Lucid Feature Film 2025
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Lucid Review – Surrealism, Scissors & Selfhood in a Fever Dream of Feminine Rage | Fantasia fest 2025

ByMother of Movies

My review of LUCID, the feature debut from Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall, from its World Premiere at Fantasia 2025. A grunge-fueled descent into madness as an art student (Caitlin Acken Taylor) takes a drug to find her muse, unleashing past trauma and surreal visuals in this potent, punk-art horror film.

Bring Her Back Review
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Bring Her Back (2025) Review, A Ritual of Grief, Guardianship, and Grapefruit Warnings

ByMother of Movies

In Bring Her Back (2025), the directors of Talk To Me return with a haunting foster horror soaked in grief, guardianship, and spiritual misfires. Sally Hawkins delivers an eerie, layered performance in a film that doesn’t always explain itself, but always knows how it wants you to feel.

The Surfer starring Nicolas Cage
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“The Surfer” (2024) – Nicolas Cage and the Beach Cult of Australian Masculinity

ByMother of Movies

n The Surfer (2024), Nicolas Cage returns home only to face spiritual and social exile from a brutal beachside cult. Set in a warped vision of Australia, the film unpacks toxic masculinity, ritualistic control, and identity collapse under the sun-bleached weight of the past.

The Rule of Jenny Pen Film Review
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The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) Review – The Puppet Master in the Nursing Home

ByMother of Movies

“The Rule of Jenny Pen” is an unsettling psychological horror featuring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow. In a New Zealand nursing home, a former judge must stop a twisted resident who uses a puppet to terrorize patients. Based on Owen Marshall’s short story, the film explores aging, justice, and institutional neglect with grimy cinematography and dread.

The Surrender Film Ending 2025
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The Surrender (2025): When Love Becomes a Cage and Death Offers No Escape

ByMother of Movies

Julia Max’s “The Surrender” (2025) starring Colby Minifie and Kate Burton delivers psychological horror that examines toxic family relationships through the lens of supernatural resurrection. When patriarch Robert dies, his widow Barbara and daughter Megan perform a brutal ritual to bring him back, only to discover some monsters are better left dead. This Shudder exclusive combines beautiful cinematography with devastating emotional truth about cycles of abuse and the mythology we create around toxic love. A must-watch for fans of elevated horror that prioritizes psychological terror over cheap scares.

Chad Archibalds It Feeds
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It Feeds Review: When Wolves Feast on Sheep’s Clothing

ByMother of Movies

It Feeds review: Chad Archibald’s psychological horror explores trauma, family therapy, and supernatural predation. Ashley Greene leads this atmospheric Black Fawn Films thriller about entities that feed on human vulnerability and the dangerous territory between helping and enabling.