Goodnight Mommy
As if the title isn’t creepy enough, just wait for the storyline. Goosebumps don’t even begin to cut it with this Austrian horror film that follows the story of a mother who has returned to her isolated lakeside house after facial surgery and her twin sons. The film pushes the audience’s focus on the mother, whilst inadvertently distracting us from the behavior of her boys, Elias and Lukas.
The fact that the mother is bandaged so intensely already spooks the audience, but that isn’t the only thing. As the film goes on, we discover that her son Lukas passed away a while ago and that her other son, Elias, was seeing his twin in a hallucinate state as a way of coping with his death. Seeing that the film is in German, this might not actually be considered an Easter egg at all, as the mother repeatedly refers to the boys using the word ‘du’, the singular word for ‘you’.