In Kate Dolan’s characteristic directorial debut, “You Are Not My Mom,” a girl goes lacking — and she or he’s not fairly herself when she returns. A brand new trailer for the horror pic has arrived and sees the lady’s daughter, Char (Hazel Doupe), making an attempt to determine what occurred.
“Mother, the place did you go?” Char asks. “I can’t inform you. Not but,” her mom, Angela (Carolyn Bracken), replies.
Angela’s look hasn’t modified however Char and her grandmother Rita (Ingrid Craigie) can sense one thing may be very mistaken. “She would possibly look and sound the identical, however Angela’s conduct has turn out to be more and more erratic and scary, as if she has been changed by a malevolent drive,” the movie’s synopsis teases.
Rita would possibly maintain the important thing to fixing the thriller, and saving Angela. “There’s issues I have to inform you, Char,” Rita says. “It’s not your mom up there. If we don’t do one thing, we’ll by no means get her again. After which they’ll attempt to take you.”
Dolan informed Ladies and Hollywood that “the inspiration for writing [‘You Are Not My Mother’] got here from private experiences I had rising up, and likewise from Irish people historical past.” She defined, “In 1895 a girl named Bridget Cleary was burned alive by her husband when he thought she was a changeling. There are a lot of different tales like this, usually the place the ladies come to a tragic finish. I wished to flip a few of these tales on their heads and write a narrative with three generations of nuanced girls.”
“You Are Not My Mom” hits theaters and on demand March 25. It screened on the 2021 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
