Feral Children and Ghosts Abound in ‘Mama’ Trailer

If there’s one thing we love at Film Pulse, it’s movies involving feral children, and it looks like we’re going to be in for a treat with Andres Muschietti‘s Mama, starring Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. If feral children weren’t enough to keep you up at night, the film looks to also have a supernatural spin as well, just to enhance the creepiness.  

The film is also marked as being presented by Guillermo Del Torro, not that that really means anything. Mama is set for a January 18, 2013 release, read the synopsis and check out the trailer below.

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed.  When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

Five years ago, sisters Victoria and Lilly vanished from their suburban neighborhood without a trace.  Since then, their Uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain), have been madly searching for them.  But when, incredibly, the kids are found alive in a decrepit cabin, the couple wonders if the girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.

As Annabel tries to introduce the children to a normal life, she grows convinced of an evil presence in their house.  Are the sisters experiencing traumatic stress, or is a ghost coming to visit them?  How did the broken girls survive those years all alone?  As she answers these disturbing questions, the new mother will find that the whispers she hears at bedtime are coming from the lips of a deadly presence.