Is is very very rare that i rate films so highly, as i'm forever picking holes at some level with movies. Mum and Dad didn't have a massive budget, but it is a hidden gem. Surprisingly i do not know many people who have had the chance to watch or even heard of this film, which shocks me as i have a few very good friends who are fellow horror fanatics. I can not fault this film for its originality, class and pure genius. Its barbaric, twisted, extremely perverted, and a total shocker (which reason to be). I love this film so much that its really difficult not to give to much away or spoilers (thats not my thing). But i will say this,,,if you like your horror with depth, meaning and surreal darkness, then this is for you . If you are more into visual horror then you most likely will not rate this as high as i have. The psychological aspect of this film stayed with me for a long time after my first watch. Its the only film of this genre than gave me nightmares (seriously). Its an unforgettable film once seen. and i can only wish i was there at the first showing at the festival. Warped family values mixed with life in a family unit.. We never really get to the bottom of why mum and dad are the way they are. There are many clues, and i liked that because it allowed my imagination to flow after watching trying to piece things together my own way. The acting was amazing the directing was superb. Please give it a go , it will change your perception of horror for good ! Thankyou for reading

Being the Horror freak that I am, I've had my share of what popular criticism dubs as "torture porn". And I must say I'm not the least a fan of it, but I can still appreciate it when it's done right. To be honest, Mum & Dad maintains a delicate and almost accurate balance between physical and mental torture, done both to the protagonist and the audience.The build up is short and quick, and the plot does very little more than simply exist. Much like the protagonist, we the audience are presented with the situation and forced to accept it as reality, and there's very little in between. The film has some pretty sick, twisted and deranged scenes, and is not for the feint of heart or week of stomach.The screenplay is I guess rather good, for a film with so few events. The cinematography is OK but slightly boring, and the acting is impressive. Then again, as I've said, I'm no fan of torture films, so it's very hard for me to judge.All in all - think Ketchum's The Girl Next Door meets I Spit on Your Grave. Mum & Dad is one of the better torture films I've seen, and yet I remain a fan of true Horror films.

Mum & Dad is set in London & starts as Polish immigrant Lena (Olga Fedori) start her new cleaning job at Heathrow airport, she is paired up with Birdie (Ainsley Howard) whose brother Elbie (Toby Alexander) also works there. After her shift Lena misses the last bus home & Birdie offers her a place to stay for the night, Lena agrees & goes back to Birdies house where she is knocked unconscious. Waking up Lena finds herself chained up on a dark room, she hears screams & sees body parts everywhere. A big man known as Dad (Perry Benson) & a slim woman known as Mum (Dido Miles) tell Lena that she now lives with them as part of their family, a sadistic family who murder & steal to survive & Lena must either accept her new family & become part of it or become one of Mum & Dad's victims...This British production was written & directed by Steven Sheil & according to him is a British take on the twisted family horror films from the US like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) & Wrong Turn (2003) but with a very quirky British feel to it, which you can't argue with to much once you have seen it I suppose. In fact Mum & Dad feels like a bizarre mix if The Texas Chainsaw Massacre & any old British sit-com that leers between being gross & unsettling one moment & darkly comic & funny the next. A big part of that is the script, from the larger than life Dad with his amusing accent & way of saying things that just make you either laugh or squirm, the Mom is a complete contrast as she is far more refined & sinister while I guess Biride was meant as some sort of twist allergy to the youth of today. Albie is silent throughout the film but seems like he is uncomfortable with his family's actions while Lena is kept high on drugs & tortured in order to turn her into a perfect daughter, like it would. Of course Mum & Dad is not prefect, it's fairly predictable & the low budget keep almost the entire film set within the confines of one semi detached house in London. There's little explanation of how the family got to the point they are, what do they do with the body parts? Why kill people anyway? Why chose Lena as a daughter? Mum & Dad is an enjoyably gross black comic horror that is well worth a watch but I would stop short of calling it great, it's good but not great.Another aspect of Mum & Dad that prevents it from becoming a classic is that relative lack of gore, despite the subject matter there's not that much gore & most of the violence is implied. There's a decapitated head, some body parts, some blood splatter, someone has a knitting needle stuck through their skin & not much else to be honest. The nastiest scene is probably the implied bit when Dad masturbates with a chunk of raw meat & when he puts it down there's a shot of his cum dribbling out of it. Set at the end of Heathrow airport the soundtrack to Mum & Dad is full of noisy air-planes taking off which I am sure was a deliberate to grate on your nerves & make the audience even more on edge & unsettled. The opening credits gave me a headache as it is just literally planes taking off or landing.Shot in seventeen days in London for £100,000 this actually looks really nice, it's well made & quite colourful although I suspect the low budget hampered the special effects which explains why there aren't any. The acting is very good with the entire cast bringing their character's to life with Mum, Dad & Birdie in particular.Mum & Dad is a low budget British twisted family horror thriller that maybe isn't as gory as some might have you believe but has a good script that balances gross out imagery with dark comedy really well. Not a classic or even a great film but a good solid one that's worth a watch.

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm getting a little tired of all these predictable, low budget horror movies that are flooding the market. I was hoping that this dysfunctional family/serial killer movie might be slightly different than the dozen that came before it, but, unfortunately, it's predictable as hell. The acting was alright, but the father was really miscast. He couldn't pull off menacing at all. I thought he was more of a dork than a scary psychopath. He did have a few good moments, though, which were very gross. I'm sure they'll stay with you for a while, after you watch the movie. Speaking of which, this movie kind of straddles the "torture porn" line during the middle, threatening to become some kind of British Hostel, but eventually abandons that and veers into black comedy. I thought the movie was quite uneven, never really knowing what it wanted to be. Luckily, the changes in tone are never jarring. Overall, the directing was alright, but there was almost no tension at all during the movie. Part of that could have been the fault of the actor playing the dad, though, because he was such a big doofus. If they'd gotten a better actor, this could have been a positively nightmarish movie.In the end, I'd have to recommend Parents or The People Under the Stairs, two much, much better movies instead of this one. While there's some pretty good special effects and loads more torture/gore in this movie, those had much better atmosphere and tension. I suppose that if you're looking for a predictable, gory movie with elements of black comedy, you could do much worse than this. The problem is that the filmmakers could have done much better.