What kind of mother parties with Highschoolers? (Ma 2019)

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Ma

5/10

I have seen Octavia Spencer in a number of movies and each one, she seems to be a strong black woman so to see her in a horror as the main protagonist is a weird step to take. Weird but intriguing. The trailer was pretty self-explanatory with this one as we see Spencer play a weird woman, getting in with a group of youngsters as at first, she buys the liquor at the store and then gives them a basement to party in. Is this going to be a party we all want in on?
I think I'll end up finding an excuse not to go to this party again. It was an interesting concept for a movie by all means. The creepiness of the storyline and main character on which it was centered around was clever but I was left wondering as to whether this was an actual comedy or not. The only real character to look at is the one who wanted to be called 'Ma'. Spencer plays Sue Ann and from flashbacks galore, we find out about her history and how she was bullied in school by local kids and after becoming a lonely mother to an ill child, she quickly finds acceptance by helping out some kids that are her daughter's age.

After a couple of parties in her basement, she becomes way too attached to the group, turning up at their school, calling them constantly and the fixation takes a turn as she drugs them at one of her final parties. After a little torturing, a murder to one of the fathers and the kids escaping to freedom and Ma trying to through her own daughter into the flames that have started since the escape, the end is near. Ma walks upstairs as the house burns around her, accepting her fate and lying down next to the man she has killed. This guy is one of the fathers, a bully from her past and is played by one of only a few faces I recognise in Luke Evans. If any sort of an underlining tone, you never know what is really going on with someone. The bullying would have caused this effect and all she was after was some sort of revenge, no matter the cost to herself or her daughter.
The rest of the cast was what we usually see within a horror of this magnitude, or lack of it. Another group of young actors and actresses that we will never see again, probably have never seen before or will most likely see within this genre once more, without them being a blockbuster. To be fair, that's probably just me being a pessimist.

As I had already mentioned, a few points in the movie, I actually had a little giggle and I'm not too sure if this was ever going to be intentional from its creators. Blumhouse as producers can we very ranging with horrors, between Get Out and Happy Death Day being two examples of how little and how much comedy there seems to be in the movies. The film seemed to be a lot more of a thriller than a horror. I really need a gruesome horror with a monster or paranormal activity to get my blood going. I wasn't too impressed with this one and it was simply a filler movie than I may never watch again. It makes me feel like the target audience would be some young teens and anyone past that age would know a little better. Firstly to maybe enjoy the movie too much and to make better choices than the characters in the movie.