Horror Movie Review! Mother!
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4.7 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Tonight on HTGS reviews, we break down the movie Mother!
**Spoilers!**
Mother! (2017) is a psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky. It follows a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) living in a secluded house with her poet husband (Javier Bardem). Their tranquil life is disrupted when uninvited guests (Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer) arrive, bringing chaos and tension. As more strangers invade their home, the woman's reality unravels, revealing a surreal, allegorical tale exploring themes of creation, destruction, and humanity's relationship with nature. The film is intense, symbolic, and open to interpretation, often seen as a commentary on environmental and biblical narratives.
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| 1:06.0 | Who's the Dummy Now? dummy now. Welcome in everybody to another H.T.G.S. review. I am your host, your fearless leader for this movie. |
| 1:49.4 | That is wild that we'll get into. My name is Rob Coakley, joined as always by Dave Wilkins. |
| 1:56.3 | Hello, Rob Coakley. And Jesse Wilkins. |
| 1:59.1 | Hello. |
| 2:00.0 | And we are talking about the movie |
| 2:03.5 | mother which was one that I wanted to see when it came out and it was for me |
| 2:09.0 | I don't know if this happens to you guys there's movies that will come out that you want to |
| 2:12.4 | watch and then for whatever reason they just saw or slip through the cracks and you end up not watching |
| 2:18.3 | them. |
| 2:19.2 | So I was glad to come back to this. |
| 2:21.2 | Or was I? |
| 2:22.0 | We'll find out before we talk about the movie, though. |
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