Mama

Guillermo del Toro is in talks to produce and mentor commercial director Andres Muschietti’s horror film Mama for Universal, according to RiskyBiz.  Andy is writing the English-language screenplay with his sister and producer Barbra. The movie will be based on their acclaimed Spanish-language short film Mama, which traveled the European festival circuit last year. The short film told the story of Victoria and Lily, two girls who are go on the run from a ghostly woman in a Gothic home.

JoBlo has gotten their hands on the original short film, which I’ve embedded after the jump. The majority of the 3-minute film appears to take place in one single camera take (although, I’m sure that it was seamlessly stitched together like some of the segments of Children of Men). I highly recommend you check it out.

  • Dean
    felt more like an fx test than a short film. Even so. Some nice creepy moments.
  • McGruff
    Peter, the final battle scene from Children of Men when they are going through the city in one tracking shot was actually ONE shot, correct? I seem to remember them discussing that and saying how they got the take on the 2nd or 3rd try. Which scenes were actually stitched together?
  • Anonymous
    My hazy memory is that there's a stitch after they enter the building as they go upstairs...
  • I remember reading interviews after the movie came out and Cuaron was swearing up and down that it had actually been one take. Then the next year Cinefex came out and he confessed that it had actually been five or six takes, all stitched seamlessly.

    I think there's some stuff on the DVD about it... not sure...
  • Wow I loved that short film, would indeed be nice to see a big screen adaption of it.
  • Luke
    That is one creepy mama.
  • @McGruff I actually seem to remember them saying that too, somewhere on that DVD. However, if I recall correctly, I also heard that there are one or two cuts during that shot, but they somehow managed to perfectly connect them. Can somebody clear this up?
  • Very effective short, can see why he's getting to do his own movie. The part with the mom rushing at the kids downstairs was scarier than the whole 1 and a half hours of "Shutter"
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