Name: Mārama at the Rio Theatre
Start: 2026-06-01T18:30:00-07:00
Location: 1660 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V5N 1W1

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From director Taratoa Stappard, and starring Ariāna Osborne and Toby Stephens comes the year’s most visually stunning Gothic Horror. Far from home and haunted by visions, a Māori woman uncovers gruesome secrets inside an English manor. A bold, unsettling gothic tale of identity, memory, and colonial reckoning. With Umi Myers, Erroll Shand, Jordan Moone.
1859, North Yorkshire. When young Maori woman Mary arrives from New Zealand, she’s trapped as governess to a wealthy whaler’s granddaughter. Living among her ancestors’ stolen artifacts, she uncovers Sir Cole’s horrific crimes. Embracing her Matakite powers, Mary becomes Māramaand must save Anne and avenge her family by destroying him.
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Grand Jury Prize: Scariest Feature Film, Overlook Film Festival
Official Selection: TIFF Palm Springs International Film Festival, AFI FEST, Chicago International Film Festival, SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia
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““Mārama,” a striking feature debut by Taratoa Stappard, bills itself as a Māori gothic and the combination works… a good ride with first-rate cinematography and production design.” (Los Angeles Times)
““It does what horror movies do best, twisting film form into a tool for dissection. Both of its subjects and the audience, the culture, the society that produced such nightmares and bore them on the silver screen for all to see and shudder.” (The Film Experience)
““Handsomely staged and delivers an energetic bloodlust that more haughty prestige films may have shied away from.” (Film Inquiry)
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Monday, June 1
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets at www.riotheatretickets.ca
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Mārama (Taratoa Stappard, 2026 / 89 mins / NR) 1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.
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