• MotherLand

  • Kevin Coughlin & Ryan Grassby
  • Set Up
  • Horror
  • Fantasy
  • 2020
  • 76.9
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Market: Fri, 31 Jul 2020Sold: Thu, 27 Aug 2020
Executive: Aaron Janus, Chelsea Kujawa
Producer: Emily Morris
AgentMatt Snow & Mark Ross (Paradigm) , Tom Spriggs (The Coronel Group)
Production21 Laps Entertainment
StudioLionsgate
Lionsgate won this horror spec in a competitive situation.
Isolated in a rustic cabin deep in the woods, a mother and her twin sons eke out a pitiful existence while clinging desperately to their homestead to protect them from The Evil that surrounds them. Think A QUIET PLACE meets HEREDITARY.
Twin brothers Nolan and Samuel who have been raised by their mother to believe that they are the only people left in the world and who have never left their square acre of property, must discover for themselves whether what their mother has always taught them to believe is true and if a menacing Evil is really waiting for them beyond the property line.
A mother attempts to protect her two sons from the deadly supernatural forces of “the Evil” by isolating them in a rural cabin – until one of her sons begins to question what the real evil force is.
A mother and her twin sons, who live in an isolated cabin within the forest and must fight The Evil that surrounds them while staying close to their house.
Film
Family, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Dark, Demons, Ghost, Mental Illness, Suicide, Psychological Thriller, Adolescence, Death, Evil, Grief, Mother, Mother/Son, Motherhood, Parent, Parenthood, Rural, Siblings, Suspenseful, Violence/Violent
104
R
Medium
M
Unspecified
14
Thin
A Quiet Place, Hereditary, The Babadook, Birdbox (2018), It Follows (2014), Run (2020), The Invisible Man (2020)
Present Day/A few weeks
Exterior/Interior of a house in the woods The Woods Helicopter
MOMMA (40) and her two twin sons, NOLAN (14) and SAMUEL (14), live isolated in the woods. Momma wake the boy up to get ready for a hunt. The family goes out but they are all connected to the house and one another with a thread. Their pet dog follows. Momma finds a target, but it turns out to be their dog. She then finds the remains of a corpse and ignores it. Nolan is making slack under the plum tree, Samuel tells him to get back. The thread accidentally snaps, leaving Samuel tumble down the hill, hit his head and become unconscious.
Momma rushes to the twin, but also witness a crazy woman lurking near the twins. The twin can't see the woman but Momma can.
The woman leaves, Momma and Nolan tends to Samuel's wound. They recite a small chant to clear themselves from the woman's influence.
Samuel is ok but Momma is furious with Nolan who messed around because he could've died back there. During dinner, she apologizes to the twins for her behavior and explains how The Evil can get them any time if they were to detach from the house with only one touch. She also explains that...