15 Awesome Movies To Watch This Summer (That Aren't Blockbusters)

8. Ma

Ma Octavia Spencer
Universal Pictures

Release Date: May 31

The Plot: After reluctantly buying alcohol for some desperate teens, loner Sue Ann aka "Ma" (Octavia Spencer) attaches herself to the kids, and her initial friendliness quickly becomes creepy...then deadly.

Why It's Going To Be Awesome: Octavia Spencer looks like she's having the time of her life in this horror film from Tate Taylor (The Help, The Girl on the Train).

Spencer has a habit of being typecast, so it's refreshing to see her in a role that completely upends her usual shtick, and with a supporting cast including Juliette Lewis, Allison Janney and Luke Evans, it could be yet another demented, smart indie horror for the Blumhouse Productions label.

The first trailer suggests a fine mix of horror and black comedy, and Spencer is firing on all cylinders in the very least.

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