The following horror analysis is based mostly on the plot twist of this movie, so if you are curious to watch it, better not read this until after you’ve done so. In this movie, an apparently overzealous mother (Mama, played by Joely Richardson) keeps her daughter sheltered in her farm where they both reside with her ill husband. Alas, on one stormy night, two men come asking for aid while on the run from the police, and their existence is placed in jeopardy.
From the outset, everything seems off in this farm, and the family it houses, and in the later part of the movie it is revealed the object of this horror analysis: a woman is kept in a drugged state strapped to a hospital bed in a room, where she is slowly both physically and mentally tortured by Mama.
Trapped in a sort of hell that one does wish to live in, the woman was responsible for the death of Mama’s family and is being continually punished for it, while being helpless to escape or have a moment of respite. She eventually begs for, and is granted, death by one of the intruders (Jack, played by Neil Linpow), the only possible way to escape this horror.
One of the most horrific and bleak concepts I’ve heard of as a “fate worse than death”, is the one of, simply not dying, being kept in a limbo state for years on end or even eternity. In fact, for a even more disturbing take on this subject, I suggest looking up the short story (or its’ videogame adaptation): I have no Mouth but I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison.
Death is natural and inevitable, but in this movie, the character, and the one who “helps” her, are bound to an endless cycle of torture, without any possibility of respite for as long as they live. And the one carrying or the torture is capable of keeping them alive as long as she wants to, due to her medical knowledge. Death seems to be the only escape, but what if it was impossible, then what respite or freedom could these characters aspire to due to the mutilation they have suffered?
I have no answer for that, but felt like this was subject worth speaking as I saw this movie recently and was truly horrified by this condition. Little Bone Lodge is a movie that really draws you in into a nightmare and stays after you’ve left the movie theatre.
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