'Mother of Flies' Review: Witchy Horror Dissects the Beauty of Life and Death

Many moons ago, a literary internet witch suggested I watch 2021’s Hellbender, a film about a witchy mother-daughter duo that makes metal music in the woods. This introduction to the Adams Family — a familial clan of indie filmmakers known for their “homemade” supernatural folk horror works — was a splendid and remarkably spellbinding one (pun intended). Toby Poser, John Adams, Zelda Adams and Lulu Adams have a knack for making movies that feel raw and organic, but also precise and surgical, all while honoring their earthy woodland life in the Catskill Mountains. There’s clearly no stopping this DIY horror family from playing with blood in the depths of the forest (a description that hardly recognizes the family’s astonishing craft), and thank goodness for that. The family’s newest addition to its occult catalog is 2025’s Mother of Flies, a film that wraps its audience in a biophilic blanket in the midst of its profound and poetic exploration of life and death through a necromantic lens.

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