Have you been having a good night’s sleep lately? If so, you might want to avoid this trailer for Goodnight Mommy, the new horror film from the writing-directing team of Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz. The film stars Susanne Wuest, Elias Schwarz, and Lukas Schwarz as a mother and her two children, but the children don’t believe that their mother is their mother anymore following a massive surgery.
I think this trailer is masterful in the way it teases a creepy confrontation without divulging too many details as to what is exactly up with the mother. But, yeesh, has that tw0-minute trailer given me the chills.
Goodnight Mommy will play at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals before opening on September 11th, 2015.
The official synopsis for Goodnight Mommy:
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is. What ensues is a terrifying struggle with fatal consequences on par with THE SHINING and DEAD RINGERS.
