Happy Mother's Day everyone!
You too can celebrate that special lady in your life by watching this traumatic tromatic ode to a mamma's love. Ruth Ross is Mom, doing her best to raise two backwards backwoods brothers Ike and Addley. Sure they have the occasional lapse into homicide, torture and assault, but boys will be boys, and Momma makes sure to focus on the positives, providing fine helpings of liver, daily exercise and even some culture in the form of the ever present blaring TV set.
Directed by (brother of Lloyd) Charles Kaufman collaborating on the script with Warren Leight who would later become a mainstay of the Dick Wolf Law & Order franchise, this is one perverted piece of fuckery. At it's best it is a Texas Chainsaw Massacre of the reaganomics era, with set design that focuses not on the macabre ritualistic totems of leatherface, but pop cultural ephemera given a grime infested coating of delirium.
At it's worse, it's goofball schlock, but despite plenty of nasty edges there is a comedic energy present within the familial trio that makes this worth a watch.
And perhaps the greatest ever instance of product placement through the use of Draino in a very memorable scene.
Happy Mother's Day everyone!
You too can celebrate that special lady in your life by watching this traumatic tromatic ode to a mamma's love. Ruth Ross is Mom, doing her best to raise two backwards backwoods brothers Ike and Addley. Sure they have the occasional lapse into homicide, torture and assault, but boys will be boys, and Momma makes sure to focus on the positives, providing fine helpings of liver, daily exercise and even some culture in the form of the ever present blaring TV set.
Directed by (brother of Lloyd) Charles Kaufman collaborating on the script with Warren Leight who would later become a mainstay of the Dick Wolf Law & Order franchise, this is one perverted piece of fuckery. At it's best it is a Texas Chainsaw Massacre of the reaganomics era, with set design that focuses not on the macabre ritualistic totems of leatherface, but pop cultural ephemera given a grime infested coating of delirium.
At it's worse, it's goofball schlock, but despite plenty of nasty edges there is a comedic energy present within the familial trio that makes this worth a watch.
And perhaps the greatest ever instance of product placement through the use of Draino in a very memorable scene.