Joseph Dean Martinez in Maternal (2026)

Maternal

20265m
ShortHorror

After the passing of his mother, a man returns to her home to confront a past he's spent his life trying to outrun. Alone in the home, fragments of childhood memories surface: intimate, unsettling, and impossible to reconcile. As the night deepens, the boundary between memory and reality begins to fracture, and something freshly buried refuses to stay away. Maternal is a psychological horror about control, trauma, and the lingering grip of a love that was never safe.

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5m
Released
2026

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Release year: 2026

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After the passing of his mother, a man returns to her home to confront a past he's spent his life trying to outrun. Alone in the home, fragments of childhood memories surface: intimate, unsettling, and impossible to reconcile. As the night deepens, the boundary between memory and reality begins to fracture, and something freshly buried refuses to stay away. Maternal is a psychological horror about control, trauma, and the lingering grip of a love that was never safe.

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