The Moogai
( dir. Jon Bell
)
Australia
:
Causeway Films
No Coincidence Media
,
2020
20718873
2020
single work
film/TV
horror
'The Moogai is a psychological horror about a young mother, Sarah, who becomes terrorised by a malevolent spirit she believes is trying to take her children. Sarah’s husband Matt desperately wants to believe her but as she becomes more unstable, Matt is increasingly concerned for the safety of their family.'
Source: No Coincidence Media (http://www.nocoincidencemedia.com/the-moogai/). (Sighted: 5/11/2020)
'Filmmaker Jon Bell says his horror film The Moogai (2024) is a love letter to the Aboriginal women in his family.'
'Jon Bell’s bold and daring film about a mother who is stalked by a child-stealing bogeyman is a little underdeveloped'
'Isn’t raising one’s child supposed to be full of joy and laughter? Apparently not, according to the horror genre.'
'Isn’t raising one’s child supposed to be full of joy and laughter? Apparently not, according to the horror genre.'
'Jon Bell’s bold and daring film about a mother who is stalked by a child-stealing bogeyman is a little underdeveloped'
'Filmmaker Jon Bell says his horror film The Moogai (2024) is a love letter to the Aboriginal women in his family.'
'Expanded from his 2020 short of the same name, The Moogai is writer/director Jon Bell’s allegorical horror film about the Stolen Generation – the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families between 1910-1970 because of Australian governmental policy. This point is made in the opening scene when First Nations children must run and hide from two cops who have come to collect them. However, one child, hiding in a cave, is caught by The Moogai, a “boogeyman” that steals children, as her young sister Ruth (Aisha Alma) helplessly watches.' (Introduction)
