Mother Mary [Movie Review]

Mother Mary [Movie Review] | I was so excited when I saw the trailers. They look so promising. I was so happy to see Anne is doing a horror film. Now both Emilys have done horror films.

SYNOPSIS

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• Starring: Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, Atheena Frizzell, Kaia Gerber, Jessica Brown Findlay, Alba Baptista, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Sian Clifford & FKA Twigs
• Director: David Lowery
• Producer: Toby Halbrooks, Jeanie Igoe, James M. Johnston, David Lowery, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo & Jonathan Saubach
• Production Company: Homebird Productions& augenschein Filmproduktion
• Distributed by: A24
• Release date: April 17, 2026
• Running time: 112 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: United States & Germany
• Language: English
• IMDb: NA
• Tomatometer: 72%
• Metascore: 56%
• The persona of Mother Mary is a high fashion collage of pop’s "Holy Trinity." Beyoncé’s Homecoming inspired the regal halos, Lady Gaga’s "Meat Dress" era fueled the incendiary aesthetic and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour informed the cult like devotion of Mary’s fans. 
• The "Ultimate Dress" is no mere prop. It is a masterwork by experimental couturier Iris van Herpen. Handpicked from a "wall of masterpieces" at her atelier, the gown’s intricate complexity earned it a rare, solo distinction of its own credit in the film’s opening crawl.

The movie follows Mary, a superstar seeking a phoenix-like resurrection after a mysterious, self-imposed exile. Her return to the stage is imminent, but there is a visceral problem: she has nothing to wear that feels like her soul. Desperate, Mary flees to a gothic estate in England to find Sam Anselm.

Sam is the architect of Mary’s original aesthetic, the one who infused her brand with religious iconography and ornate halos. She is also a woman deeply wounded, feeling like a discarded relic of Mary’s meteoric rise. Their reunion is not a warm one. Sam describes Mary as a "carcinogen," yet the creative pull between them is undeniably supernatural. Mary demands a showstopper in three days, an impossible feat unless she can stop time itself. With a snap of her fingers, the laws of reality seem to bend and the two women sequester themselves in a cavernous, dilapidated barn to create.

To design the garment, Sam demands to see Mary dance in total silence. In a sequence that borders on body horror, Hathaway delivers a primal, animalistic performance. Barefoot in the dust, she twists her limbs into shapes that violate physics, grunting and weeping in a display that feels less like choreography and more like a demonic possession. 

Mary has only one rule: no red. She is haunted by a crimson entity that shadows her every move, a specter that Sam admits she has also seen before. 

Is Sam crafting a holy shroud for Mary’s rebirth or is she meticulously weaving a visual cage for her downfall?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• Strong performances from the cast.

What I Don't Like:

• At times, it felt like I was watching a play.
• It is not a horror movie. Abstract perhaps?
• Not that it is a boring movie, but it is too serious for my liking.

Will I Watch It Again: No

Overall: 3.5/ 5.0

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