To the credit of director, his co-writing team and a first-rate cast, 'Mama' succeeds in scaring the wits out of us and leaving some lingering, deeply creepy images, despite indulging in many of the aforementioned cliches - and about a half-dozen more. Some time after the first occurrence of Scary Old Timey Music Wafting Through the Vents, after Creepy Bugs Fluttering Inside the House and certainly by the time of the 'Accidental' Fall That Sidelines a Key Character - well, that's when any red-blooded, movie-going individual would run out the front door and never look back. Very few horror movies would last past the second act if the characters in these films were actually fans of horror movies.
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