The Film "Umma" is in fact quite scary. It is as much a psychological thriller and social analysis as it is a "ghost" story.

How abuse is handed down across generations is one of its main themes.

The film is totally captivating and well worth the hour and 20 or so minutes.

Imho you'd enjoy it more if you come to watch this movie with the mindset of it being a drama with just a sprinkle of PG13 horror thrown in rather than expecting a full on horror film. Watching the trailer was enough to inform me that this won't be scary at all & reading the reviews kinda justified it. I watched it with this knowledge & it didn't disappoint. See it if you like Sandra Oh or some mother-daughter drama, but skip it if your main reason to watch is to get scared cause it's really not scary at all.

I was the only person in the theater and that should tell you something. It was a 1:30pm showing on a Friday but still ... The movie goes downhill right after the first scene and never gains momentum after that. The rest of it is a flashback to what had occurred years earlier but it never comes back to explain what happened in that first scene. Sandra Oh was Sandra Oh but she did not have much to work with here.

This movie was like an extended version of the Progressive Insurance commercials about growing up to be your parent (because this is about the 'mother'). There was maybe 1 scary moment in the entire movie.

The movie focused more on the living mother/daughter dynamic and a culture that was being ignored until it was forced upon them. Truly a waste of time and money.