By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The folk-horror festival favorite becomes widely visible today.
MOTHER OF FLIES, the latest feature from the Adams Family, begins streaming today on Shudder. John Adams, Zelda Adams and Toby Poser wrote and directed the film, and also star along with Lulu Adams; the film has won raves (including ours) at festivals including Montreal’s Fantasia, where it was the first American movie in the fest’s history to win the Cheval Noir Award for Best Film. The synopsis: “MOTHER OF FLIES follows Mickey [Zelda Adams], a young woman facing a deadly diagnosis who heads into the woods with her father [John Adams] seeking dark magic at the hands of a mysterious recluse named Solveig [Poser]. For three days, Mickey endures Solveig’s extreme rituals of death magic. But every cure has its cost, and every curse is another’s gift. As buried secrets claw their way to the surface, the veil between the living and the dead begins to unravel, and Mickey finds herself facing dark truths that only the dead and the dying can know.”
