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Mother's Day

Crime, Horror, Thriller

The sadistic members of a villainous family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new home owners and their guests.


The critical consensus

It’s De Mornay’s film; with her prim and proper mom-knows-best homilies juxtaposed with her ferocious sense of the Sohapi’s weaknesses, she ably makes Mother’s Day a cut above the average horror.

****(*)Eddie Harrison, The List, 23/05/2011

A nasty little chiller from the Saw director with the evergreen De Mornay on top form.

***(*)(*)David Hughes, Empire Online, 06/06/2011

Too long and with too many characters to get through, Mother’s Day holds effective sequences, ramming home its (recycled) message: the animal lurks in us all.

***(*)(*)Jamie Graham, Total Film, 07/06/2011

By the time De Mornay’s demented broodmare is cooing, “Life is sacred!” and enforcing gunpoint pregnancy tests, the movie has taken impressive leave of its own senses and ours.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 09/06/2011

Star turn lifts this horror tale to something quite special.

Paul Greenwood, Evening Times, 09/06/2011

An ingenious idea for a suspense thriller – or maybe even an old-fashioned, Wait Until Dark-style stage play – turns out instead to be the pretext for a crass, over-long and tiresome splatter nightmare.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 09/06/2011

Too many characters and plot twists dilute the intensity of Mother’s Day but there is no denying the effectiveness of De Mornay’s ferocious performance.

***(*)(*)Caroline Jowett, Daily Express, 10/06/2011

The Desperate Hours, with a sick twist.

***(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 10/06/2011

Directed by the man behind three of the Saw sequels, this is very much De Mornay's film, with the actress stealing every scene.

**(*)(*)(*)Daily Record, 10/06/2011

There are moments of tension but it’s too long, no one to like and the ending is pointlessly grim.

**(*)(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 10/06/2011

It doesn't all work (some of the reasons preventing the hostages escaping are a bit too convenient), but it's still better than it has any right to be.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 11/06/2011

It is sad to see De Mornay in something so – how should one put it? – cheesy.

Philip French, The Observer, 12/06/2011

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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