Director David F. Sandberg Will Unleash Some Cryogenic Family Horror in MOMMY’S HOME

Imagine trying to raise a family only to have your cryogenically frozen mother thawed out and move into your house. That sounds like the setup for one seriously twisted family reunion, and it’s the premise of David F. Sandberg’s next psychological horror movie.

Sandberg has signed on to direct Mommy’s Home for Lionsgate, working from a screenplay by James Morosini. The movie follows “a young dad whose family life becomes terrifyingly unhinged when his cryogenically preserved mom is unfrozen and sent to live with him.”

There’s plenty of room for Sandberg to have fun with a story like this. Bringing a dead parent back through cryogenic preservation already raises all kinds of creepy questions before you even get to whatever causes this family’s life to spiral out of control.

Psychological horror mixed with a seriously dysfunctional mother-son relationship could make for something wonderfully messed up.

Sandberg broke out with Lights Out, which began as his viral YouTube horror short before he expanded the concept into the 2016 feature film.

He later jumped into the DC universe to direct Shazam! and its 2023 sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods. He returned to horror with 2025’s Until Dawn, Sony’s movie adaptation of the popular horror video game.

He’s also keeping his horror schedule pretty damn busy. Sandberg is attached to the sci-fi horror project Below for Netflix and Atomic Monster, along with A Little Slice of Hell for Paramount.

Morosini has spent much of his career as an actor and recently appeared in Netflix’s It’s What’s Inside as well as Steve Pink’s sci-fi thriller Terrestrial. Mommy’s Home will be his second feature screenwriting credit. His first was the 2022 dark comedy I Love My Dad, which he wrote, directed, and starred in.

Mommy’s Home is being produced by Craig Flores, Dawn Olmstead, and Anonymous Content. Sandberg and Lotta Losten are also producing through their company Mångata.

The concept for Mommy’s Home has the potential to get seriously weird, especially with Sandberg bringing his horror sensibilities to a story about a mother who comes back from cryogenic preservation and proceeds to wreck her son’s family life.

Sometimes family visits are scary enough without anybody having to be defrosted first.