1994 · black-comedy · cult · waters
Serial Mom
Directed by John Waters1h 34m1994
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
Our read: Serial Mom (1994) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive black-comedy · cult · waters entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured black-comedy / cult, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- funny
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