Good Madam

Name: Good Madam
Genre: Horror
Released: July 14, 2022
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Babalwa Baartman, Chris Gxalaba, Chumisa Cosa, Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya, Khanyiso Kenqa

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Shudder | Release Date (Streaming): July 14, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Babalwa Baartman, Chris Gxalaba, Chumisa Cosa, Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya, Khanyiso Kenqa, Nosipho Mtebe, Peggy Tunyiswa, Sanda Shandu, Siya Sikawuti, Sizwe Ginger Lubengu

Summary: Tsidi, a single mother, is forced to move in with her estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white Madam in an affluent Cape Town suburb. As Tsidi tries to heal her family, a sinister specter begins to stir.

Director: Jenna Cato Bass

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Slashfilm Cass Clarke

Jul 19, 2022

Good Madam takes its time to linger on subtle and chilling notes before unveiling its fantastic finish. The only drawback to the film is it hints at more supernatural events than we ever see play out on-screen. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Jul 15, 2022

A quiet, tightly wound horror film, Bass’ fourth and most briskly accomplished feature might flirt with the supernatural, but finds terror aplenty in social dynamics that, to many a South African, are perfectly ordinary. Read full review

Nikki Baughan

Jul 15, 2022

The film expertly blends satirical social commentary and disturbing horror tropes to shine a light on the appalling racial and economic divides that still shape the country 30 years after the end of apartheid. Read full review

Matt Donato

Jul 12, 2022

There’s nothing exceptionally freaky outside one or two practical effects of bodily implications, and yet Good Madam still finds nationally significant ways to summon societal fears. Read full review

Noel Murray

Jul 15, 2022

The movie doesn’t shy away from magic spells and arcane African blood rituals, but the real dark mojo that Bass is bringing so starkly to the big screen involves the cycles and privilege and exclusion that seems to persist through every attempt at exorcism. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 28, 2022

The story has hints of Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of horror about it, and is clever enough to be well worth a look, no matter how many credited screenwriters it took to come up with it and polish into the production screenplay. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Jul 14, 2022

What I saw was a racially suspect disaster and another exploitation of Black pain for cheap, lazy thrills. Good Madam is a bad movie. Read full review

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