Mother's Day

1980
7.0
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Title: Mother's Day

Original Title: Mother's Day

Year: 1980

Info

  • Country: USA
  • Length: 90 Minutes (1 hour 30 min)
  • Budget: $150,000
  • Genre: Horror Comedy
  • Studios: Sagafilm
  • Age rating: R18 (To be shown only in specially licensed cinemas to adults of not less than 18 years)

Release Dates

  • United States: September 19 1980

Plot

This movie, which was released in the early 80s, tells the story of three young girls who decide to stay a weekend in the woods. The serenity that they were looking for will disappear when they meet Mother and her two sons, who bring them to an abandoned cottage. The main characters will try to scape alive from there, because the strangers of the woods use kitchen utensils to attack and torture them in order to please their mother, who suffers a mental disorder and has fun staring how the young girls suffer.

'Mother¡s Day' is a horror film directed by Charles Kaufman. Its cast is formed by Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luc, Tiana Pierce, Frederick Coffin, Michael McCleery, Beatrice Pons, Robert Collins and Peter Fox.

Cast

Director:

Charlie Kaufman Charlie Kaufman

Photos

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Trivia

The house used in the film was an actual house in the woods of Newton, New Jersey. No one had lived there for 15 years prior to filming. The previous owner of the home was murdered there.

Charles Kaufman, in the director's commentary, said that a very ironic thing happened during filming: an actress who played one of the victims and one of the actors who played a son hit it off and starting dating when not filming - even though his character terrorizes and brutalizes her. Concerned that neither would be able to project the sense of terror needed, Kaufman asked them to postpone their relationship until after the film wrapped. They complied.

The movie's poster is a parody of the painting known as 'Whistler's Mother'.

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