Plus, a Neil LaBute vampire movie, 'House of Darkness,' Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke 'Do Revenge' on Netflix, and Jon Hamm is the new 'Fletch.'
is a modern genre classic: a deeply disturbing tale of dread, with a sucker-punch twist and several scenes of almost unbearable suspense. The new English-language remake — directed by Matt Sobel from a Kyle Warren screenplay — softens some of the original’s more extreme moments, but keeps most of writer-directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s major plot points. Because of this, fans of the first “Goodnight Mommy” may find it a pale, pointless copy.
Sobel and Warren preserve their source material’s shocking third-act reveal, and they restage many of the tense sequences of the kids sneaking about and gathering evidence. But this “Goodnight Mommy” pulls back too much from the violence and torture that made the original such a sublime ordeal. This is still a disturbing story about what happens when the emotional gulf between parent and child becomes unbridgeable.
‘House of Darkness.’ R, for some bloody violence/gore, sexual material and language throughout. 1 hour, 28 minutes. Available on VODEarly in the teenage melodrama “Do Revenge,” as a way of tipping a cap to one of its primary inspirations, one of the two leads is seen reading“Strangers on a Train,” a classic thriller novel about two desperate people trying to solve each other’s problems via murder. The scheme in “Do Revenge” isn’t quite as bloody as Highsmith’s, though.
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