Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums out there doing an amazing job including my own Mum and my Wifey!
On this day last year I watched the 1980 straight up gonzo hillbilly Troma lunacy that is Charles (Brother of Lloyd) Kaufman's Mother's Day and today I watched the loose 2010 remake from many a later Saw sequel director Darren Lynn Bousman.
Jamie King and Frank Grillo play Beth and Daniel Sophapi (yes that is actually their character last name) whose house warming party is disrupted by gun toting previous owners the Koffin boys. Ike (Patrick John Flueger), Addley (Warren Kole) and bullet wound Johnny (Matt O'Leary) return home expecting to find a now foreclosed Mother (Rebecca De Mornay) and little sis Lydia (Karen Page), and make for mighty uncomfortable gatecrashers. Surely Mother will guide her children to do the right thing...for the right price.
Tone is always important with this kinda stuff. The original had some pretty horrible content too, but it was carried along with a sense of OTT redneck absurdist humour. The remake takes itself way too seriously and adds some pretty uncomfortable psychological torture and moral quandry elements. If I can't even stomach this I am definitely not ready for Funny Games.
Props for the Draino appearance though!
Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums out there doing an amazing job including my own Mum and my Wifey!
On this day last year I watched the 1980 straight up gonzo hillbilly Troma lunacy that is Charles (Brother of Lloyd) Kaufman's Mother's Day and today I watched the loose 2010 remake from many a later Saw sequel director Darren Lynn Bousman.
Jamie King and Frank Grillo play Beth and Daniel Sophapi (yes that is actually their character last name) whose house warming party is disrupted by gun toting previous owners the Koffin boys. Ike (Patrick John Flueger), Addley (Warren Kole) and bullet wound Johnny (Matt O'Leary) return home expecting to find a now foreclosed Mother (Rebecca De Mornay) and little sis Lydia (Karen Page), and make for mighty uncomfortable gatecrashers. Surely Mother will guide her children to do the right thing...for the right price.
Tone is always important with this kinda stuff. The original had some pretty horrible content too, but it was carried along with a sense of OTT redneck absurdist humour. The remake takes itself way too seriously and adds some pretty uncomfortable psychological torture and moral quandry elements. If I can't even stomach this I am definitely not ready for Funny Games.
Props for the Draino appearance though!
