Review: Octavia Spencer stars in the horror film "Ma," which goes in all kinds of unexpected directions. It's weird, messy and compelling.

Octavia Spencer plays the title character in this new horror movie.

Tate Taylor's thriller might be about a group of party-hungry teens, but the adults steal the show.

Anyone who walks into a theater to see “Ma” knows exactly the kind of…

Review: Mediocre effort held together with chewing gum and bloodied sticking plaster

“Ma,” Spencer and Taylor’s fifth project together, should not be mistaken for being a contribution to the genre of black horror.

The films exhibit a tragic logic that dovetails with the real-life revelations of #MeToo, but neither is constructed with anything resembling the courageousn...

After a career often spent in roles of kind caretakers, Octavia Spencer sinks her teeth into the part of a woman who draws a group of teenagers into her base...

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

There is a certain kind of horror movie in which every character involved is basically an asshole, and hello, let's talk about Ma. SPOILERS FOR MA FOLLOW Pra...

The thrills come extra cheap and late in Tate Taylor’s Ma, a horror movie torn between its campiness and compassion.

"Ma" follows a lonely middle-aged woman who befriends a group of rambunctious teens.

Director Tate Taylor relies on a few throwaway scenes involving the film’s only other black character to carry vague gestures toward racial politics withou...

Tate Taylor’s new Blumhouse vehicle is a lesson in why genre movies need style.

The Octavia Spencer–led slasher flick places the mammy archetype in a horror context, to mixed results.