
Flicks, Luke Buckmaster
If the 2014 scary movie The Babadook was a metaphor about the fear of being a bad parent, the bat shit crazy horror-comedy Mom and Dad can be its gnarly counterpoint: a grotesque fantasy about pent-up parental rage exploding into violence and carnage. Writer/director Brian Taylor explores mid-life crisis by way of George Romero-esque contagion, casting Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair as middle class American parents who – like their similarly white picket neighbours – transform from normal, disillusioned people into murderous maniacs intent on killing their children.
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