Munchausen (2013)

Directed by

Ari Aster

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

17 min

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 71 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy preparing to leave for college has an overprotective mother who will do anything to keep him at home. Her manipulation escalates to frightening extremes.

unsettlingtenseclaustrophobicmelancholicslow-burndisturbingsilent

What happens

Munchausen is a 2014 American silent short horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. The film stars Liam Aiken as a boy about to go off to college, and Bonnie Bedelia as his overprotective mother who goes to great lengths to keep him from leaving her. The film is named for the phenomenon of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, "a behavior pattern in which a caregiver deliberately exaggerates, fabricates, and/or induces physical, psychological, behavioral, and/or mental health problems in those who are in their care." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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