31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 12 - Mom and Dad
Mom and Dad
86 mins.
Dir. Brain Taylor
USA/2017
Continuing in our Nicholas Cage double feature is another Crazy Cage low budget horror film. This one is much more light hearted but still a violent flick. This film turns the tables, most of the time it is kids gone bad attacking their parents. In Mom and Dad it is the parents turn to try and kill their children.
Selma Blair and Nicholas Cage are mom and dad to a bitch of a daughter in high school and her snot nosed younger brother. Seems Crazy Cage has had a little mid-life crisis at one point settling into his daddy role as seen in some over the top Crazy Cage doing what he does best flashbacks and Bitch daughter thinks mom has no life and should stay out of hers. One day something happens that isn't really explained, some kind of transmission or signal gets out and through the TV maybe or something, I don't know it is all very vague, but it makes parents want to kill their kids. It doesn't make adults want to kill children, it only makes parents want to kill their children, not other people's children. Ok interesting enough twist we'll go with that.
Yeah and that's about it. You have the whole learning process of the kids figuring out what is happening, then hiding from their parents and their parents chasing them wanting to kill them. Various scenes of random parents hunting down their kids, like a horde of parents waiting at the gates of school stalking their kids or fathers staring down their new born babies in the hospital in an attempted infanticide scene. But nothing really overly gory and nothing to make you stand up and cheer.
Another cat and mouse set up of a movie. Bitch daughter's boyfriend gets a wire hanger through his cheek, Selma Blair gets shot in the arm and Crazy Cage gets stabbed repeatedly, but nothing excessive in this dark comedy and that may have been part of the problem. As outlandish as the premise is, it really didn't take things far enough to make this memorable. It has it's humorous moments, especially with a cameo by Lance Hendrickson, but luckily this movie is short enough and to the point to keep you somewhat interested. It's amusing to listen to Selma Blair and Crazy Cage talk about how they want to kill their children like they would with any regular conversation. Overall the movie was just missing that extra punch and it never explains or ties anything up in the end. It just kind of ends and you are left thinking, I guess that was ok. I wonder what is on next?
Dead Kennedy's, "I Kill Children" this is not. Up against Crazy Cage's other double feature movie from last night, Mandy wins out as a far superior film even though these two are vastly different. If you like your comedy like I like my clothes then you may want to check this one out. For me, I have bigger fish to fry, which leads me into tomorrow night's movie.
Mom and Dad
86 mins.
Dir. Brain Taylor
USA/2017
Continuing in our Nicholas Cage double feature is another Crazy Cage low budget horror film. This one is much more light hearted but still a violent flick. This film turns the tables, most of the time it is kids gone bad attacking their parents. In Mom and Dad it is the parents turn to try and kill their children.
Selma Blair and Nicholas Cage are mom and dad to a bitch of a daughter in high school and her snot nosed younger brother. Seems Crazy Cage has had a little mid-life crisis at one point settling into his daddy role as seen in some over the top Crazy Cage doing what he does best flashbacks and Bitch daughter thinks mom has no life and should stay out of hers. One day something happens that isn't really explained, some kind of transmission or signal gets out and through the TV maybe or something, I don't know it is all very vague, but it makes parents want to kill their kids. It doesn't make adults want to kill children, it only makes parents want to kill their children, not other people's children. Ok interesting enough twist we'll go with that.
Yeah and that's about it. You have the whole learning process of the kids figuring out what is happening, then hiding from their parents and their parents chasing them wanting to kill them. Various scenes of random parents hunting down their kids, like a horde of parents waiting at the gates of school stalking their kids or fathers staring down their new born babies in the hospital in an attempted infanticide scene. But nothing really overly gory and nothing to make you stand up and cheer.
Another cat and mouse set up of a movie. Bitch daughter's boyfriend gets a wire hanger through his cheek, Selma Blair gets shot in the arm and Crazy Cage gets stabbed repeatedly, but nothing excessive in this dark comedy and that may have been part of the problem. As outlandish as the premise is, it really didn't take things far enough to make this memorable. It has it's humorous moments, especially with a cameo by Lance Hendrickson, but luckily this movie is short enough and to the point to keep you somewhat interested. It's amusing to listen to Selma Blair and Crazy Cage talk about how they want to kill their children like they would with any regular conversation. Overall the movie was just missing that extra punch and it never explains or ties anything up in the end. It just kind of ends and you are left thinking, I guess that was ok. I wonder what is on next?
Dead Kennedy's, "I Kill Children" this is not. Up against Crazy Cage's other double feature movie from last night, Mandy wins out as a far superior film even though these two are vastly different. If you like your comedy like I like my clothes then you may want to check this one out. For me, I have bigger fish to fry, which leads me into tomorrow night's movie.
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