Film: Utter mayhem in a house of horrors
mother! is a slick, sick nightmare that uncoils from a claustrophobic first hour to escalate into some of the most sustained insanity ever seen on a cinema screen
Cinema
mother!: Directed by Darren Aronofsky, Nationwide, 18,Rating:*****
The Villainess: Directed by Jung Byung-Gil, IFI, no cert,Rating:***
Darren Aronofsky’s mother! (the lower case and exclamation mark are his own styling) is the American writer and director’s most audacious and potentially divisive film yet; a slick, sick nightmare that uncoils from a claustrophobic first hour to escalate into some of the most sustained insanity ever seen on a cinema screen.
A haunted house creeper ...
