Ma

💎💎MA💎💎 – Get Home Safe. A lonely middle-aged woman befriends some teenagers and decides to let them party in the basement of her home. But there are some house rules: One of the kids has to stay sober, don’t curse and never go upstairs. They must also refer to her as Ma. But as Ma’s hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare and Ma’s place goes from the best place in town to the worst place on Earth. Everybody’s welcome at Ma’s. But good luck getting home safe. Sue Ann (Oscar winner Octavia Spencer) is a lonely woman who keeps herself in a quiet Ohio town. When a local teenage girl asks Sue Ann to buy some booze for her group of friends, she decides to make some new friends of her own and offers her basement for the kids to party. They just have to follow a few simple house rules: someone has to stay sober. Don’t curse. Never go upstairs. And call her “Ma.” As Ma’s hospitality curdles into obsession, what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare and Ma’s place goes from the best place in town to the worst place on Earth. In this new psychological horror-thriller from Tate Taylor and Blumhouse, a lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn’t get any better, things start happening that make them question the intentions of their crazy host.

The revenge film follows Sue Ann (Spencer), a woman who struggles with social rejection, peer pressure and bullying. She is a lonely veterinary aide who lives in a town in Ohio. Things start to go wrong when she meets a group of teenagers. Despite their age differences, Sue Ann is invited into the clique, which she buys alcohol for. At first, it’s fun for Sue Ann, who comes to be called Ma, as her friendship with the high schoolers gives her the opportunity to be social and it get her invited to parties. However, it become increasingly difficult for her to let go of her friends during weekends. She eventually develops an obsessive fixation on the group. The involvement of heir friends’ parents also triggers past trauma. These developments lead to violence. The 16-year-old Maggie and her mother Erica move from San Diego to a small town in the Mississippi to start a new life. Soon Maggie befriends a group of teenagers from the high school and together they befriend the nice Sue Ann, who works at the local pet shop. She invites the teenagers to drink and party at her house but what they do not know is that Sue Ann is a psychotic woman that is plotting a revenge.

Ma is a 2019 American psychological horror film produced, cowritten and directed by Tate Taylor. It stars Octavia Spencer, Juliette Lewis, Diana Silvers, Corey Fogelmanis and Luke Evans and follows a group of teenagers who befriend a lonely middle-aged woman. She lets them party in her basement and they end up being terrorized by her. The film was produced nu Jason Blum though his Blumhouse Productions company, along with Tate Taylor and John Norris. Initially Ma came together as a result of Taylor’s desire to direct a film about “something fucked up” and Spencer’s desire to break away from the kinds of roles she and black women in general, usually get to play. Taylor and Spencer are longtime friends, having worked together on films such as The Help and Get on Up, Later, in 2018, Taylor and Blumhouse Productions began developing the film with Taylor directing, Landes writing,  Blum producing and Spencer starring it. Principal photography on the film started in February 2018 and wrapped in March 2018 in Mississippi with parts shot in Natchez. Ma was released in the United States on May 31, 2018 by Universal Studios. It has grossed $61.6 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics who praised Spencer’s performance but criticized the teenage characters and said the film did not take full advantage of its premise.

Teenager Maggie Thompson moves with her mother Erica to her Ohio hometown after Erica’s husband leaves her. At her new high school, Maggie befriends Haley, Darrell, Chaz and Andy, who immediately develops a crush on her. They convince Sue Ann “Ma” Ellington, a veterinary technician, to help them buy alcohol because they are underage. Sue Ann anonymously reports the teenagers’ activities, but they are released because of the officer’s history with Andy’s father, Ben. The next day, Sue Ann invites the teenagers to drink in her basement. The next time they go, Sue Ann has decorated the basement and lots of other teenagers show up at her house to party, making her popular among the students. However, her hospitality starts to annoy the group as she continuously harasses them to engage in various activities with her. One night, Sue Ann sees Andy and Maggie kissing and becomes jealous (as she is in love with him, having had a crush on his father, Ben, in high school). She drugs Maggie immediately after and takes her earrings. The next morning, Maggie wakes up and notices her earrings are missing and is badly bruised and cut. Scared, Maggie tells Andy that she does not want to go to her house anymore and that she does not want him to go as well and he agrees. One day, to earn the group’s trust back, Ma meets with them to tell them that she has Pancreatic cancer (which is a lie) and that is why she acts the way she does. As she is talking, Haley notices that she is a wearing a bracelet that belongs to a friend of theirs. The girls suspect that Sue Ann has been stealing their jewelry, so they go to her house to investigate. They are surprised by Genie, Sue Ann’s daughter from a failed marriage, who Maggie thought used a wheelchair, but she is clearly able-bodied. She warns them as Sue Ann arrives home and they narrowly escape.

Ben shows up at Sue Ann’s job, to drop off his cat and invites her out for drinks after work. Sue Ann goes home to change and meets him at the bar, where Ben confronts Sue Ann with a tracking device and asks her why his son has been at her house so much. Ben warns Sue Ann to stay away from Andy, calling her pathetic. A flashback reveals that Sue Ann, who had a crush on Ben in high school, performed fellatio on him in a closet. Once she left the closet, it turned out that she had been doing it to another boy and Ben had tricked her. Ben had gotten the entire school to witness the event (including his current girlfriend Mercedes and a young Erica) and Sue Ann suffered devastating humiliation, which she never recovered from. An increasingly unstable Sue Ann runs over Mercedes with het truck, killing her. She kills her boss, draws blood from Maggie’s dog Louie and lures Ben to her house, where she knocks him out. Ben wakes up trapped in her bed; Sue Ann pumps Louie’s blood into his body, slashes his wrist and leaves him to die. Maggie tells her mother the truth about Sue Ann and is grounded. Sue Anne sends Maggie a picture of herself with Andy in her basement at Chaz’s birthday party. Hurt that he went back to her house despite promising that he would not go back, she sneaks out of the house to confront him. When she arrives, she notices that everyone has left and that only the original group remain. She tries to get Andy to leave but soon realizes that Andy and the rest of her friends have been drugged. Maggie tries to get help and in the process finds Ben’s body. As she stands there in horror, Sue Ann renders her unconscious.

Maggie awakens chained in the basement. Sue Ann irons Chaz’s stomach, sews Haley’s mouth shut and paints Darrell’s face white with industrial paint, because she feels there is only room for one black person in the group and that is her. Andy awakens and tries to seduce Ann, as he is well aware that she is in love with him. He tries to trick her by telling her that he loves her and kisses her, but she stabs him after knowing that he is lying. An officer arrives and when Maggie screams for help, Sue Ann shoots the officer dead before he can react. She then gathers the four friends around the couch with her and makes Maggie take photos of them together in a crude recreation of what Sue Ann always longed for but never had. Sue Ann then leaves Maggie to be hanged before Genie intervenes. Everyone else wakes up to discover what Sue Ann has done to them but barely have time to react as the house is on fire and need to find a way out. Erica, knowing where Maggie would be, calls her coworker Stu for help and the two save the teenagers. Sue Ann attempts to throw Genie into the fire, blaming Erica for not stopping Ben from pulling the prank in school. Maggie stabs Sue Ann, saving Genie. The group goes outside and asks what has happened. Sue Ann watches them, particularly Andy who survived the stabbing and is lying down next to Maggie. Sue Ann walks upstairs and lies down next to Ben’s body, cuddling with it as the house burns.