If decades’ worth of horror movies is to be believed, motherhood is just a nightmarish spiral into psychosis and murder. There are no shortage of films that back up this assertion, and now you can add the Sandra Oh film Umma to that list.
You know there’s something to Umma because Sam Raimi attached his name to it as a producer. The title comes from the Korean word for “mother”, and the story fits that to a tee. Oh plays a mother who lives on a rural farm with her daughter, living off the land and without modern technology. When she receives the cremated ashes of her dead estranged mother, they unleash something terrible that forces her to confront her greatest fear.
The film also stars Fivel Stewart, MeeWha Alana Lee, Odeya Rush, Tom Yi, and Dermot Mulroney, and was written and directed by Iris K. Shim.
Umma opens in theaters on March 18th.
Umma, which is the Korean word for “mother,” follows Amanda (Sandra Oh) and her daughter (Fivel Stewart) living 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.
