Mother's Day (1980)

Horror Obsessive Radio

After discussing Lee Cronin’s brilliant feature debut, The Hole in the Ground, on their last episode of the Horror Obsessive Podcast, Sean Parker and JP Nunez go to the opposite end of the horror spectrum and discuss a so-bad-it’s-good (or so-bad-it’s-just-bad, depending on your point of view) cult film from the '80s: Mother’s Day. It’s about a trio of young women who go on vacation in the backwoods of New Jersey, and soon after they arrive, they’re kidnapped by two brothers who kill and torture people at their mother’s behest.

Unsurprisingly, Sean and JP have completely different reactions to Mother’s Day. Sean thinks it's a stupid good time, but I found it just about unwatchable. Their divergent opinions make for some lively and interesting discussion, and they believe you’ll have as much fun listening as they did talking about Mother's Day.

On top of that, we also discuss some of the biggest new releases to come out in the last two weeks. We give our takes on Evil Dead Rise (which we both liked quite a bit), I explain my big problem with Ari Aster’s new three-hour epic Beau Is Afraid, and Sean gives us a little taste of the amazing time he had covering Salem Horror Fest. I also finally got a chance to see Enys Men, which Sean caught at the Boston Underground Film Festival about a month ago, so we compare our reactions to that movie as well.

And as always, if you enjoy this conversation, join us again in two weeks for the next episode of The Horror Obsessive Podcast, where Sean and I will be discussing the amazing 2021 drama-horror film, Martyrs Lane. This movie doesn’t get nearly as much love as I think it deserves, so I’m going to make sure we do everything we can to remedy that.

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