Goodnight Mommy

Icily effective.

Beneath it all is the nagging and heartbreaking feeling that these boys have lost their protector. That vulnerability-combined with their isolation, their confusion-can be harder to stomach than some of the more graphic scenes.

Goodnight Mommy is a very disquieting, very suspenseful film, but proceed with caution.

The tension in Goodnight Mommy owes everything to our not knowing who to trust. Things don't always need to come rushing out of the darkness to be frightening.

The tension never lets up.

Here is a horror film that features very little screaming, except from the theater audience.

With minimal resources, writer/directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz have crafted an insidious chiller, drawing measured performances from real-life twins Lukas and Elias Schwarz.

Goodnight Mommy is brilliantly unnerving from the outset with a final act that's a twisted little treat.

It is, at times, very exciting and tense. It is also very clichéd.

Goodnight Mommy employs similar psychological tactics found in film noir and the gothic by arousing the same cultural moods of paranoia and mistrust, which have resulted from a disruption to a seemingly, civilized ideal.

A movie that fans of the genre can't miss. [Full review in Spanish]

A great horror exercise filled with intrigue, suspense and a small touch of dark humor. [Full review in Spanish]