{"id":848943,"date":"2026-09-15T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848943\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:52:08","slug":"the-new-other-mommy-trailer-turns-a-ball-pit-into-an-ocean-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848943\/","title":{"rendered":"The New ‘Other Mommy’ Trailer Turns a Ball Pit Into an Ocean of Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first trailer for Other Mommy<\/a> was totally unnerving, giving us a peek at Jessica Chastain\u2019s dual role<\/a> as a regular human mother\u2014and a creature who exactly resembles a regular human mother, except for her tendency toward very creepy behavior. This new trailer, which leans into the film\u2019s behind-the-scenes connections to Obsession and Backrooms<\/a>, doubles down on the parental freak show.<\/p>\n

Two words: bubble bath. Two more words: ball pit. Watch, and be glad you\u2019re not a little kid realizing for the first time that adults aren\u2019t always who they say they are.<\/p>\n

Unlike 2026 horror sensations Obsession and Backrooms, the James Wan-produced Other Mommy has literary origins; it\u2019s based on the book Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman, who also wrote Bird Box. Rob Savage, whose previous horror credits include Host and The Boogeyman, directs the Oscar-winning Chastain, with Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid) playing the girl who realizes her mom\u2019s doppelganger isn\u2019t so \u201cnice\u201d after all. In fact, she has deeply malevolent intentions, and she\u2019s not afraid to crash a kiddie play zone to try and get what she wants.<\/p>\n

The rest of the cast includes Jay Duplass, Dichen Lachman (Severance), Arian Moayed, and Karen Allen (the Indiana Jones\u00a0films).<\/p>\n

Other Mommy arrives in theaters October 9. Will you be checking out this tale of smotherly love?<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out the best movies and TV shows<\/a> to stream this month and all the upcoming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books<\/a> that should be on your radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for Other Mommy was totally unnerving, giving us a peek at Jessica Chastain\u2019s dual role…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,4597,206,14496,331013],"class_list":["post-848943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-jessica-chastain","tag-movies","tag-other-mommy","tag-rob-savage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}