1980 Directed by Charles Kaufman
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?
El dia de la madre, Os Herdeiros do Mal, Muttertag, День мамочки, O Dia da Mãe, Dzień matki, Los herederos del mal, Trágico fin de semana 2, マザーズデー, Hronia polla, etoimasou na pethaneis, Dia das Mães Macabro, Mama's lievelingen, Les chouchoux de maman, Den matek, Anyák napja, 마더스 데이, 母亲节
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Opens with a snake oil salesmen preaching his self help group (called Ego lol) and sweet old lady bait and switch before a picture montage gives way to what feels like a Beverly Hills swinger party and eventually, an excursion into a backwoods rape revenge slasher pop culture satire.
Love how genuinely funny the first act of this movie is, and how Every old lady for a 25-30 year period looked like Ruth Gordon from Rosemary’s Baby and that’s a big mood.
This was one of those movies I watched A LOT while I was earning my horror sea legs back in the day, the Jersey factor was a big part of that... and listen... I’ve travelled all over this country,…
I'm so proud of my boys -- they never forget their mama.
“I’m a sick woman! I’m a sick woman!”
Troma backwoods hillbilly horror, set in the New Jersey wilderness and it’s everything you’d expect from a Kaufman! Sleazy, mean-spirited and has that 80s low-budget full-on exploitation charm.
Three long time friends venture out on their yearly trip full of skinny dipping, reminiscing about their high school days, until they’re met face to face with two hillbilly sons that’ll do anything to win over their mothers love and affection, you think they’re bad, wait til you meet Mother; the brains of the operation. A grimy, often tasteless, rape/revenge flick that has one hell of a retribution sequence. Absolutely not my favorite Troma film but its Deliverance meets I Spit on your Grave and that to me makes for the most trashy Mother’s Day watch.
Happy Mother’s Day!💐
I had never seen this before last night, but I have seen the remake quite a few times because I looooove Rebecca DeMornay and I think these are both great movies with two incredibly different tones and that just often seems like the best way to do a remake, right? Like the 2006 Black Christmas!
A crazy mom and her 2 very disturbed sons terrorize people in their creepy backwater house in the middle of the woods in this strange mix of Deliverance, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and any slapstick comedy of the time and it is very trashy and I loved it!
I remember seeing the cover art as a kid at Blockbuster (my local store oddly did not…
my trans girl vibes:
as an egg, i was very toxic. my experiences with authority figures, the mental health system, and society in general all combined with negative relationships with women and my need to prove to myself (and everyone else) that i was a man, with ugly and often humiliating results. basically, for a while i was walking around trying to be a creepy little gg allin caricature, always drunk and getting myself into trouble. i never did any of the horrible things that get done in this movie (thankfully), but the redneck scumbags in this were very much exaggerated forms of the toxic masculinity i was misguidedly aspiring to while the real me was trapped underneath. and the…
Backwoods horror set to humiliate/decimate with a cheeky demeanour, like Paul Bartel doing a parody of I Spit On Your Grave that's gone feral at the troth.
From the city to the deep thick of the woods, three women are off on their yearly vacation to sustain their long-held friendship. Chilling by the lake, smoking a J in their sleeping bags, reminiscing about the past... and then they're ambushed...
Calamity ensues like an electrical bull powered by nightmare fuel, flailing to and fro yet staying on course as the tale turns G.R.I.M.
This was a real head turner, starting out like a subversive satire then diving into that bubblegum depravity I love so much. That strong bond between the ladies…
As part of my double feature of popular Troma movies I decided to watch this movie that came to my attention thanks to several people who reviewed it last Halloween. Although the reviews were generally unfavorable, I found some of it interesting.
And well, in a sense, I'm a little disappointed, even though it was more or less what I expected. At first the film fooled me to believe this was a much cinematic, traditional horror film, but the more the film progressed, the more the studio's trademarks came to the fore with its exploitative tone, dark humor and certain elements of gore, though never to the exaggerated level of other films from the studio, but this one seemed more…
It’s been a while since I saw this and always denigrated it for being “Lloyd’s Brothers movie” before Troma was “T-ROMA!” but it weirdly affected me more this time and I’m glad I got to watch it on The Last Drive In. It’s got a scrappy charm and copious amounts of weird.
MIGHT love the poster/video cover more than the actual movie.
Love the New Wave Hillbilly look, that’s gotta come back.
Screened as part of Joe Bob Briggs’ THE LAST DRIVE IN on Shudder.
💀HOOPTOBER 7.0💀
💀BONUS MOVIE💀
1980 In Review - September
A pair of back woods mischief makers kidnap three girls on a weekend getaway and torment and brutalise then to make their demented mother happy.
A very silly and yet inventive rape-revenge flick directed by Charlie Kaufman (brother of Lloyd) this has all the touches of a Troma movie. It’s never boring and the interplay between the two brothers is actually hilarious, especially the training sequence.
Prior to filming, a dead body was found in the house used in the film, it was an actual house in Newton, New Jersey. Nobody had lived in the house for 15 years prior to filming. It turned out that the previous owner of the house had been murdered there.
Back during their glory days, Troma put out some good stuff, this is really more rape revenge than slasher as the poster art would imply.
Mothers day has some twisted shit going on in it as well.
Its basically Deliverence, by way of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and I Spit on Your Grave.
Mondo Cinema out.
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs - Season 3 - Episode 1 - Film 1
"Jackie, don't be so paranoid, we're not in the city anymore!"
Jackie, Abbey, and Trina have been friends since their college days. Since they all live so far apart now, each year one of them plans a vacation while leaving the other two unaware of the plans until they arrive. This year Jackie has set up a camping trip in the Deep Barons section of New Jersey. Home to miles of trees, lakes, and wildlife. While the area may be extremely secluded they're not alone this weekend. A psychopath mother and her two deranged sons live in these woods and they love abducting and…
There's a point in this New Jersey backwoods horror where I just couldn't take it anymore, but my morbid curiosity made me return. The grimness was hard to take, but the random placement of consumer products such as Drano and Kix cereal in the shack in the woods captured a classic view of our twisted US consumer culture. Plus the buildup to the main story is a trip through the coke-fueled late 70s as the three women who have been friends since college arrive in a nasty backwoods rural regional horror featuring a dangerous inbred matriarchal family led by veteran actor Beatrice Pons who had worked all through tv's golden age and somehow wound up starring in this to perhaps cap off her long career. There's also a supernatural horror vibe that could have been its own backwoods shriek of terror. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it.
