The Moogai Movie Summary (2024)

1. 'The Moogai' Review: A Limp Australian Horror Film Made of ...

  • 30 jan 2024 · Stories of Australia's “Stolen Generations” — Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families by a white government — fuel the central ...

  • The potent meaning and imagery behind Jon Bell’s tale of Aboriginal suffering, 'The Moogai,' fail to coalesce.

2. 'The Moogai' Review: Indigenous Trauma Meets Supernatural Horror

  • 21 jan 2024 · Writer-director Jon Bell's debut feature uses a predatory monster as an allegory for the Stolen Generations, Aboriginal children taken from their parents in ...

  • Writer-director Jon Bell’s debut feature uses a predatory monster as an allegory for the Stolen Generations, Aboriginal children taken from their parents in white assimilation programs.

3. Movie Review: 'The Moogai' Tries to Merge Folk Horror and the Real World

  • 1 dag geleden · Synopsis: A young Aboriginal couple brings home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn, as the baby's mother ...

  • THE MOOGAI has many strengths, but it is unclear how well they will translate to audiences outside Australia

4. THE MOOGAI Review: Indigenous Horror Triumphs! - Creepy Kingdom

5. 'The Moogai': Sundance Review - Screen Daily

  • 21 jan 2024 · Australia's past comes back to haunt a new mother in the latest from the producers of 'The Babadook'

  • Australia's past comes back to haunt a new mother in the latest from the producers of 'The Babadook'

6. The Moogai - Rotten Tomatoes

  • A young mother becomes increasingly unstable when she is terrorized by a malevolent spirit she believes is trying to take her children.

7. 'The Moogai' Review: Australian Social-Horror Is A Blunt Force ...

  • 22 jan 2024 · An exploration of the generational trauma surrounding the “stolen generations” of Aboriginal children by the Australian government.

  • Jon Bell's 'The Moogai,' is elevated horror about the trauma surrounding the "stolen generations" of Aboriginal children.

8. SXSW 2024 Review: THE MOOGAI, An Examination Of Indigenous ...

  • 10 mrt 2024 · The Moogai substitutes a child-stealing demon for the government in what could have been a powerful examination of the tragedy and its lingering ...

  • An Aboriginal demon steps in for the real-life enduring trauma of Australia’s “Stolen Generations” in Jon Bell’s debut feature, The Moogai. Government sponsored assimilation programs ripped tens of thousands of Aboriginal children from their families to be placed with white...

9. THE MOOGAI Horror Jon Bell - Bankside Films

  • Based on the award-winning short film, THE MOOGAI explores post-natal depression, transgenerational trauma and Australia's stolen generation.

  • A young Aboriginal couple have just had their first child, but what should be one of the happiest times in their lives turns to terror when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit she believes is trying to take her baby. Her husband Fergus desperately wants to believe her, but as she becomes more unstable he is increasingly concerned for the safety of their child. Is Sarah really being visited by a child-stealing spirit or is she the biggest threat to their family’s safety? Based on the award-winning short film, THE MOOGAI explores post-natal depression, transgenerational trauma and Australia’s stolen generation. But it is also a story of the value of children and the power of family.

10. 'The Moogai' Review — A Horror That Dies in the Shadow of 'The Babadook'

  • 26 jan 2024 · The Moogai falls short of being a truly scary or insightful horror film, relying on repetitive scares and lacking depth in its characters. · The ...

  • Another Sundance means another work of Australian horror with much on its mind.

11. The Moogai (2020) - The Screen Guide

  • Short film | 15mins | Completed ... An Aboriginal psychological horror, THE MOOGAI is the story of a family terrorised by a child-stealing spirit. WHERE TO WATCH.

  • An Aboriginal psychological horror, THE MOOGAI is the story of a family terrorised by a child-stealing spirit.

12. 'The Moogai' Sundance Review - The Monster is a Metaphor (Again)

  • 25 jan 2024 · Writer/Director Tilman Singer continues his streak of experimental high-concept horror with his sophomore effort, Cuckoo. The filmmaker boldly ...

  • Our review of Jon Bell's debut feature 'The Moogai', which just had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

13. The Moogai - Sydney Film Festival

  • Artfully weaving the story of Sarah's difficult family background into the nightmarish terror that begins to consume her, Bell delivers an eerie tale that ...

  • A malicious spirit enters the home of a young Indigenous couple with a newborn baby. Based on his SFF-winning short of the same name, writer-director Jon Bell’s striking feature debut arrives direct from SXSW and Sundance.

14. The Moogai, SFF review: beware the boogeyman | ScreenHub Australia

  • 11 jun 2024 · Implications are established by the powerful flashback sequence that bookends the film, an impressive sequence that could easily have merited ...

  • The horrors of the Stolen Generation manifest in The Moogai, a creeper where the creature is less important than the old scars it crawled through.

15. The Moogai - The Darwin International Film Festival

  • With special guest Mitch Stanley (Producer). The Moogai synopsis: Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby. But what ...

  • Presented by Darwin International Film Festival.Screening with short film, Clown, at Deckchair Cinema.With special guest Mitch Stanley (Producer).The Moogai synopsis:Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby. But what should be a joyous time of their lives becomes sinister when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby. Fergus, who can’t see it but desperately wants to believe her, grows increasingly worried as she becomes more unbalanced. Is the child-stealing spirit real or is she in fact the biggest threat to the safety of their family?Clown synopsis:Horror enthusiast Sami eagerly anticipates playing ‘serial killers’ with her sister, Jiya. But Jiya’s new best friend threatens their sisterly bonding time.

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