MA is a thriller in which a woman seeks revenge for the abuse she suffered as a teenager.
There should be something fun in watching Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer drop C-bombs and go apeshit. Instead, Ma is an ersatz, misjudged exercise in psycho-horror that lacks the courage of its B movie convictions.
Octavia Spencer keeps this trashy thriller watchable, but Ma is let down by its predictable plot and shallow script.
The Oscar winner devours her role as a lonely woman preying on a group of teenagers in a patchy yet mostly entertaining cross between Carrie and Misery.
Ma is at its most unsettling when its middle-aged anti-heroine is trying so hard and in such a forlorn way to insert herself into the lives of the high school kids who so obviously despise her.
Octavia Spencer turns psycho in a shambolic chiller from Tate Taylor.
Bunny-boiling thriller’s got good generation game.
The action slowly builds up to a frenzy and holds the attention throughout; and the casting like the performances are spot on, particularly Octavia Spencer whose star turn is the hallucinogenic glue which holds the paper-thin premise together. Get in!
The star saves the best craziness for last in an enjoyably silly stalker thriller.
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