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More Photos of Octavia Spencer’s Psycho ‘Ma’
One of the strangest films arriving this summer is Universal Pictures’ Ma, a new Blumhouse thriller starring Oscar winner Octavia Spencer as Sue Ann, a lonely older woman who opens her basement up to the new teenager in town (Diana Silvers, Glass) so she can party with her new friends.
We just got our hands on the full image gallery that has quite a few gems of Spencer’s psycho Ma.
The film also stars Juliette Lewis (August: Osage County, Natural Born Killers) as Maggie’s mom, Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast, Dracula Untold) as a local dad, Missi Pyle(Gone Girl) as his girlfriend, and McKaley Miller (TV’s “Hart of Dixie”), Corey Fogelmanis (TV’s “Girl Meets World”), Gianni Paolo (TV’s “Power”) and Dante Brown(“Lethal Weapon” TV series) as Maggie’s friends.
Ma, in theaters May 31st, hails from Tate Taylor, the acclaimed director of The Help and Get On Up.
Juliette Lewis and director Tate Taylor on the set of “Ma.”
Diana Silvers as Maggie in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
(from left) Maggie (Diana Silvers), Erica (Juliette Lewis, back to camera) and Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer) in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
(from center) Director Tate Taylor and Octavia Spencer on the set of “Ma.”
(from left) Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer) and Ben (Luke Evans) in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
(from left) Andy (Corey Fogelmanis), Darrell (Dante Brown), Chaz (Gianni Paolo) and Officer Grainger (Tate Taylor) in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
(from left) Haley (McKaley Miller), Chaz (Gianni Paolo), Darrell (Dante Brown), Andy (Corey Fogelmanis) and Maggie (Diana Silvers) in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
(from left) Maggie (Diana Silvers) and Haley (McKaley Miller) in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
(from left) Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer), Maggie (Diana Silvers) and Haley (McKaley Miller) in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
(from left) Octavia Spencer, director Tate Taylor, Dante Brown, Diana Silvers, McKaley Miller and a crew member on the set of “Ma.”
Juliette Lewis as Erica in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
Octavia Spencer as Sue Ann in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
(from left) Darrell (Dante Brown, back to camera), Chaz (Gianni Paolo), Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer) and Haley (McKaley Miller) in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
Octavia Spencer as Sue Ann in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
Octavia Spencer as Sue Ann in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
(from left) Haley (McKaley Miller) and Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer) in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
Octavia Spencer as Sue Ann in “Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor.
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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