Mum And Dad (DVD)

Mum And Dad is a 2008 horror film directed by Steven Sheil. He's not a big star and with this film in mind I can't imagine him becoming one in the future. He has only a limited catalogue of work that includes: Goth Cruise, Love Takes, Cry and Shifting Units. I've never heard of any of them and after seeing Mum And Dad I have no reason to want to see them either. Mum And Dad doesn't have any major actors in it. The only person I recognised was Perry Benson who made an appearance in This Is England. The other person that you may know is Olga Fedori who appeared briefly in Eastenders and in the first series of Skins in the Russia episode. Olga Fedori ...  Read the complete review

A review of just the film, the region 2 DVD was released on December 26th 2008, notably simultaneously with the film's release at the cinema and for download. Some readers may find some of the descriptions used within this review unpleasant and should be warned that this is not a film for anyone who is easily offended. Lena, a Polish immigrant, works as a cleaner for the night shift at Heathrow airport. At work one night she meets Birdie (so called because she never shuts up) and her brother Elbie (who is the complete opposite and never says a word.) Missing the bus home, she reluctantly agrees to go back to Birdie and Elbie's house, where, she is promised, ...  Read the complete review

Having desensitised myself to horror films from a very young age, films that actually disturb me are hard to come by - a notable exception being the British offering of Eden Lake which relied heavily on portraying just how gruesome human nature can truly be. Mum & Dad takes the same, albeit slightly less plausible, but by no means less chilling, route as Eden Lake to both horrify and fascinate the viewer with the unspeakable depravities human beings are capable of. A young Polish immigrant Lena (Olga Fedori) is stranded at Heathrow Airport after missing the last bus home and has no option but to return to the home of some newly acquired friends, ...  Read the complete review

Mum and Dad had been recommended by various newspaper reviews as an excellent horror film and whilst I've enjoyed a bit of British horror lately in the form of the likes of Eden Lake, Mum and Dad is a load of rubbish. The introduction part involves an airport cleaner talking to an immigrant worker called Lena. It was at this point when I realised the film was going to be a load of bunkum, Lena is supposed to be Polish in the film but despite the name existing in Polish as an abbreviation, it's pretty rare that you actually meet them and Olga Fedori's accent was completely inaccurate, just coming across exactly as she is - an American ...  Read the complete review

Now this is what I would call a horror. It's dark, bleak, relentless, gory and just plain sick at times. Mum & Dad is not for the squeamish. It centres around Lena, a Polish girl who is working at a local airport as a cleaner. She is befriended by loudmouth Birdie and her shy brother Elbie. Unfortunately for Lena, she misses her bus home after work one night and is offered a bed and some food by Birdie. The only catch is she will have to go to Elbies Mum and Dad's house and this is where the horror begins... From the offset Lena is imprisoned and physically and mentally tortured by the whole family. On the outside appearing as the average happy ...  Read the complete review