Film
Mom and Dad
- Director
- Brian Taylor
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 86 mins
Preposterously prolific Nicolas Cage‘s first film of 2018 is a comedy horror flick that permits him to unleash his full, hugely entertaining box of OTT face-pulling tricks. It’s written and directed by Brian Taylor, who previously directed Cage in the ridiculous Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
The straightforward story has Cage and the ever-excellent, underused Selma Blair as ordinary, average, mildly dissatisfied identikit suburban American parents. A mysterious force then starts to compel them – and every other parent in the US – to turn on their own progeny and slaughter them with extreme prejudice. Just beneath the bloodlust, there’s a sly satire about middle-class family tensions. But let’s not get carried away here: this is primarily a gore-drenched B-movie funfest. The fact that the ever-growing ranks of the Easily Offended have been out in force to insist that there’s nothing funny about parents killing their children makes it even more enjoyable. Go here for our full review.
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