"Mom and Dad"

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Growing up, the ones who are there for many are Mom and Dad. They feed us, put band aids on our scraped knees and watch us grow. They love us, they fight with us and they stay by our side through thick and thin, at least they're suppose to, but not in this case.

Brent (Nicolas Cage) and Kendall Ryan (Selma Blair) are portrayed as 40-somethings with two kids Carly (Anne Winters) and Joshua (Zackary Arthur) living as a typical white-collared, middle-upper class suburban family. Brent is showing signs of having a mid-life crisis, Kendell is wondering where the fun in her life has gone, Carly is being rebellious as many teenager girls are and Joshua goes about his day with his childhood imagination. Yet that all changes when an unknown force suddenly drives parent's instinct to protect their children and reverses it creating them into psychotic killers hell bent on murdering their own flesh and blood. As the chaos ensues, Carly and Joshua must fight to survive with the help of Carly's boyfriend Damon Hall (Robert Cunningham) in hopes they will ride out whatever is driving their parent's madness, that is until Grandma and Grandpa show up.

This was by far one of the most pulse-racing thrillers I've seen in awhile. You weren't sure when the switch would be flipped or what they would do next. Yet Nicholas's character came off way too selfish and whiney than I would expect for a middle-age family man going through a mid-life crisis. Though Selma Blair's character showing strength until the moment she snapped seem to balance the family dynamic between them making it seem more believable. My only real complaint was that it had so many random flashbacks that it was sometimes hard to know when they switched from what was happening currently. All in all, it's a scary idea made real thanks to the vision of director Brian Taylor which has won the right to have 3 G.M.Stars in my book. So the next time you think your parents are going to kill, just watch this movie. It will make you thankful for what you have.

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