Meet Beverly Sutphin. Beverly is the absolute perfect, little suburban housewife and mother.In her immaculately perfect, little suburban home, Beverly just loves to cook, clean and dust her little heart out - All to please her perfectly wonderful husband, Eugene, and her 2 perfectly adorable children, Chip and Misty.But all is not what it seems in this picture perfectness. No. There's one teeny-weeny, little problem here - You see, even though she does a good job to hide it, Beverly Sutphin is a serial killer - Vicious, vengeful, with a mean-streak in her about a mile wide. And if you ever-ever do anything to make anyone in her perfect, little family feel even slightly bad, then you're dead meat on a stick, baby - Sure enough.Serial Mom (in its warped and twisted, little way) is a demented, over-the-top social satire that skewers the media for turning killers into celebrities and turns a one-note joke into a savage romp down good, ol' "Slasher Lane" that is definitely not suited for everyone's tastes.

A sweet mother (Kathleen Turner) takes a little too much at heart for the defense of her family.I love the constant references to other films, from "Blood Feast" to "Ghost Dad". The Cosby connection is even more unusual in light of all his terrible behavior.Roger Ebert awarded it an average two stars (out of a possible four) finding some of Waters' satire effective but feeling that Kathleen Turner's decision to portray her character's mental illness with realism instead of in a campy fashion, while brave, made the character difficult to laugh at, writing, "Watch Serial Mom closely and you'll realize that something is miscalculated at a fundamental level. Turner's character is helpless and unwitting in a way that makes us feel almost sorry for her—and that undermines the humor. She isn't funny crazy, she's sick crazy." I think Ebert is wrong. Not wrong in saying it was not as campy as it could be, but the offbeat humor adds something. John Waters is not comedy in any traditional sense, and it would be beneath him to make this a straight comedy (no pun intended). And, you know, this may be his most accessible film, one you can show to your non-cult friends and both enjoy.

Serial Mom is a dark and funny satirical comedy from director John Waters. Kathleen Turner is Serial Mom, a seemingly normal suburbanite mother and housewife. However, she does possess a dark side. If you don't recycle, chew bubble gum,or refuse to rewind your video tapes you could be on Serial Mom's chopping list. Also if you have anything negative to say about her family, your days are numbered. Compared to Pink Flamingos this is much more mainstream. However, Serial Mom is still campy and outrageous and John Waters fans of his earlier work can still dig this as his style is distinct and has'nt changed much. There are HG Lewis and Bloodfeast references thrown about all over the place. Beverly Sutphin's son Chip is a horror movie freak that has a job at the local video store. Her daughter, Misty is played by Rikki Lake and she loves to flirt with the boys. Kathleen Turner's performance as the wholesome, some times deadly, but always shaggable Serial Mom is perfect. Also check out a performance from all female punk/grunge band L7 that will take you down memory lane in the 90's time machine. Serial Mom is a good satire of suburban Americana and a great film that is very funny and holds up well.

Can we safely say that if John Waters' name wasn't plaster all over this thing, it wouldn't have gotten half as many good reviews as it did. I feel as if people like his movies BECAUSE they're so terrible. It's not the subject matter that is a turn off to me, it's that John Waters doesn't know how to write. Good grief, can we take an unbiased look at the film and point out how God awful the dialogue is? Who the hell says "You bring me such peace" during sex? The characters in crappy movies like this one. The plot is so contrived. How did she know her victim would stop running long enough for her to drop an AC on him. Everything just happens to fit into place for the main character. There are so many things that are just awkwardly unrealistic. Of course, if you're being chased by a murderous woman, you're OBVIOUSLY gonna wanna try to hide in a venue that for some strange reason is having band play at 3pm on a Sunday afternoon.Id say that since the 20th anniversary of Serial Mom is coming up, we should all celebrate by pretending this turd was never pushed out.