Mom and Dad's gonzo premise serves as an effective springboard for a wickedly dark, bloody comedy - and an appropriately over-the-top performance from Nicolas Cage. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. The moment you get a bit The movie isn't exactly horrifying or scary.
Parents need to know that Mom and Dad is a darkly funny horror movie in which parents (Selma Blair and Nicolas Cage) suddenly start trying to kill their children, with no explanation. This is a movie with such an infectious personality that it somehow manages to transcend a couple of tiresome initial mis-steps. The set-up is simple: Brent and Kendall are cartoonishly repressed parents.
Nicolas Cage sends back a messy and current message, filled with horror. What's really going on in Mom and Dad? The movie doesn't bother answering that, at all. What would happen if, for some inexplicable reason, parents everywhere began to murder their offspring? That's the subject of a horror film with Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair. In a suburban neighbourhood, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a nuclear family.
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Despite its A-List cast, this silly, violent B-movie slasher has the DIY look and feel of a student film. Almost ugly ultra-HD, a dated dubstep soundtrack and ketchup-splatter special effects might make a lesser film less appealing, but here these lowbrow touches work to Mom and Dad's advantage. In a suburban community, moms and dads, one after the other, mysteriously feel the irresistible impulse to attack and kill their own offspring.
Full review at ScreenCrush, featuring my call to Congress to enact legislation mandating Brian Taylor and Nic Cage make at least one movie every. Mom and Dad could have been like The Purge for parenthood, asking us to examine the state of the modern family from an unexpected angle. But the movie barely gets around to suggesting the question, never mind answering it or even exploring it. (Brent and Kendall's young son, Josh [Zackary. Mom and Dad review: "Runs out of puff before finding a satisfactory climax".