The Koffin boys (terrible name) have robbed a bank (I think you never see it happen) and one of their number has been shot. Mortally wounded the boys retreat to their mothers house where they find it occupies by an up and coming young couple and their friends. The unhinged young men seize control and being in their cool and calculate mother to deal with the situation. As a remake of the Troma realeased original this home invasion thriller turns away from the comedic backwoods slasher in favour of a more modern type of horror film.
MOTHERS DAY is a movie with problems. The scenes are disjointed, the geography of the house puzzling. There's too many characters to cover and control and no real threat to feel as people just stand about waiting on action to unfold in other parts of the room. Many of the shocks are quite tame in relation to some of the envelope pushing we have seen in recent horror flicks. There are strengths, Rebecca Di Mornay's performance is great but even she is left walking up and down stairs to carry out conversations and Briana Evigan always meets Happy Horro Hard On's approval.
As a big Darren Lynn Bousman fan (I feel he did just as much to establish the formula of SAW than Leigh Whannel and James Wan did) I was disappointed that MOTHER'S DAY did not work for me. The majority of other viewers at the Frightfest screening enjoyed the movie a lot so Happy Horror Hard In will return to the movie on its he media release and see if the lay of the lam changes from that perspective.
In the mean time it is a floppy for MOTHERS DAY.
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