Mother’s Day 1980 is so bad it’s good
Mother’s day 1980 is a play on words because for most people Mother’s Day is a celebration for the woman who raised you and taught you how to love. This movie is NOT about that. Charles Kaufman presents a horror film that is pornographic violence with themes of rape and revenge. In actuality, this low budget film is exceedingly cheesy in it’s special effects. But the violence and rape scenes are creepy and realistic enough that youngsters and traumatized individuals should best avoid them. And it seems to have enough of a following, that it inspired a remake (not nearly as low budget) in 2010.
Mother’s Day 1980 is supposed to be a satire on taking societal cues from television. There are multiple pop culture references, mostly within the depraved environment of the socially retarded, and violent sons to the title’s sadistic mother. Mother wears a neck brace and carries herself in public like a proper little old lady. But she is literally the conductor orchestrating the chaos and depravity of this movie.
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Like a director in a BDSM film, she instructs one of her boys in an elaborate role-playing scheme with his UN-willing participant while his brother snaps photos of the woman being violated. It’s like Mother, is purposely trying to raise the kind of men other people’s mother’s warn them about. I wonder if Kaufman wasn’t trying to also signal society on the pitfalls of allowing a mentally unstable single parent to raise her children in isolation? Whatever the case Mother’s Day 1980 does make you scratch your head.
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Obviously, Mother’s day 1980 isn’t a film for everyone. But it does have some humorous moments. For me it’s near the ending when escaped victims seek revenge for their best friend’s demise. I won’t give you all the details, but Mother’s Day to die, is the highlight. A absurdly comical and befitting death. I don’t much care for horror/gore films, but the revenge portion of Mother’s Day made the first half worth sitting through.