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.
- Released: 2022-03-18
- Runtime: 83 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
- Stars: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi, Mark Kirksey
- Director: Iris K. Shim
Comments
- LetsReviewThat26 - 16 January 2024
More drama than horror
Though listed as a horror, I felt umna was more of a dram with thriller elements mixed in. The combination of Sandra oh and fival Stewart as a daughter and mother pair was a good cat match. I felt they had good chemistry and both have great acting slills. When Amanda's mother's ashes arrive, she is shocked and almost bewildered by them. There's some in explored issues there and you can tell. She worries about becoming her mother and the elements of horror we see through this are represented well but ultimately it does become more lf a thriller drama. There's nothing really wrong with that and overall i thought umna was a fine watchable movie with some pretty goos acting. - questl-18592 - 10 April 2023
Um Ah
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this. What an oddly beautiful tale of hereditary guilt, regret and transmitted behavior. This is where horror has the opportunity to evolve, to represent something more and I feel like it perfectly balanced the metaphor with the reality of the film. It's very tight, a whopping 5 significant characters in the movie, all pretty much shot in two locales. It feels like it's missing just that little something extra to boost it up into proper greatness, but I'm quite pleased with calling it very good.
Might not be a buy for most, but would definitely check it out. - Leofwine_draca - 1 November 2022
Nothing going on here
UMMA is another one of those slow-burning psychological horror films that might not be horror at all...in fact, I'm struggling to work out exactly what this IS meant to be. It's clearly made on a tiny budget, set in a remote farmhouse where just one character seems to hang around for a very long time until the credits roll. I've never been a fan of Sandra Oh and have no interest in KILLING EVE so she left me totally cold, but the biggest disappointment is that this teases South Korean folklore and has absolutely nothing to do with it. In fact, it has nothing to do with anything, unless you like inanity. - w00f - 7 September 2022
Sandra Oh My God It's Terrible
I don't write reviews on here much anymore but after being suckered into watching Sandra Oh's blatant, ham-handed, sappy, not-at-all-scary vanity project, I felt like I needed to warn fellow horror aficionados that this is NOT A HORROR MOVIE. There are no demons in it. In fact, there are maybe five minutes of anything vaguely horror-related. 75% of this movie is a tight shot of Sandra Oh's (and I may be conservative there). See Sandra Oh cry. See her get angry. See her look confused, all in extreme closeup! In fact, if you don't love Sandra Oh, there absolutely no reason to watch this trite, maudlin, BAD movie because it's ALL about keeping Sandra Oh in your face at all times. The best analogy I can think of is that woman who was selling her farts in jars online recently. This movie is Sandra Oh farting in a jar and Netflix bought the jar!
Netflix has no business selling this as a horror movie. Sam Raimi must have his own reasons for associating his name with this garbage. I had no strong feelings about Sandra Oh before seeing this. Now that I have, I will actively avoid anything starring Sandra Oh in perpetuity. - michaelmangiamele - 15 August 2022
What did I just watch?
This definitely shouldn't have been a horror film. Would have been more interesting as a drama showing the psychological wounds of our ancestors. There was absolutely no reason to turn this into a horror genre. This was a huge mistake. Not scary because it just doesn't fit into a horror genre.
