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Films like Mama.

Mama (2013) reads as Heavy, steady, measured horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

XX (2017) poster
1. XX2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Hole in the Ground (2019) poster
2. The Hole in the Ground2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

It Follows (2014) poster
3. It Follows2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Detention (2019) poster
4. Detention2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Blue My Mind (2017) poster
5. Blue My Mind2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Nightmare Detective 2 (2008) poster
6. Nightmare Detective 22008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sicilian Ghost Story (2017) poster
7. Sicilian Ghost Story2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

You Are Not My Mother (2021) poster
8. You Are Not My Mother2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Satan's Slaves (2017) poster
9. Satan's Slaves2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Saint Ange (2004) poster
10. Saint Ange2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Nightmare Detective (2006) poster
11. Nightmare Detective2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Toloka (2020) poster
12. Toloka2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Mama’s neighbours — where are yours?

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