It’s a busy week for Blumhouse: In addition to releasing Happy Death Day 2U this weekend, the studio just dropped a trailer for a new thriller called Ma–and this thing looks like a barrel of bananas. The movie centers on a group of teens who encounter Octavia Spencer’s Ma and her phenomenal Dorothy Hamill bowl cut at a gas station, where they convince her to buy them some booze. She sees their offer, and raises them a very cool and totally normal invite to get wasted in her basement, which soon becomes the hot teen party spot in town. As clearly defined by the horror genre’s Law of Underage Drinking, these teens are not long for this world.
First things first: Ma was directed and co-written by Tate Taylor–the same Tate Taylor who introduced audiences to shit-pie in The Help. With that in mind, the trailer for Ma takes on an extra dimension of ridiculousness, and that’s before we even get to the part where Octavia tells a kid that he smells just like his daddy. Like a good Stefon nightclub, this trailer has a little of everything: Luke Evans playing “a local dad,” Octavia Spencer using FaceTime to taunt teenagers, and a Party Basement. It basically looks like the new Neil Jordan thriller Greta, but if Isabelle Huppert’s character was just a smidgen more ambitious.
Let’s take a look-see at the official synopsis for Ma: