Mother Mary (2026) - Drive Home From The Drive-in Review
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Superstar life has gone spooky in David Lowery's latest, MOTHER MARY. The film follows a pop idol (Anne Hathaway) who shows up on her ex-head designer's (Michaela Coel) doorstep only a couple nights before her comeback performance, desperate for a new dress. While the women battle it out between bolts of fabric, they try to mend (or at least a come to terms with) a lifelong friendship and business partnership that was shred to ruins over a decade prior. Oh yeah, and there might be a ghost.
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Verdict: We say, if you caught the trailer and want some sorta spooky popstar vibes in your life, go see it! But go in knowing it's a drama with horror elements, emphasis on the drama. Some great visuals to be seen, but it's a very dialogue-heavy film that saves most of its interesting bits for the final twenty minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:05.0 | The current time is 666. |
| 0:10.0 | Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife, but it's hell outside. |
| 0:17.0 | So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim. |
| 0:26.9 | Hello again, Fiends, and welcome to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for The Casually Obsessed. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Kimmy. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm John. |
| 0:34.9 | And this week, we are sitting down to talk about Mother Mary in a drive home from the drive-in review straight out of seeing it out of the theater. Yesterday. We saw it yesterday. Straight. We just got home. Okay. I'm lying. Yeah. Mother Mary, it's not a ghost story. That's the tagline for the movie. Is that actually the tagline? That is actually the tagline. |
| 0:54.9 | Which made me just go, it's probably a ghost story, right? I mean, based on the tagline, probably going to be a ghost story. Whenever something says it's not going to be about ghosts, you're like, why did you say that, though? It's not a pyramid scheme. It's a pyramid scheme. It's an MLM. Exactly. Yeah, it's written and directed by David Lowry, who also did Ghost Story and the Green Knight. |
| 1:13.8 | Ghost Story is the one with the sheet in the house, right? Ghost Story is the one with the sheet in the house. That's exactly the one where... Maybe that's the tagline. The sheet in the house. Yeah, the tagline should be Rooney Mara is going to eat a whole fucking pie. Get ready for it. It's all anybody ever talks about. Highlight of the film. This one is a, would you say, Lady Gaga inspired horror movie? I thought that, but I took a gander at the inspirations for the film, and it turns out Taylor Swift and Beyonce were the big ones. Okay, there's one character that you see for 10 seconds that would be the inspiration |
| 1:45.4 | for Taylor Swift, for sure. There's the girl at the end of the movie that we're trying to like, oh, this is a new pop star. We can't let her, like, steal our shine. Beyonce, for sure, Gaga, just because it's a little spooky, I guess. But like, in terms of the level of pop star that Anne Hathaway's character is, |
| 2:00.7 | Beyonce is a great... |
| 2:01.5 | Yeah, in terms of... |
| 2:02.7 | Yeah, like height of stardom, definitely... of the level of pop star that Anne Hathaway's character is, Beyonce is a great. |
| 2:01.5 | Beyond, yeah, in terms of, yeah, like height of stardom, definitely Beyonce. |
| 2:05.8 | I don't know if in terms of aesthetic or tone or vibe, neither Taylor Swift, but they're |
| 2:11.8 | trying to do their own, like, original pop star. This one is very, like, biblical in nature. |
| 2:15.9 | I think the stylist at one point says that |
| 2:18.8 | she designed her in the vein of Joan of Arc, which is like really cool. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. The |
| 2:24.4 | synopsis, like the elevator pitch for the movie, I guess, is that a pop star is having a bit of an |
| 2:29.3 | existential crisis and needs a new dress. Existential crisis is giving her a lot of favor. She's in a full |
| 2:36.0 | out breakdown. She shows up like it's raining. Her hair's a mess. She's like, I need a dress for |
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