Mother's Day

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Mother's Day

This movie is slow at parts, but when you hit 'Exercise time boyyyys!' you'll be glad you got it. This is one of the funniest sequences i've ever seen. It shows the two brothers doing these completely ridiculous training drills, climaxing when Mother says to Ike - 'Get the big one!' and Ike then grabs a huge watermelon, hoists it over his head and in a fit of rage, smashes it. This is all to the tune of a B-movie horror rendition of the Rocky theme song. I give it a 7 out of 10 A classic for B grade horror lovers

When I saw that Troma produced this, I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch this. While I enjoy their films, I wasn't in the mood for something as silly as those usually are. Mother's Day, thankfully, isn't quite like any other Troma film I've seen. It's mean, bleak, and nasty at times, but also has just enough of a sense of humor to keep the movie from being unbearable. In the film, three girlfriends reconnect for a weekend of camping and are captured by two redneck brothers and their psychotic mother who want to use them for their own sick and twisted games. When Mother's Day wants to get nasty, it goes all the way in. The disturbing moments stick with you and make you feel lousy and disgusted. You really root for these girls to overcome their troubles and get revenge which makes the final act so much more satisfying.

Abbey,Jackie and Trina have been close friends since their college days and they decide to celebrate their tenth class reunion by going camping in the woods of rural New Jersey;however their vacation time quickly turns into nightmare filled with rape,abuse and terror as they are captured by two depraved thugs.Ike and Addley live in a garishly decorated house deep in the woods,where they strictly obey the instructions of their aged Mother-a vicious psychopath who goads her boys into acts of rape and murder.When one of the women is killed by Ike and Addley,the other two escape and they plot a gruesome revenge.This cult classic combines extreme violence with absurdist humor and offers its share of depravity including vicious beatings and rape.It's not as nasty as "I Spit on Your Grave" or "House on the Edge of the Park",but still packs a punch.8 out of 10.

A horror comedy that pulled it off. Three college chums, all ladies, head to the woods for a reunion and step into a low-budget, female version of 'Deliverance.' A young Fred Coffin and 'Billy Ray McQuade' (he was one of Dudley Smith's sycophants in L.A. Confidential too) play a couple of backwoods cretins that torture, humiliate, and kill for their mama. The title was nothing more than an attempt to cash in on all the holiday based slasher flicks that were all the rage at the time. Did anyone notice the subversiveness? The anti-consumerism message that sneaked in there years before the late great Bill Hicks was doing it. This movie won't go away. That's a good thing. It deserves to be as famous as Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street. If you find it, check it out.

This film is certainly not for everybody, but it is actually so refreshing to see a movie that is done in this way. It is exploitation at it's finest. It is comedy at it's most tragic! A simple plot mixed with darn good acting, and impressive makeup effects...you really can't go wrong. In my opinion, while still in the same vein as Last House on the Left and I Spit on your Grave, it is not as good. Spit being the best of the 3, but each of them has something to offer. If you're not sure you can watch it, let me give you this scene as an example...one deranged man rapes a woman while his brother takes Kodak Polaroids, and their mother instructs them and leads them on...sound bad, yeah, but take it for what it is. Silly, odd disturbing nonsense. But it was more a "mood" movie, based around the characters and settings vs. the horror of rape and disturbing shots. This kind of horror sound like your thing? Then you're in luck, it's worth it.