Be good or i'll send you to dad!

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As promised, here is my (Slightly belated) Fathers Day movie special.
Fathers Day is the one day a year which we look at our fathers and father figures and thank them for just being them! Whether they piss us off or drive us nuts, all is forgotten and forgiven.

But now Dad’s day is over think yourselves lucky that the Dad in this film isn’t yours!

Mum and Dad (2008) is a British Horror movie directed by Steven Sheil. Steven is a cinematographer and Mum and Dad is his first full length film.

The basic story is as follows.

Mum and Dad, and their adopted children, work at an airport.

The family live off anything, and I mean anything, they can scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels.

When main character Lena, is "adopted" into the family, she finds herself i a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity (sounds good doesn’t it?). She is Imprisoned in a suburban House of Horrors and designated 'Mummy's Girl'.

Lena has to decide whether to become an active part of the family or risk becoming ‘Daddy’s girl’.

Two reasons why I reviewed this film are, one, that it's British and two, it was father’s day last week.

I started watching this film alone and it made me get that weird taste in the back of my mouth, the one you get before your sick.  I still continued to watch.  The film didn’t make me jump, it is not that kind of horror, it did however fill my stomach with crazy-ass moths, because of the way Dad's character, played by Perry Benson (This is England), switched from utter psychopath to normal, caring Dad, making the situation so much creepier and disturbing.

The classic line threatened by millions of Mums, ‘be good or i'll send you to Dad’ means so much more in this film.

There are scenes in the movie that if it weren’t for the subtle fucked up, out of place, occurrences in the background of a room (e.g porn playing on the TV during breakfast), it would seem like watching a normal, everyday family.

I love the underlying theme of the movie that every family is somewhat messed up under the surface.
There is an abundance of gore in this film for the splatter fans and it quite comfortably fits into the current trend of human suffering and hopeless situations that feature in such films as Hostel or the Human Centipede.

I wouldn’t say this is a must see film for people new to the horror genre, but for a horror fan who wants to see a British movie that tries to do something different for a change, Mum and Dad is well worth a watch.

Slighty fucked up hopes and dreams,

Madame Deggly Bones