‘Umma’ Director Iris K. Shim Discusses Messy Mother-Daughter Relationships

Director Iris K. Shim’s feature film debut Umma takes the tried-and-true horrors of motherhood and spins them into something new. Instead of the typical white family, though, Shim places a Korean-American woman and her daughter at the film’s center. Shim is helping push forward a movement where horror recognizes more than the white experience, something the genre has desperately needed for decades.
In Umma (the Korean word for “mother) follows Amanda (Oh) and her daughter (Fivel Stewart) living a quiet life on an American farm. But when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.
We sat down with Shim to discuss messy mothers in horror, viewing that from a Korean-American lens, and more.
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