The production company Blumhouse has made a name for itself as a purveyor of high-concept, low-cost horror movies, and Ma fits the trend. Spencer plays Sue Ann, later christened Ma, a veterinary technician still living in the sleepy Ohio town where something mysterious and horrible happened to her as a teen. One sometimes feels like a fortune teller assessing the replay value of a movie like Ma beyond the obvious strengths of its star. We don’t necessarily require our favourite B-movies to be coherent, but Ma isn’t scary enough, funny enough or stylish enough to survive its shoddy last act. One wishes Taylor had just embraced Spencer’s unnerving, unexplained energy and let Ma take Ma wherever she wanted it to go, at her own speed.

Source: National Post May 31, 2019 15:33 UTC