So soon after the invigorating adrenaline rush of James Watkins' utterly fantastic Eden Lake last year, quick as a flash and bang on time, here arriveth the comedown.
Mum and Dad aspires to be Mike Leigh's Hostel, but it looks and feels like a bottom-rung Eastenders episode by way of Roland Joffe's Captivity, and is somehow at least five times as dumb and disposable as that sounds. In short, it amounts to eighty-odd minutes of aggrieved yelling braided into several totally asinine moments of bloody, lavatorial sleaze.
It isn't even momentarily frightening, suspenseful or inventive, and for a flick so proudly and loudly "inspired" by the murders of Fred and Rosemary West, the complete lack of taste, insight and tonal composure is unforgivable.
The story behind the film's funding and production is fascinating however, and well worth investigating online. The most revealing fact derived from the whole saga is that the director was forced to write and shoot almost half an hour's worth of extra material at the last minute because the film ran so short. The most depressing fact is that you'll have absolutely no idea which footage is which.
Bad acting, bad direction, bad plotting, bad effects, bad dialogue.....This whole sorry enterprise is marginally less worthwhile than ejaculating into a lacerated human organ.
And certainly less enjoyable.
Mum and Dad aspires to be Mike Leigh's Hostel, but it looks and feels like a bottom-rung Eastenders episode by way of Roland Joffe's Captivity, and is somehow at least five times as dumb and disposable as that sounds. In short, it amounts to eighty-odd minutes of aggrieved yelling braided into several totally asinine moments of bloody, lavatorial sleaze.
It isn't even momentarily frightening, suspenseful or inventive, and for a flick so proudly and loudly "inspired" by the murders of Fred and Rosemary West, the complete lack of taste, insight and tonal composure is unforgivable.
The story behind the film's funding and production is fascinating however, and well worth investigating online. The most revealing fact derived from the whole saga is that the director was forced to write and shoot almost half an hour's worth of extra material at the last minute because the film ran so short. The most depressing fact is that you'll have absolutely no idea which footage is which.
Bad acting, bad direction, bad plotting, bad effects, bad dialogue.....This whole sorry enterprise is marginally less worthwhile than ejaculating into a lacerated human organ.
And certainly less enjoyable.