Mother's Day

Ian West4.0

Opens with a snake oil salesmen preaching his self help group (called Ego lol) and sweet old lady bait and switch before a picture montage gives way to what feels like a Beverly Hills swinger party and eventually, an excursion into a backwoods rape revenge slasher pop culture satire.Love how genuinely funny the first act of this movie is, and how Every old lady for a 25-30 year period looked like Ruth Gordon from Rosemary’s Baby and that’s a big mood. This was one of those movies I watched A LOT while I was earning my horror sea legs back in the day, the Jersey factor was a big part of that... and listen... I’ve travelled all over this country, and some parts of New Jersey are just as redneck hillbilly as places I’ve been in Alabama and there’s definitely some scary shit in this state... especially way up north and down south, some real nightmare revenant off the grid folk that could make your ass disappear into the wilderness. Yikes. Anyways, Love all the location spots, the pop culture hell house that seems like it would be an east coast vacation spot for the Sawyer clan, the hammer to the balls kill, the electric meat carver mayhem, and all the weirdo nutso family dynamics at play here.I love grimy tasteless sicko hillbilly family TCM backwood nightmare shit, and if you set it in New Jersey and use a little satire psycho neckbrace granny and her deformed sister that channels Jersey devil mojo for that final shot than I’ll probably love it forever, which is exactly how I feel about this lurid trash swill.Ear in a box!

c h r i s3.5

I'm so proud of my boys -- they never forget their mama.“I’m a sick woman! I’m a sick woman!”Troma backwoods hillbilly horror, set in the New Jersey wilderness and it’s everything you’d expect from a Kaufman! Sleazy, mean-spirited and has that 80s low-budget full-on exploitation charm. Three long time friends venture out on their yearly trip full of skinny dipping, reminiscing about their high school days, until they’re met face to face with two hillbilly sons that’ll do anything to win over their mothers love and affection, you think they’re bad, wait til you meet Mother; the brains of the operation. A grimy, often tasteless, rape/revenge flick that has one hell of a retribution sequence. Absolutely not my favorite Troma film but its Deliverance meets I Spit on your Grave and that to me makes for the most trashy Mother’s Day watch.Happy Mother’s Day!💐

Tony the Terror4.0

I had never seen this before last night, but I have seen the remake quite a few times because I looooove Rebecca DeMornay and I think these are both great movies with two incredibly different tones and that just often seems like the best way to do a remake, right? Like the 2006 Black Christmas!A crazy mom and her 2 very disturbed sons terrorize people in their creepy backwater house in the middle of the woods in this strange mix of Deliverance, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and any slapstick comedy of the time and it is very trashy and I loved it! I remember seeing the cover art as a kid at Blockbuster (my local store oddly did not have this) and of course back then I didn't know this was mostly a comedy so I was always horrified by how brutal and exploitative it looked. Plus, anything that portrayed mothers in a negative light was very upsetting to me because I was such a total goddamn Motherboy! Kid me probably would have loved this had he given it a chance. Instead, I get to discover it as an unseen and overlooked gym at the ripe fully grown age of none-of-your-goddamn-business!It's streaming on Shudder along with both The Dentist movies and a few other gems so Shudder is really the place to be this month in case you didn't know. See you at the party assuming they let you in. Me? I'm VIP all the way darling, don't be silly!