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moviemosaics · 2 years

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Umma

directed by Iris K. Shim, 2022

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adamwatchesmovies · 2 years

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Umma (2022)

Umma had the ingredients to make a great ghost movie. It almost gets there but ultimately, it isn’t scary or original enough. That said, the film isn't terrible, which leaves it somewhere in the middle and destined to be forgotten.

Amanda (Sandra Oh) and her homeschooled daughter Chrissy “Chris” live on their rural farm without modern technology - being around electricity gives the mother an “allergic reaction”. When Amanda receives the cremated ashes and last possessions of her estranged Umma (mother), her abusive childhood comes back to haunt her.

Written and directed by Iris K. Shim (her first full-length effort), the film shows promise at first. Amanda was punished via electric shocks by her Umma as a child. As an adult, she shuns everything electrical. No light bulbs automatically mean the nights will be darker, the attics more threatening, etc. It means there are no phones to call for help, and no way to easily escape the situation via car either. Amanda was abused as a child, she’s sworn to never become like her mother but she’s so sheltered, so afraid of everything she can’t let go of Chrissy. This fear threatens to turn her into a control freak, and the more we learn about Umma, the more we see that they are, in fact, quite similar. Amanda’s already slightly-unhinged nature also makes her doubly dangerous. It would be quite easy for Umma to possess her daughter and “get away with it”. There are some relatable, very human themes here that are expanded into becoming horrific, which is a step in the right direction.

All that solid groundwork unfortunately doesn’t pay off. For instance, we know Umma’s ghost is real. We never question whether Amanda has simply gone off the deep end. Worse is the lack of tension or of scares. While watching, I kept thinking of Hereditary, of how nightmarish it was, and how peaceful this is in comparison. Shim can’t quite make up her mind about Umma. Electrocuting your daughter as a punishment is monstrous. I’d even say it’s unforgivable, which should make for great drama. How could Amanda make peace with her Umma, particularly when the wicked old woman is returning from the grave to torment her? The resolution isn’t satisfactory. It’s not believable either, not considering the trauma Amanda is still feeling in the present. Other aspects of the film don’t pay off either. There’s the recurring image of a nine-tailed fox but it doesn’t bring anything to the story. Considering the special effects used to create it are “fine” at best, it really should’ve been edited out.

You want to like Umma because Sandra Oh is really good in her role. It's odd how the picture can get certain things so right, and others so wrong. Umma keeps its cast small so that you can get attached to all of the characters, the themes it brings forward are relatable and rich with potential. And then… nothing. The film isn’t scary and ultimately, Umma feels way too familiar. (May 15, 2022)

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milliondollarbaby87 · 3 months

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Umma (2022) Review

Amanda and her daughter Chrissy live a very quiet life on an American farm but everything is about to be turned upside down when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea. ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

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rye-views · 6 months

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Umma (2022) dir. Iris K. Shim. 7.3/10

I would not recommend this movie to my friends. I would not rewatch this movie.

An uncle who we don't even recognize comes to our home and starts berating us? No thank you. I am not having an abusive mom haunt me after her death.

Idk, but the beginning bw Chrissy and her mom just didn't seem like a mother-daughter relationship. I just feel like Amanda could be better to her kid in general. I feel like this makes Korean culture seem more foreign. Even for a Korean American, the Korean seems foreign. The uncle doesn't even have a Korean accent. This is so traumatizing for the whole crew.

Why in movies do we never rinse our mouth after brushing our teeth? Who knew a nine-tailed fox could be so small?

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badgaymovies · 2 years

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Umma (2022)

Umma by #IrisKShim starring #SandraOh, "a familiar exercise that will exit your brain as soon as the first credits role", Now reviewed on MyOldAddiction.com

IRIS K. SHIM Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5 USA, 2022. Catchlight Studios, Raimi Productions, Stage 6 Films, Starlight Media. Screenplay by Iris K. Shim. Cinematography by Matt Flannery. Produced by Zainab Azizi, Sam Raimi. Music by Roque Baños. Production Design by Yong Ok Lee. Costume Design by Leah Butler. Film Editing by Louis Cioffi, Kevin Greutert. The tensions and traumas of motherhood,…

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olivierdemangeon · 2 years

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UMMA (2022) ★★✭☆☆

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#Dermot Mulroney #Fivel Stewart #Iris K. Shim #MeeWha Alana Lee #Odeya Rush #Sandra Oh #Tom Yi

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separatismlite · 1 year

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Female Directed Horror Films: Umma

Umma is the directoral debut of Iris K. Shim. This horror film is about immigration, intergenerational trauma, and the fear of becoming your parents.

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aimeecarreros · 1 year

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Fivel Stewart as Chrissy UMMA (2022) dir. Iris K. Shim

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esqueletosgays · 2 years

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UMMA (2022)

Director: Iris K. Shim Cinematography: Matt Flannery

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kristenswig · 2 years

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#214. Umma - Iris K. Shim

1.5/5

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 2 years

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UMMA (2022)

Starring Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, Tom Yi, MeeWha Alana Lee, Danielle K. Golden, Hana Marie Kim and Mark Kirksey.

Screenplay by Iris K. Shim.

Directed by Iris K. Shim.

Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. 83 minutes. Rated PG-13.

With the likes of Snowpiercer, Okja, The Host, Oldboy and particularly the Oscar-winning Parasite, Korean film (and filmmakers) have been on quite a roll in the last couple of decades. Umma (which is the Korean word for mom) is not exactly a Korean film, however its storyline and background very much revolves around Korean life and traditions.

The film takes place in the United States. Its director is a Korean American who is making her feature film debut. (She had previously directed the full-length documentary The House of Suh.) Star Sandra Oh is also of Korean ancestry, although she was born in Canada and has lived in the US for much of her life. The only other actor who is really known in the film is Dermot Mulroney, who is obviously also not Korean. It was produced by American horror-comic film director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange at the Multiverse of Madness).

Umma is a ghost story – sort of – and yet it is trying for much deeper resonances. It doesn’t always reach them… in fact it usually doesn’t, really… but it is trying to be a little deeper than the average scare film.

I have to say right off the bat that Oh, who is best known for Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve – does a fantastic job in her role, even if it does not always live up to her work.

She plays Amanda, an obviously neurotic beekeeper (yes, you read that right…) who lives on a sprawling farm in the middle of nowhere. Due to some very obscure illness, Amanda becomes violently ill when she is exposed to any kind of electricity (huh?) and thus never leaves the farm, which is completely off the grid. (No electrical appliances, all lamps are flame-based, no cars, no cell phones…) From the very beginning, this malady seems odd, and even though it is eventually explained away in the script, it still doesn’t make much sense.

Amanda’s daughter Chrissy (Fivel Stewart) is home-schooled but reaching college age and considering going off to school. Even though she is sweet and pretty, she has no real friends other than her mother (with whom she is very, very close) and is considered a bit of an oddball by most of the locals due to their spartan lifestyle. Unlike her mother, Chrissy is not afraid to venture into town – in fact she enjoys it – and while she is mostly happy in her life, she is interested in seeing more of the world as well.

The supernatural invades their little plot of the world when a strange man shows up at the farm. It turns out that he is the brother of Amanda’s long-estranged mother. Umma has died, and her last wishes were that her daughter perform a Korean ceremony to pass her into the next realm.

However, there is a dark, secret past between Amanda and her mother and Amanda refuses to abide by her wishes. Amanda feels that she was a cold, judgmental and evil mother – she has done all in her power to be a different kind of mother for Chrissy – so she just avoids doing it. Until suddenly she starts seeing – or imagining she sees – her mother in the farm and in the fields.

And that is basically where Umma falls apart somewhat – and this is coming from someone who is a sucker for ghost stories. It starts to rely on somewhat cliched horror tropes and jump scares, and it loses much of the eccentric energy it had to start.

Umma’s world is a quiet, insular, desolate, paranoid world. In fact, only six actors are listed in the end credits of the film, although there are another 5-10 uncredited extras that pop up periodically in the film, mostly in the early scenes – none of whom have any dialogue, I believe.

Umma had the potential to be a fascinating and creepy look at lives and culture, but it never quite reaches that potential.

Jay S. Jacobs

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simplylove101 · 2 years

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2022 Horror Challenge: [22/?]

↳ “There's no point in talking to you if you're gonna act like this.”

“Like what?”

“A psycho bitch.” Umma (2022) dir. Iris K. Shim

Plot: Amanda and her daughter live 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.

Starring: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi

Final catch-up review for the night. I still have to write one for Nope but I wanna rewatch it before I do. Now this one... I’m ngl it’s a blank to me for the most part cuz it feels like I watched it so long ago when it’s only been a few months. All I know is that I remember not liking this. I remember going in wanting to because Sandra Oh is such a good actress and I do think she did what she could with this. And Fivel (a familiar face from Atypical on Netflix) was on her level imo and I liked the angle being on their mother/daughter relationship cuz that’s always relatable. But I remember this just not having the tension needed for horror movies. And ugh, the lame jumpscares. Any movie that relies on them too much is never gonna get my vote because it’s cheap. Sad to say cuz I had been excited to see Sandra shine in a horror movie, but that majorly bad rating on IMDB is definitely warranted. Could have been so much better.

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ridethepunkhorse · 2 years

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Umma (Iris K. Shim, USA, 2022)

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movienation · 2 years

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Netflixable? Hollywood-made K-horror "Umma" now streaming

Netflixable? Hollywood-made K-horror “Umma” now streaming

“Umma” opened for a minute…and a minute only, last spring during its theatrical release. But even under the best of circumstances, with no pandemic, it had a limited ceiling. It’s a quality horror film seriously short of frights, with some of those ready-made jolts mishandled by writer-director Iris K. Shim, a long-time production assistant and sometime editor making her writing and directing…

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prancis-film-reviews · 2 years

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Umma (2022) review:

THE MESSAGE OF THE MOVIE IS SCARIER THAN ITS HORROR

review by: francis

Never been bored watching a movie like this in a while. I didn’t expect anything too so… yeah.

The only thing that works in the movie for me is the whole ‘Generational Trauma’ thing and Amanda’s fear of becoming like her mother. Also involving the Korean-American or foreign immigrant thing going on in the movie that applies in real life. Other than these, the movie was underwhelming.

This is the kind of movie that upon seeing, you’ll know what to expect; And I did know what to expect while watching and everything was predictable. It felt cliched and that average horror movie that pops every, once in a while and you’ll forget about it existing later. The horror elements weren’t effective for me and they did nothing. But it’s still well done it’s just that, it isn’t impressive or scary in the slightest. The jump scares did nothing as well but it was still well done.

Performance wise from the characters were great. Sandra Oh and Fivel Stewart stood out of course. Other characters as well.

I’ll rate “Umma” a 2/5 👎

This is the first disappointing horror movie I’ve watched this year.

Movie Info:

Rating: PG-13

Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror

Directed By: Iris K. Shim

Release Date: Mar 18, 2022

Watch the trailer here!