Goodnight Mommy

Name: Goodnight Mommy
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: September 16, 2022
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Cameron Crovetti, Crystal Lucas-Perry, Jeremy Bobb, Naomi Watts, Nicholas Crovetti

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Movie Details & Credits

Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): September 16, 2022 | R

Starring: Cameron Crovetti, Crystal Lucas-Perry, Jeremy Bobb, Naomi Watts, Nicholas Crovetti, Peter Hermann

Movie Facts:

An English-language remake of the 2014 Austrian horror film.

Summary: When twin brothers (Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti) arrive at their mother’s (Naomi Watts) country home to discover her face covered in bandages—the result, she explains, of recent cosmetic surgery—they immediately sense that something doesn’t add up. She sets strange new house rules, smokes in her bathroom, and secretly rips up a drawingWhen twin brothers (Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti) arrive at their mother’s (Naomi Watts) country home to discover her face covered in bandages—the result, she explains, of recent cosmetic surgery—they immediately sense that something doesn’t add up. She sets strange new house rules, smokes in her bathroom, and secretly rips up a drawing they gave her—things their loving mother would never do. As her behavior grows increasingly bizarre and erratic, a horrifying thought takes root in the boys’ minds: The sinking suspicion that the woman beneath the gauze, who’s making their food and sleeping in the next room, isn’t their mother at all. … Expand

Director: Matt Sobel

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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Screen Rant Patrice Witherspoon

Sep 26, 2022

In the end, Goodnight Mommy contains a great balance of intrigue, shock, and entertainment. The film also captures the need for a mother’s love and truly thrives when it settles into the more intricate and intimate part of its storytelling. The cast does an incredible job conveying these underlying themes in addition to leaving enough open for audiences to interpret and figure out on their own. Read full review

IndieWire Christian Zilko

Sep 21, 2022

It’s a film that seemingly aims to be average, but unlike so many other remakes, it actually achieves that goal. Read full review

Jackson Langford

Sep 16, 2022

With gripping performances from the Crovetti brothers to keep us intrigued enough to keep us watching until the end, Goodnight Mommy still manages to unmask some thrills — even if the strength of its source material ties it down. Read full review

Collider Alyse Wax

Sep 15, 2022

It is still a well-made film, with fantastic acting and a beautiful, modern house set out in the middle of nowhere, but it is not the shocker that it was when it was new. Knowing the twist, and the minor changes that were made for an American audience really soften the movie. If you enjoyed the original, the American remake would be perfect fodder for your parents. Read full review

Slashfilm Erin Brady

Sep 17, 2022

Goodnight Mommy isn't a downright horrible movie, but it certainly won't stick with you. Well, maybe the ending will, but that's not a good thing. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Sep 20, 2022

Sobel’s direction feels a little lesser when compared with his leading lady, relying on dream sequences to push us to the edge, never getting anywhere close to the iciness of the original or finding anything distinctive enough to separate the aesthetic of his take. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Sep 16, 2022

This "Goodnight Mommy" replicates the basic story beats of the original but leaves out all of the tension, ambiguity, and nasty invention that made that earlier effort so effective in the first place. Read full review

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ametistastar

Mar 4, 2023

I don't get really why people are demeaning so much this movie, actors performance was great. The movie accomplishes its purpose, to keep you entertained. It gives you little hints to notice what is going on around you for you to make the whole puzzle. It was not like those movies in whichI don't get really why people are demeaning so much this movie, actors performance was great. The movie accomplishes its purpose, to keep you entertained. It gives you little hints to notice what is going on around you for you to make the whole puzzle. It was not like those movies in which you get bored immediately and don't catch you right away, after some 15-20min I was already all in.… Expand