Umma

Umma

Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

  • Released: 2022-03-18
  • Runtime: 83 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
  • Stars: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi, Mark Kirksey
  • Director: Iris K. Shim
 Comments
  • manabrockz - 15 February 2024
    Forget the negative reviews
    If you like a good story with tinge of conflict, trauma and supernatural, this is it. I mean this is a horror movie based on parenting and trauma and it stayed true to that. What more were the audience expecting?

    The best part is how Amanda who was trying to be a good mother to her daughter as she still suffers from the trauma of bad parenting, was slowly becoming the thing she hated. The transaction from fear to forgiveness to remembrance is beautiful till you reach the flying hanbock that shows that umma hasn't left her daughter and will stay with her despite the ritual. That ending itself is true to the genre. The story was good, the jump scare were good, the emotions were good, the acting were good so overall the movie is good too. The negative reviews are unjustified. Obviously it is not a 10star movie but just to balance the reviews I am giving it a whole 10.
  • greutskol - 2 July 2023
    Bad reviews from people not using their own brain
    Me and my sister decided to watch this even though we saw it only had a 4,7 grade. We figured it was people who wanted jump scare, gory, no thinking required horror movies who've made the bad grade. We were right. Every bad review talk about it "not being horror" and "Netflix put this as a horror movie", maybe they did, but is that really a good reason to give a 1 star rating? It is more psychological, it's a story about generational trauma.

    Some also give bad reviews for Sandra Oh being in frame "too much", like she isn't the main character....she did a fantastic job. If you don't like her, you don't. But she is a great actress.

    All in all, the negative reviews are written by people who don't like to have to think or feel things when watching movies. I'm really glad I gave it a chance because I really liked it.