Summaries. After a young couple take in their two nieces, they suspect that a supernatural spirit named Mama has latched onto their family. After their father Jeffrey, partner in a brokerage firm, has a breakdown and kills co-workers and his estranged wife, he disappears with his two young daughters.

Mama is a 2013 supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Andy Muschietti in his directorial debut and based on his 2008 Argentine short film Mam. The film stars Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nlisse, Daniel Kash, and Javier Botet as the title character.