But when deep-seated resentments and painful loss coincide and are brought to the surface, things get ugly fast.

Mother, May I?

Anyas insistence on giving her grieving boyfriend mushrooms feels sinister.

Emmett and Anya, played by actors Kyle Gallner and Holland Roden, stand in front of a window where a silhouette lurks, while she holds his head in her hands.

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Either Emmett’s fiancee is willfully psychologically tormenting him, or she’s been possessed by the supernatural.

Probe that masochism, babe.

The back-and-forth of this question creates a suffocating tension that mimics the environment the characters are trapped in.

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Its no surprise that he does it again inMother, May I?

Vannicelli created a complex portrait of anger and grief with the character of Emmett.

Tracys abandonment of Emmett cast a shadow over his entire life.

Emmett (Kyle Gallner) in ‘Mother, May I?'

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The film flirts with the Freudian implications, clearly aware of how disturbing the psychology of it is.

Gallners performance hinges on Roden, who functionally has to play two characters.

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Mother, May I?

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