Sorry, but this just doesn't work. There are many aspects in this film which aren't able to stand. First off: originality. There is basically none. How many movies have we already seen with the same subject? Somebody kidnapped and trapped in a house inhabited by a dysfunctional family who loves murder and torture. I think I got to 10 movies watched with this same plot.Second: the acting. Olga Fedori is a walking statue. No expression on her face, in a situation where a turmoil of feelings would go through just anybody. The rest of the cast has the opposite problem: all of them overact, making the final result unbelievable and goofy.Third: the enjoyment. This is supposed to be a scary film. Well, there's not much to be scared about. There is no tension whatsoever, you don't feel the impending doom, you don't feel for any of the characters, who are rather flat and unsympathetic (except maybe for Birdie, who is hateful enough to make you want to kill her with your own hands). Everything is rather boring.Last but not least: the developing of the events. Everything is very very predictable, the ending is hurried and badly scrambled together.So, in the end, this film just doesn't work too much. It tries to shock with a few repelling scenes, but this can't be enough to make it a good choice for an evening at home. There are far better things in the same genre.

I'm going to start this review by admitting that I'm about to give this film 7/10. I'm doing this now because I'm slightly ashamed to admit it.Basically, this film 'Mum and Dad' is pretty sick. I'm not sure what sort of person enjoys watching something like it, but, apparently, I'm it.A young cleaning girl at a British airport is lured home where she's held captive by 'Mum' and 'Dad' (obviously), plus their equally twisted offspring. If your mind is as twisted as mine, you can probably imagine some of the things that she witnesses and subsequently happens to her while she's shackled and chained. So, if you want to watch something like that then you should enjoy a film as brutal as this.It's made on a shoestring of a budget, but it doesn't really need many special effects to get its point across. It's one of the rare cases where a film really doesn't need a budget to make it any good.If you're in the mood for something sick, give it a go. Also, if you used to watch the happy-go-lucky BBC sit-com 'You Rang M'lud?' in the eighties, then you might remember the innocent and lovable 'Henry' from the show. Now watch him in Mum and Dad and you'll never be able to look at him the same way again.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

A young immigrant girl working in a hospital finds herself trapped in a home with a very dysfunctional family.The real life events of the likes of Joseph Fritzl make a film like this surprisingly believable. Mum & Dad may not be pushing the boundaries of taste, nor is it anything new or shocking, but it does what it can on its budget. It also has a few sly punches at the disgustingly working class Brits. The Royle Family meets Hostel. The Christmas scene and the petty squabbles, are little comedic moments that suggest this film could have gone for all out satire. The acting is mostly of British-drama-TV caliber, so it's bearable, but not enough for what the film wants to achieve.

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.