Director: Rob Savage

Cast: Jessica Chastain, Dichen Lachman, Karen Allen

Synopsis:

In Other Mommy (2026), eight‑year‑old Bela is terrorized by a sinister entity that looks exactly like her mother and emerges from her bedroom closet, growing increasingly threatening as her family’s turmoil deepens.

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Maternal madness is nothing new for the horror genre or for Jessica Chastain, who headlined 2013’s Mama and now takes center stage in Other Mommy, a thriller that borrows liberally (to put it kindly) from Henry Selick’s stop-motion classic Coraline and its portrait of an alternate-dimension mother who wants nothing more than to lovingly possess her daughter.

With wide, unblinking eyes and a rictus grin that would be right at home in the Smile franchise, the Oscar-winning actress proves a demented figure of parental adoration run amok, and though Rob Savage’s film cares little for reason, its unbridled rollercoaster momentum and hallucinatory haunted-house energy make it a thriller fit for a Friday night out at the multiplex with friends.

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