Mom Is Buggin’ in The Twisted Sundance Fairy Tale ‘In My Mother’s Skin’
Kenneth Dagatan’s Sundance feature In My Mother’s Skin may not be the most frightening horror film, but if your tastes veer more towards savage takedowns of wealthy complicity, it might be exactly your jam.
There’s certainly an embarrassment of riches for dark supernatural forces in the affluent splendor of an isolated mansion in the Philippines of 1945, where the young Tala (Felicity Kyle Napuli) and her family are hanging on by a thread. Rumors abound that her father has stolen Japanese gold, and her complicit countrymen are sniffing around, armed and eager for their share.
