Directed by Clive Tonge. Written by Tonge and Jonathan Frank. Starring Olga Kurylenko, Craig Conway, Javier Botet, Rosie Fellner, Lance E. Nichols and Ted Johnson.
Plot: a criminal psychologist investigates the mysterious strangling death of a man in bed.
Mara opens with a man dying in his sleep at the hands of a sleep demon (Botet). His wife is blamed, so they take her away from her little girl and lock her up. But then the psychiatrist, Kate (Kurylenko) begins having sleep paralysis and swears she sees something. This causes her to start believing the woman she helped to put away. Sort of.
The problem with Kate and the movie in general, is that she and the movie are very uneven. Kate is so hypocritical as a character. One minute she believes everything, the next minute she believes nothing, then back again. No one else believes anything either, except for one character, Doug (Conway), who sadly has a tragic ending you can see coming from a mile away.
While Mara was creepy as shit, there was no real innovation, we didn’t like the story and the ending sucked. We don’t recommend. Guess Netflix can’t be right about everything.
I suppose I could list my favorite movies here, but instead I'll give you a strange glimpse into what makes me TaraRomero.
1. I love comic books. I'm particularly into anything X-Men related and everything Harley Quinn.
2. My celebrity crush is Chris Evans (AKA Captain America). He's even more political than I am and he's not afraid to show it, plus he's really, really hot.
3. I love baseball and more importantly the Boston Red Sox, even though I've never even been to Boston. LOL
4. If I won the lottery tomorrow, after paying off my debts, I'd buy a smallish house somewhere in Southern California. I have got to get out of Texas.
5. My cartoon hero is Tina Belcher. Her and I share a soul.
6. I've been rescuing dogs since I was a teenager and firmly believe that fur babies belong inside and on the furniture.
7. I'm very much addicted to Hallmark Channel. I love their sappy movies, especially the Christmas ones.
8. I have 2 tattoos. An "E" on my ankle for my first lost fur baby. And a ladybug on my wrist named George after George Romero told me he liked it. May he RIP.
9. I'm a bit of a night owl. Not that I go out a lot, it's just that I prefer to be up at night and asleep during the day. I'm a vampire like that.
10. I have an unhealthy relationship with potato chips. My favorite are Herr's Sour Cream & Onion.
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