Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Jean-Pol Cardin My opinion---This film is not so badly done in the end, but it is more a sadistic film horror for the horror, it is the girl who will feel ... the horror. But you can feel all the unhealthy atmosphere in this house and its sadistic inhabitants and the situations that the young woman feels as well as other victims, there is still very hard. The movie is rather slow the first half an hour and then nothing more quickly, the sadistic scenes reflect the real sadists of life, it is only to see the news and the documentaries on investigations impossible to understand There are even sadists even more sadistic than those seen in the movie, is to say the calvaries of those people who fall into their hands. The actors play their degenerate roles very well and the victims theirs. A movie nevertheless well done. Lovers will surely love it.

Nitzan Havoc Being the Horror freak that I am, I've had my share of what popular criticism dubs as "torture porn". And I must say I'm not the least a fan of it, but I can still appreciate it when it's done right. To be honest, Mum & Dad maintains a delicate and almost accurate balance between physical and mental torture, done both to the protagonist and the audience.The build up is short and quick, and the plot does very little more than simply exist. Much like the protagonist, we the audience are presented with the situation and forced to accept it as reality, and there's very little in between. The film has some pretty sick, twisted and deranged scenes, and is not for the feint of heart or week of stomach.The screenplay is I guess rather good, for a film with so few events. The cinematography is OK but slightly boring, and the acting is impressive. Then again, as I've said, I'm no fan of torture films, so it's very hard for me to judge.All in all - think Ketchum's The Girl Next Door meets I Spit on Your Grave. Mum & Dad is one of the better torture films I've seen, and yet I remain a fan of true Horror films.

bob_meg I wish I could recommend this movie more strongly.It's competently made for its budget, the acting is above average and very convincing, good photography, creepy sound design and production...The problem with Mum & Dad is literally that the script just doesn't try for much more than the standard horror gimmicks and gross-outs. By this, I mean there is not much going on psychologically here. The characters motivations and back stories are virtually absent and that detracts a lot.Yes, I know they're sadistic psychopaths and that should negate the need for much depth, but in a film as static as this, it makes for a long plod (even at 80 minutes). In addition, a good part of the film seems to be lifted from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (at least in structure) and this struck me as odd, since I seem to remember a real-life case in England very similar to this one. Why not go that route instead of the paint-by-Tobe-Hooper thing?If you're into the classic Fangoria-style horror --- the "OK, here's the gross-out" approach --- and like quality stuff, this is it.I just expected more. Sorry.

BA_Harrison 'Mum' and 'Dad' (Perry Benson and Dido Miles), and their 'adopted' children, Birdie and Elbie (Ainsley Howard and Toby Alexander), live in a run-down property located within spitting distance of their place of work, London's Heathrow airport.In order to supplement their meagre income, Dad scavenges property from the cargo holds whilst Birdie helps herself to items from the offices that she cleans. But that's not all that goes missing from the world's busiest airport: the family also like to lure young, transient co-workers to their home, where they are taken captive and forced to become part of the clan. Pretty Polish night worker Lena (Olga Fedori) is their latest victim, and she soon learns that if she doesn't obey the rules, Dad gets very angry indeed.Chained to her bed in a squalid room, with the endless roar of jets passing overhead acting as a constant reminder that civilisation and safety are tantalisingly close, but yet so far, Lena's plight automatically brings to mind the terrible suffering endured by the victims of real-life sickos Fred & Rosemary West and Joseph Fritzl, people for for whom torture, murder and sexual abuse were normalcy.Perhaps, if director Steven Sheil's debut feature had been released before the unspeakable acts perpetrated by such messed-up families came to light, it might have been deemed a little far fetched; however, with every lurid detail of Fred, Rosemary and Joseph's dreadful acts still fresh in the mind, Sheil's film is only too plausible, and therefore all the more horrifying.Of course, this being a movie, Lena finally gets to exact bloody revenge on her tormentors, thus allowing the audience an ultimately cathartic experience, whereas in reality—where happy endings are rare—she would have ended up under a patio or in a cavity wall. Fortunately, the predictability of the final act does little to undermine the power of this remarkable film, which proves to be one of the best and most shocking British horror films of the last decade.