VIDEO: Guillermo del Toro Reveals Original MAMA Short Film

Guillermo Del Toro, producer of Mama, which opens on January 18th via Universal, has just introduced Andres Muschietti's original, Spanish-language short film that inspired the feature-length movie. Click below to check it out!

MAMA is an upcoming 2013 horror drama film, directed by Muschietti from a screenplay by Muschetti, Barbara Muschetti and Neil Cross. The film is produced by J. Miles Dale and Barbara Muschietti, with Guillermo Del Toro serving as executive producer. Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, now making her Broadway debut in The Heiress, stars along with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, and Isabelle Nélisse.

In the film, a couple, Annabel and Lucas, are faced with the challenge of raising Lucas' young nieces, who were discovered in a forest after being lost there for five years. It becomes apparent that the girls are being haunted by a ghostly woman they believe to be their mother.Annabel plans to use the girls in a bid to bring back her own dead children.

Leave Comments

Tweet

Related Links

Michael McElroy, Nathan Lee Graham & More to Lead Concert Performance of Max Vernon's New Musical THE VIEW UPSTAIRS, 6/24 June 19, 2013

Reena Shah to Direct, Star in Staged Reading of IMPERFECTLY FRANK, 6/24 June 19, 2013

STAGE TUBE: Behind the Scenes - Liz Femi's TAKE ME TO THE POORHOUSE by Stage Tube - June 19, 2013

BWW Review: Reagle's CHICAGO is Splendiforous! by Nancy Grossman - June 18, 2013

Liz Femi's TAKE ME TO THE POORHOUSE Continues thru 6/28 at Hollywood Fringe; Set for NYC's United Solo Fest June 18, 2013