Mother

Mother (Madre, 2016) is a Chilean horror-thriller you can watch online on iFILM — the feature debut of Aaron Burns, turning a mother's anxiety into a slow nightmare.

Diana (Daniela Ramírez) is expecting her second child and barely coping with her first, Martín, a boy on the autism spectrum. Relief arrives as Luz, an older Filipino caregiver who reaches Martín almost instantly, and the house goes quiet for the first time. The calm doesn't last. Her son changes too fast, the nanny behaves strangely, and Diana grows convinced that what entered their home is no ordinary helper.

Burns roots the dread in the domestic — exhaustion, postpartum fear, the unease of trusting a stranger in the nursery. There's little showy supernatural spectacle; the tension is pure mounting paranoia. One for fans of quiet, psychological horror over jump scares. Stream Mother (2016) online on iFILM.