The Terrible Mother

The Terrible Mother — Plot

In the kitchen of a Vermont farmhouse, four people come to sit around a table. The silence of solstice holds them together. Before a ritualized meal they each tell a story. Their stories are ominous, yet, as in the first OOBIELAND film (INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND), they are incomplete. Earlier, the titular mother has passed on her powers to a young woman. At the close of the film, this young woman enters the farmhouse and, with final simplicity, restores the old order.

• Release date
• June 22, 1972
• Runtime
• 25 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Walter Ungerer