Goodnight Mommy (2022)

A remake of an Austrian film released eight years ago. The twin brothers arrive at their mother's house and begin to suspect that something is wrong with her. The story follows a mother and her two sons gradually falling into a rabbit hole of paranoia and distrust. A woman returns from the hospital to her rich, icily refined and sterile home. After plastic surgery, her face is hidden under bandages. Children will only recognize the familiar eyes of the one whose noble appearance they have been used to seeing since birth.

But most of all, the children are alarmed by the unusual behavior of the mother: she is angry, rude, demands silence and darkness, sets strange rules of behavior, does not tolerate the presence of animals. When she mercilessly floods the terrarium with their Madagascar cockroaches with water, the boys are horrified: our mother would not have done exactly that. Doubt creeps into children's souls that their mother is some kind of impostor. The ordinary phrase that came off the lips ‒ with a good night wish to mom ‒ is devoid of sincerity, it is forced and insincere. But the woman does not notice the falsity. The flywheel of the mechanism is launched, which spins a sadistic quest according to the sons' definition of the "authenticity" of their mother.