What is Umma (2022 movie)?
{{no sources|date=April 2022}} {{italictitle}} '''''Umma''''' (which means ''Mum'' in the Korean language) is a 2022 American [[supernatural]] [[horror movie]]. It is written and directed by Iris K. Shim and it stars [[Sandra Oh]], [[Fivel Stewart]], MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi, [[Odeya Rush]], and [[Dermot Mulroney]]. [[Sam Raimi]] serves as a producer on the film. The film follows Amanda (Oh), a single mother who lives with her daughter in a isolated farm being haunted by her mother's ghost. ''Umma'' was released in the United States on March 18, 2022 by [[Sony Pictures Releasing]]. The movie had mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, who liked Oh's performance and the movie's themes, but criticized its as [[cliché]], its screenplay, many [[jump scare]]s and no tension. ==Plot== Korean immigrant Amanda and her homeschooled daughter Chrissy “Chris” live on a rural farm, raising bees, selling honey, raising chickens, and living without modern technology as Amanda has an “allergic reaction” to electronics and electricity. She's upset to learn that Chrissy wants to leave the farm in order to pursue college, as Amanda had wanted her to remain on the farm. When Amanda receives the [[Cremation|cremated]] ashes of her recently deceased estranged mother, who she called Umma, in a suitcase from her uncle visiting her from [[Korea]], she is confronted with memories of her abusive childhood. Umma had been left to raise Amanda alone in the United States, unable to speak English and surrounded by those who did not understand or practice her culture. It is revealed that Amanda fabricated her “allergy” to electronics after being electrically shocked multiple times by Umma as punishment. When Amanda cut ties with her mother she also cut ties with her Korean heritage as a whole, including giving up her family name. As her uncle left, he shamed Amanda for abandoning her own mother and heritage, and for not teaching Chrissy Korean language and culture. Soon after the ashes arrive a vicious spirit appears, intent on claiming A