In Kate Dolan’s characteristic directorial debut, “You Are Not My Mom,” a girl goes lacking — and he or she’s not fairly herself when she returns. A brand new trailer for the horror pic has arrived and sees the girl’s daughter, Char (Hazel Doupe), attempting to determine what occurred.
“Mother, the place did you go?” Char asks. “I can’t let you know. 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 could be very fallacious. “She would possibly look and sound the identical, however Angela’s conduct has develop into more and more erratic and horrifying, as if she has been changed by a malevolent pressure,” the movie’s synopsis teases.
Rita would possibly maintain the important thing to fixing the thriller, and saving Angela. “There’s issues I must let you know, 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 instructed Ladies and Hollywood that “the inspiration for writing [‘You Are Not My Mother’] got here from private experiences I had rising up, and in addition 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 ladies.”
“You Are Not My Mom” hits theaters and on demand March 25. It screened on the 2021 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant.
