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After a rather front-loaded theatrical run, a critically panned new horror movie starring Jessica Chastain is all set for its digital debut. The movie delivered a solid opening despite the poor reviews, but was unable to keep the momentum going. This weekend, it will complete a full month of release in theaters, having passed its final box-office milestones both domestically and worldwide. Chastain has had a successful run in the horror genre, although the new movie is her worst-performing scary movie, both critically and commercially.
It debuted theatrically in October and grossed $27 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office. This was a higher debut haul than that of DC's Clayface, which opened a few days later. Unlike that film, however, Chastain's horror movie received poor reviews. It was directed by Rob Savage, who broke out with a couple of acclaimed micro-budget horror movies during the pandemic and made his Hollywood studio debut with the successful Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman.
Starring Sophie Thatcher, The Boogeyman grossed more than $80 million worldwide against a reported budget of $35 million. Savage's new film cost significantly less and has made considerably more at the box office so far. Produced on a reported budget of less than $20 million, the movie has generated around $115 million globally. By comparison, Chastain's 2013 horror film Mama grossed nearly $150 million against a reported budget of $15 million.
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what it would leave behind.
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever won that particular argument.
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
Directed by Andy Muschietti, Mama is now sitting at a 64% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Chastain and Muschietti reunited on It: Chapter Two, which holds a 62% score. Chastain's new horror movie, Other Mommy, appears to have settled at a 19% score on the aggregator website, where the consensus reads, "Despite a valiant turn from Jessica Chastain as the spectral embodiment of a smothering parent, Other Mommy proves too silly for its intermittently effective jump scares to add up to a spooky whole."
Other Mommy is based on the novel "Incidents Around the House" and produced by horror maestro James Wan. It also features Jay Duplass and Arian Moayed. Chastain, best known for roles in Zero Dark Thirty, The Tree of Life, The Martian, and Interstellar, will soon headline the Netflix movie Heartland, due out on November 13. Other Mommy will debut on the PVOD market on November 10, along with Brad Pitt's survival thriller Heart of the Beast. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
