-New Urban FILM- No Typecasting Here: Academy Award Winner Octavia Spencer Flexes Her Acting Muscles In Unexpected Ways for The New Psycho- Thriller, "MA."

Actress Octavia Spencer stretches her wings and tries something new in the new psycho-thriller, "MA".

Octavia Spencer during the press run for her
2016 film, "HIDDEN FIGURES".

We've known her as loving mother figures and sassy sidekick girlfriends. We've even seen her portray a heavenly creature on earth to help questioning souls ponder the meaning of life. Her 2011 portrayal as a 1960s housekeeper in "The Help" earned her an Oscar, and made her one of the most well known African American actresses in the world. This spring, Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer tackles an entirely new film genre in a role practically unheard of for black lead actresses, as she becomes the antagonist villain in the new psychological horror thriller, "Ma."

In a role that may remind some of the Annie Wilkes character played by Kathy Bates in the film Misery,  Spencer reunites with "The Help" director Tate Taylor to play Sue Ann Davis, a lonely spinster in the midwest. The premise of the film as detailed by Universal Pictures,

""The story follows Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer), a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie (Diana Silvers), a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting if younger, friends of her own. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her own. But there are some house rules: One of the kids has to stay sober. Don't curse. Never go upstairs. And call her "Ma." But as Ma's hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare, and Ma's place goes from the best place in town to the worst place on earth."

Check out the UK film trailer for "Ma" below. Suffice it to say, it's unlike any role we've ever imagined for the always diplomatic, ladylike Alabama native.

Stay tuned for the latest news on German theater dates for "MA" and other films featuring your favorite actors & actresses in upcoming posts from NUY 40+ CINEMA.