Mother of Flies
Director: John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams Run Time: 92 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Featuring a post-screening Q&A with the Adams Family.
A cancer-stricken girl (Zelda Adams) and her widower father (John Adams) visit the woodland home of an eccentric healer (Toby Poser) in hopes that she’ll be able to rid the girl of her disease. But the reclusive woman is hiding a dark past that’s ready to haunt the present. Brooklyn Horror alums (WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS, BHFF 2023) and powerhouse indie filmmaking family members/co-directors the Adams Family, also the film’s trio of lead actors, have outdone themselves with this exceptional work of personal intimacy and first-class creepiness, delivering their best film to date that will both haunt your dreams and leave you emotionally floored. —Matt Barone