After World Premiering at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Shudder has acquired the South African supernatural horror Good Madam (Mlungu Wam) with plans to release later this year, reports Deadline. Meagan Navarro was mixed on the film, writing in her review that it’s “a slow build of psychological and supernatural horror that sometimes confuses […]
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South African psychological horror Mlungu Wam (Good Madam) uses an intimate character study nestled in a possibly haunted house as an allegory. It wields one stubborn and unreliable narrator as an entry point into a cultural examination and a haunted legacy. Yet, largely thanks to its obscure ambiguity and intimate storytelling, it never feels heavy-handed […]
The Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program is already jam-packed with genre films and yet there are even more goodies hiding within the line-up. One highlight is Mlungu Wam (Good Madam), a horror satire in which residues of apartheid-era domestic servitude confront legacies of colonial land theft. The film hails from South African auteur […]