Goodnight Mommy(2015)
2015 · Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz · 100 min
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
6.71.7k votes
TMDB score
5/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
5/5
Stays with you
How scary is Goodnight Mommy?
There's a quiet, suffocating unease that builds for most of the runtime, like something is wrong in a way you can't quite name. The pace is patient and deliberate, favoring long silences and strange domestic routines over any kind of jump scare, so the dread creeps in slowly rather than jolting you. Things shift hard in the back half, turning cold and physically uncomfortable in a way that's hard to shake afterward. This is for people who want a slow, mind-bending kind of horror rooted in family and identity, not gore-driven thrills, though it does get rough near the end.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Goodnight Mommy rates psychological 5/5, visceral 3/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 5/5, and overall intensity 5/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 5 of 5
- Intensity: 5 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 10 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 85 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 90 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, eerie build that quietly tightens its grip before turning into a brutal, unrelenting final act.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5.
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