2017 · horror · comedy · thriller
Mom and Dad (2017)
Directed by Brian Taylor1h 26m2017
In a suburban community, moms and dads, one after the other, mysteriously feel the irresistible impulse to attack and kill their own offspring.
Our read: Mom and Dad (2017) (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · comedy · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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