Films like Mom and Dad.
Mom and Dad (2018) reads as Heavy, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, surreal 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 chilly detachment; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a clean studio craft.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the pitch-dark outlook and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
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 →