Films like Mom and Dad.
Mom and Dad (2017) reads as Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the pitch-dark outlook and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the pitch-dark outlook and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the pitch-dark outlook and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a airy, open telling.
These are Mom and Dad’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
Pick tonight’s film by mood →