Mamas Watching
MAMA'S WATCHING is used with permission from Kino London, Dustin Curtis Murphy. Learn more at https://dcmfilmmaker.com.
Liz is a young mother on her first business trip away since her baby was born. But the trip proves complicated, as her boss Lloyd keeps coming onto Liz, getting more aggressive with each attempt.
His unwanted advances bring up memories of a troubling childhood event, involving a monstrous figure called Mama, which took vengeance on an attacker when she was a kid. Now Liz must reckon with the trauma of her past, as well as the monster that has haunted her all her life.
Directed by Dustin Curtis Murphy and written by Rose Muirhead, who also stars as Liz, this horror short has the hallmarks of its genre, with pulse-pounding storytelling and an eerie, frightening monster at its core. But it's also a psychological excavation of how parenthood can open up the doors to past issues, and how these can rear themselves again and again until we tackle them head-on. When Liz has an encounter reminiscent of a harrowing one in her past, intense memories and emotions come flooding back, the most frightening of which is a hag-like monster called Mama.
