Mother's Day (2010), and the Home Invasion subgenre

In honor of the good old Mother's week challenge, I couldn't watch the "original" without watching the "remake". Not really a remake at all, but Goddamn if Lloyd Kaufman's face didn't appear in the movie anyway.

The performances in this sort of movie are what it's all about. We have some decent actors here, like Frank Grillo, Shawn Ashmore, Jaime King, among our lead antagonist, played by Rebecca DeMornay. She tries to play friendly, but turns nasty pretty quick. I'm sure she had fun with this role.

This is very much a sadistic movie. The villains are panicked, and often feel the need to hurt our hostages in cringe-worthy scenes, and there's plenty of violence. This was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman after all, who had made a bunch of the Saw sequels. He doesn't skimp out on the gore and violence in this movie.

The movie was two hours, so it seemed kinda long, but I got sucked into it. Home invasion / hostage type movies are all pretty much the same, but they're all pretty deranged. Movies like this one, You're Next, Better Watch Out, etc.

I watched the ending of that movie "Breaking In" at work, which is a very Hollywood home invasion movie, and it was tame as fuck. Give me this movie instead. I thought it was pretty damn good.