wrote with the Muschiettis &amp;#x2013; can&amp;#x2019;t hide its stretch marks. But Chastain digs deep, going beyond the call of scream-queen duty to find the passion that gives horror a pulse.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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