You don't expect much when you are about to watch a movie as notorious as this one. Yet, I was pleasantly surprised how good this movie is. First of all, our three heroines are more interesting and likable than more than half of the characters that appear in the genre. Their chemistry is great and first half an hour of the movie look like a comfy girl road trip movie. Then they get captured by the crazy family and we actually care for them. But, the thing is, girls are smart and capable of taking care of themselves and it's such a refreshment from helpless heroines or over the top ones on the other hand. The rest of the movie is filled with a lot of tension and thrills, until the girl decide to bring the fight back to the family. There is a lot of humour in the movie and I genuinely laughed on some of the scenes. All in all, it is what it is. It's satirical, it's over the top, it's exploitative (features an infamous rape scene) and the cheap ending scene can go to hell, but all taken into account, "Mother's Day" is a movie made with love and care and despite it's low budget it manages to be an entertaining ride. I recommend to horror movie fans and to casuals who can stomach some brutality because the movie is far from a travesty and pure mindless violence as some make it to be.
Review of Mother's Day
