Mother's Day (2010) poster
2010 · crime · horror · thriller · survival

Mother's Day

Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman1h 52m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.219kRT46%Metacritic34
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme crime / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.

Our read · Mother's Day (2010) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded crime · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want punishing home-invasion horror with a sadistic matriarch and zero mercy.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youa rollercoastergrips by minute 8attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegoresexual violencechild perilcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightYou value sleep; torture, assault, and cruelty dominate every reel.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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