2013 May 06 « HORROR BOOM

SPOILER ALERT-if you plan on seeing Mama (2013) on DVD but have not done so yet, it’s probably best to save watching this BTS footage till after the movie. More than one commenter on the Wired post said it sort of, well, spoiled the illusion.
Many of us who have been terrified by the movie for months, on the other hand, are more than happy to see that it was an illusion…

Well, we WISH we could take credit for any part of this, or just post it directly, but it’s a Wired.com Exclusive clip from the Javier Botet featurette on the Mama DVD/Blu-Ray. Click the big red link below for the never-before-seen footage!

Watch Jessica Chastain Kiss Mama in This Exclusive Clip/Underwire/Wired.com

SEE! Proof the CGI was mainly limited to the hair/clothes floating effect!

SEE! The only actor who could portray Mama in the feature film and give you the worst nightmares!

SEE! Javier Botet out of make-up, being interviewed, to possibly help you sleep a little better by reminding you it’s just a movie.*

Not to mention some very creepy concept art (it must be a co-incidence that one of the drawings looks like a relative of the Attic Monster/Medieros Girl from REC and REC2), Botet wandering around the set semi-casually in full makeup and costume (other than the CGI sensors/trackers wrapped around his bald head, making him look like the world’s scariest Christmas decoration), and we start to see him being swooped around on wires before the clip fades out. We do get to see over two minutes of amazing, never-before-seen footage, though. He does that horrifying, speedy crawl backwards, then they (apparently) reversed it to make it look extra creepy and unnatural.

You can watch the entire Javier Botet ‘bringing Mama to life’ (or death, as it were) featurette when the Mama DVD/Blu-Ray releases on May 7th… just in time for Mother’s Day.

*This will help, until the next time it’s the middle of the night, you can’t sleep, and you hear a strange noise.

Yo “Mama” (2013) DVD/Blu-ray Release Date is May 7th – PACKED With Bonus Features! We’ve Got The Details Here (horrorboom.com)
Mama (geekingcool.wordpress.com)
DVDs coming out May 7 (newsobserver.com)
Mama (2013) (canadiancinephile.com)

Both of these deleted scenes include the director commentary (though obviously, you can watch without commentary when you get your hands on the DVD/Blu-ray special features). The first one is titled “Honey, I’m home”…

And the second is “Not Raised By Animals” (no shit):

If you want to find out more about the special features–and the release is PACKED with them– we covered it in this piece here. They better include the goddamned scene from the trailer where the character Luke is digging around and suddenly uncovers a moldy human skull (scaring him so badly that he falls over) that was NOT in the movie’s theatrical release!

You know, this one?