Ma (2019)

Ma is a 2019 American psychological horror film produced, co-written and directed by Tate Taylor. It stars Octavia Spencer, Juliette Lewis, Diana Silvers, Corey Fogelmanis, and Luke Evans.

Summary
A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn't get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The acting is awesome and well-performed, especially Octavia Spencer as Sue Ann/Ma.
 * 2) The idea of a secretly psychotic woman befriending teenagers and slowly becoming a creepy “mother figure” to them is pretty original. Almost similar to these  two  films.
 * 3) The cinematography is pretty decent.
 * 4) Interesting characters, such as Sue Ann and the teenagers she’s hosting at her house.
 * 5) Tate Taylor is shown to have great skills as a director.
 * 6) Many well executed and terrifying scenes, like the scene where Ma sews one of the teenagers mouths shut or when Ma runs over Mercedes while she’s casually going for a jog.
 * 7) There are also a few funny, serious and saddening moments throughout the movie.
 * 8) Ma (Sue Ann Ellington) herself is a genuinely spooky antagonist and gives off a very creepy vibe and her backstory is very tragic which led her to become the woman she is in the present.
 * 9) Nicely done story development.

Bad Qualities

 * It, unfortunately, doesn't take its story to its full potential.
 * 1) Ben Hawkins can be an unlikeable character when it was revealed to he was responsible for harassing Ma at school, many years ago. Thus, this forced her to consider people as "weak", and kidnaps teenagers for that.

Box office
Ma grossed $45.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $14.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $60.6 million, against a production budget of $5 million. In the United States and Canada, Ma was released alongside Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Rocketman, and was projected to gross around $20 million in its opening weekend. The film made $7.2 million on its first day, including $1.4 million from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $18.4 million, finishing fourth at the box office. The film made $7.8 million in its second weekend (dropping 54% and finishing in seventh), and then made $3.7 million in its third weekend.