Mother's Day directed by Darren Lynn Bousman was a lesson for me to never judge a movie by its misleadingly generic title. It is now easily one of my favourite home invasion films I've ever seen. The premise is that a group of criminals led by their villainous mother (played by Rebecca De Mornay) take a group of friends hostage during their house warming party.
Rebecca De Mornay is phenomenal in this movie. She is poised, menacing, disarmingly polite and well, motherly. Her backstory is really unique and she has cemented herself as a horror icon in this role. Her performance is the primary reason that there is not another home invasion film quite like this.
While Mother's Day works within the expected tropes attached to the home invasion sub-genre, it manages to be really quite unique.
It speeds along at a breakneck pace and is extremely unpredictable at times and when it is violent it is horrifically brutal and graphic.
Mother's Day also manages to include fleeting moments of black comedy while never compromising its bleak and suspenseful tone.
I cannot recommend this enough, if this is a sub-genre you enjoy you need to watch this.
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