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7. It Was All A Coping Mechanism - Goodnight Mommy
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's Goodnight Mommy is a film that spends so much time teasing you with one thing, only to pull the rug out from under you and deliver something entirely different.
In this 2014 picture, a mother returns home to her twin boys after she's had some plastic surgery carried out. With her face largely covered by bandages, and with her acting strangely, the twins start to suggest that this isn't actually their real mother, and instead it's an imposter posing as their ma.
From there, we see the duo of Elias and Lukas go to the extreme lengths of tying their "mother" to a bed, gluing her mouth together, allowing her to wet herself, and then they eventually superglue her to the living room floor as they demand she explains to them what has happened to their real mother.
The kicker here, is that this is their real mother - and the twist is that Lukas has actually been dead the entire time.
Having gone insane after the death of his brother, Elias had been imagining his twin brother at his side as a coping mechanism to deal with this loss. But by the time all is said and done, his grip on reality is so far gone that he ends up burning his mother alive, with his own fate left ambiguous by the time Goodnight Mommy draws to a close.