I couldn't help but notice that the site lacked a review for one of the creepiest movies ever,  "Mother's Day". As pleasant as the title sounds this movie is packed with plenty of blood and scares.  Think of it as a cross between Texas Chainsaw Masacre and The Devil's Rejects.  I hope that maybe someone can write a review for this movie and maybe give it some credit as it is one of the very few films that raise the hair on the back of my neck. 

When you say Mother's Day, i presume you're talking the original, not the upcoming Darren Lynn Bousman remake.  I assume you're talking Troma.  At some point, I'm planning to review it....I've got a lot on my list of planned reviews of course...but I mostly am commenting to say that the great thing about this site....is if you see something that you think needs to be reviewed....you don't have to wait for one of us to do it, you can do it yourself by putting your review into the little box after the review list on the review page.  We gladly accept user submissions, in fact, that's how I got started here.  So one of us could, sure, but heck, I think from what you've said, you'd be just as good to do it.

I'll never forget the scene of the girl folded up in the dresser drawer.  Very nasty little movie.

i love that movie! the tall brother is really creepy looking.

the dvd is in my horror collection.

wow i've never seen this movie and now i'm dying to see it - defo going to get it as soon as possible (if i can that is)

I think this is still available on Netflix watch now.

I saw this a few years ago, and remember finding it surprising. Please give us a review!

Recently watched that for the first time and absolutely loved it! What a weird, weird, screwy freakin movie. Maybe I'll put one in for it if I have some more free time. :)

Yeah I saw Mother's Day once and the sound quality was so poor I had to turn it off after the second kill.  I think I also have to be in the mood for a Troma flick, Surf Nazis Must Die, Cannibal the Musical, and of course The Toxic Avenger are the only ones I can watch at any time.

Well The remake is coming

Try Screamplay.  (and of course, Lloyd Kaufman's general oeuvre as in Poultrygeist, etc.)

I saw Mother's Day a year after it came out, back in...1981 or so, on VHS.  It was released w/o a rating, and was the 2nd feature w/Nightmare (aka Nightmares in a Damaged Brain), also released w/o a rating, if I remember correctly.

Anyway, Mother's Day was pretty sick on the lst viewing.  2 ghoulishly depraved (rotten teeth, unshaved, inbred-looking) hillbilly guys kidnap 3 women, tie 2 up and roleplay w/the other (endless beatings, violent sex) while their cackling mother watches and encourages the violence.  Yuck!  Her friends escape and have their revenge, and there's a twist ending no one should tell you about.... 

The movie was said to be a satire/black comedy on violence and TV (someone gets a TV smashed over their head).  I didn't get any of that, but I was 14 or so.

The movie disturbed me so much I "had" to watch it again (it desensitizes me -- go figure), this time at a New Year's Eve party w/some kids younger and older than me.  They were clearly horrified, but I found it much funnier the 2nd time around.  The violence didn't really affect me as much, but "Mom"'s sense of humor was appealingly ghoulish.  I saw the movie differently, and it really did have a sense of humor...at the women's expense (Ex: At breakfast, Mom asks her boys where their girlfriend is (the one they beat senseless the night before w/Mom's games).  "Uhhhh...she's not feeling tooo good this morning, Mah," the older one snickers while his brother smiles.  Mom laughs heartily and cackles, "That's my boys!" We later find the woman stuffed in a dresser drawer.)

A writer for Famous Monsters magazine wrote in his year-end roundup of horror films at the time that the film had a "fiendish sense of humor, making one unsure whether to laugh or cry (or throw up if you're squeamish)."  The writer generally said it was a good movie.   Critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel awarded the film the "dog of the week," the worst award possible.  Siskel and Ebert may have included Mother's Day in a special edition of Sneak Previews, their reviewing program on PBS at the time, titled "Violence against women" or some such.  In that episode they singled out recent horror films for going after women (Friday the 13th, Terror Train, Prom Night, Don't Go in the House, When a Stranger Calls), saying that the films seemed to be a backlash against the women's movement.

Like I said, the violence against the women didn't really bother me at the time, but I was 14 and just a kid (women are slapped/punched repeatedly until they pass out or acting as if they're clearly in shock and in "survival mode"), and the movies of the time tended to show violence against women, and the politically correct movement hadn't started yet.  The 3 women were clearly precursors to the feminist movement (the one who's hurt the most has had a series of bad boyfriend relationships; the other is mousy and quiet; and the 3rd is a mouthy, brash blonde who takes no back talk from anyone).  In retrospect, the men's violence against the women is later neutralized by the women's violence against the men (I'm not giving anything away), but it's not as drawn out.  Overall, it's kind of a 1980 version of "Last House on the Left," now that I think about it!

I remember that "At The Movies" episode as well as Ebert going on Donahue and whining about the evils of horror movies. This from the same guy who stood up for Dawn of the Dead (shakes head).

I have good memories of this movie, even though I have only seen half of it. Back when VHS was new and most people rented the cassettes I went down to the local mom n pop record store (anyone remember those?) hoping to rent either Halloween or one of the Friday sequels. I got there and both were gone and the stoned clerk suggested Mothers Day.

Halfway through the movie my mom freaked out and turned the VCR off. My mom actually sat through TCM, and Dawn but Mothers Day was just too much for her. To make things worse she took the cassette out and hid it so I couldn't watch the movie while she was at work.

That sucks, man.  Pick up the Troma dvd or wait a bit and see if it gets rereleased again on dvd when the remake comes out.