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		List Price: $14.98		Label: Revolver Entertainment Salesrank: 41313 Released: May 5, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
One of the most disturbing shockers to emerge in recent years, "Mum & Dad" will leave the toughest horror fan gasping in shock. When Lena, a young Polish immigrant working as an airport office cleaner, misses her last bus home, she accepts an offer of help from friendly co-worker Birdie, who lives nearby with her "adoptive" parents. Knocked unconscious after arriving at the house, Lena soon finds herself imprisoned in a suburban house of horrors, a living nightmare of torment and terror. Designated a "Mommy's Girl," Lena's only options appear to be becoming part of the insane family -- or dying.

Mum and Dad Reviews:
what kind of movie do you expect for $200,000?
2009-11-02 - In the extras on this disc the producer says that this movie was made for less than $200,000 and in a very short amount of time (I think he said they shot it in a week). If you like movies like Hostel, then you will probably like this movie. It has graphic violence and gross special effects. If you buy movies like this looking for a dominant personalty to completely subjegate another person and break their will, then this movie isn't for you. The girls will is never really broken. Which is apparent in how the movie ends.

Absolutely brilliant!
2009-08-25 - "Mum and Dad". What a great movie! Showing how bad life can be in a seriously dysfunctional family! Something of an understatement here when given the kind of 'family' involved.
Polish immigrant worker at an airport finds herself stranded for the night in her work colleague's home and ends up staying much longer than expected, being held captive and made to live as part of the mad family set-up, with ma and pa and the work colleague and her brother, whom never speaks a word throughout the entire movie. (No doubt he's been too traumatised by the goings-on to ever find his voice again!).

Apparently the director wanted a British version of a "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" type movie, but in my view he succeeds in making a far superior film to that old cult classic, which I found myself quickly bored with owing to the tedious, nonstop screaming of Marilyn Chambers, the 'heroine' of TCM.
In fact, in my opinion, "Mum and Dad" is better than all of the TCM movies (including the remake) and Hostel movies put together. It is far more interesting, and believable. It has realistic and credible effects, nothing OTT silly like the hanging eyeball sequence in the first "Hostel" film, an effect that was frankly ludicrous and destroyed any credibility the movie had had up until then. I had found myself soon bored with "Hostel" anyway. Not so with "Mum and Dad" which managed to keep my interest absorbed throughout.

Unlike the tiresome screaming of Chambers in TCM, which only served to make the movie irritating, our heroine in "Mum and Dad" makes you root for her all the way. This girl used her intelligence to think of cunning ways to extricate herself from the horrendous situation, instead of resorting to mindless screaming like Chambers did in "Chainsaw". (Though admittedly, this one would not have been able to make much of a noise, as she'd been injected to silence her voice, at least at first).

The movie also has a great theme tune, a haunting. traditional song called "900 Miles" sung by Gemma Ray. You get to hear it a lot on the DVD's menu.

The DVD also boasts some interesting extras, including the director's admission that the movie only cost £100,000 to make. Which, in my estimation makes this film even more of an achievement.
There are interviews with most of the leading cast, though strangely minus one with our heroine, making me wonder if perhaps she had declined to be interviewed, as it seemed a little odd that the main character was not asked to give some input into the interviews.

To sum up, a great effort, and well done to all concerned. A triumph!


Revenge flick with Repugnant content of a brutal sexual nature
2009-08-12 - Mum and Dad is one of those films that I feel guilty watching because it's so repulsive in nature and content.
From the beginning when the adopted siblings meet the "new girl"while cleaning the airport bathroom and they show a close up shot of a toilet and stall assaulted with fecal matter splattered everywhere I knew I was in for a sick ride.
Some of the scenes were so repulsive that it felt like really sick fetish porn"case and point" when Dad was masterbating with recently butchered flesh and they panned the camera on it after the deed was done and you could see semen flowing out of the folded up flesh"EEK".
Or the human christmas decorations,one with a big hole cut out of his torso so the candle would light it up real pretty inside.
Dad in drag was pretty disturbing too,it was his time to play mommy and have fun with "mommy's girl".Dad's bare butt was enough to disturb me for days,it looked like a huge out of shape womans butt"but on a man".
The only satisfaction I got from this movie was the revenge element that ensues at the end.But I still felt like taking a bath.If you like sick ,gross,disturbing images and sexual torture this movie is for you.If not skip it.I give it 3 stars because you're getting exactly what you are signing up to watch.

I'm on the fence on this one... shocking, certainly... but...
2009-06-10 - Well... I admit this film surprised me. I wasn't expecting anything from this film, and I did got something. The story is simple: a lonely girl meets another girl while cleaning toilets on an airport. She misses her bus and accepts help from the colleague. So lonely girl goes to other girl's home and - bang! - she is imprisoned by the family. A sadistic family beyond limits.

The good things about this film:
It's all beautifully made. The violence is top notch and everything is made to get your worst reaction. There's one scene, where Dad is masturbating with the help of "some piece of meat cut from someone" and when he finishes and puts the meat down, you can see the semen oozing from it... yes, it's shocking! So the extreme violence IS extreme. The Christmas party is another chocking moment with victims as deco.

Interesting that this film is one of a handful of projects (ten) produced by Microwave... all made under $200.000 that are supposed to discover new directing talents. And that is surprising because they did an excellent job with such a budget. And in fact, this film looks like it cost much more than just that - which is amazing.

The bad things about this film:
I don't know... I think those torture films are so boring. You can do the laundry and leave the film playing and there's almost no story to miss... except that when the next torture set piece begins the screams will alert you that something is going on. You stop what you're doing (laundry) for five minutes, take a look, get shocked, say "ok, next!" and resume laundry until more screams.

What can I say, I miss story. I miss a great screenplay - something that's very rare in horror movies nowadays[...]

But that's MY opinion... If you want to be shocked, get this film ASAP... and I DO admit that this film is very good on the "torture/cruelty/visceral/exploitation" horror sub-genre, miles above the 90% of what is produced today.

It is recommended IF you love the said genre.
I used to like it in 2005...
Now... (yawn!)

Locals' London
2009-06-09 - This work of sadistic sexuality, robbery, murdering, kidulthood, cannibalism climaxed in Jesus/Maria images constructed from semi-naked half-alive corps belongs exactly to movies of category "What is it for"?

However, locals know better what to show of London, England, worldwide.