mom begins at night in the middle of nowhere and at what looks like a wooden building in the desert. a pick up truck pulls up and an angry father chucks his slutty daughter virginia monroe (claudia christian) out and leaves her there and but she isn not alone as the shadowy figure of nestor duvalier (brion james) watches her from a short distance. virginia tries to make conversation but as she grinds a cigarette out under her leopard print and thigh high and high heeled boots nestor grabs her by her throat and drags her off into the darkness. nestor then rips her top open and turns into a monster and starts to eat her innards. virginia is the latest victim of a serial killer that have lieutenant carlo hendrix (art evans) and the lapd baffled and or at least that the message a local tv news reporter named clay dwyer (mark thomas miller) is telling his viewers. clay is happily living with his pregnant girlfriend alice (mary beth mcdonough) and therefore his mother emily (jeanne bates) has a spare room going which she decides to rent out to the blind dark sunglass wearing nestor. unfortunately for emily she accidentally knocks nestor sunglasses off which reveal he has strange coloured eyes and nestor then turns into a monster again and bites emily turning her into a flesh eating monster just like himself. nestor takes emily out to train her and they find a suitable homeless bum (rory vansaint) and murder him and eat his guts but emily son clay has witnessed the whole thing and he must choose between doing what is right and his love for his mother who now just happens to be a grotesque bloodsucking and flesh eating monster. edited and written and directed by patrick rand i thought mom was a pretty awful film. looking at some of the other comments on the imdb and the genre listing it has been given it appears many seem to think that mom is a comedy horror. well i can tell you now that i do not see any comedic elements in mom at all because there aren not any and unless they are very subtle. the only thing that i can assume is that people see comedy in the actual situation which mom presents and that being an old lady turning into a flesh eating monster and the predictable problems and emotional angst that it causes to her son who finds out. there are no jokes (apart from naming a prostitute beverly hills (stella stevens)) and slapstick humour or anything even remotely funny in the film itself and as far as i could see it is played totally straight throughout it 90 minute run time. so with there being no comedy in mom that must mean there lots of horror right. wrong and mom sucks and is painfully slow to watch especially after the first thirty odd minutes which consist of nestor turning into a monster a couple of times and biting emily and showing her how to hunt for food and clay finding out. until this point mom was moving at a fairly decent pace and had some ok special make up effects and had me interested and unfortunately mom runs for another hour which is basically the emotional crap suffered by emily son and the eventual breakdown of his marriage and him being torn between love for his mother and the fact that she a flesh eating monster. this part of the film is incredibly slow and boring and as dull as dishwater even having the nerve to resort to a clichéd role reversal scenario where clay tells his mom to go to her room and stay there locking the door behind her and telling her off and putting bars over her window so she can not escape her room. mom script totally ignores the monsters origins and ask us to just accept that this thing exists without giving a single reason why we should and no matter how silly an explanation might have been i think some background to the monster would have helped. technically mom is bland and cheap looking and although i can not say it badly made it very average stuff all the way with nothing that particularly impresses or anything with which i could make fun of to pass the time. the special make up effect on the monster are ok but their used in very quick flashes and blink and you will miss them. don not be fooled by any fancy video box artwork like i was and the monster is only in it three times maximum and all of those are within the pacey first thirty minutes. there isn not much gore either and a severed arm and some brief intestine eating and a burnt body and a drill in someone arm is all we get. the acting is ok but please mr. brion james what is that dodgy accent all about. at least james had the good sense to know he was in crap and sensibly opted to be killed off early on in the proceedings and everyone else are nobodies expect the black lieutenant who was also a black police officer in fright night (1985) but you may recognise him from die hard 2 (1990) and he made mom and die hard 2 in the same year. talk about opposite ends of the spectrum. overall there is nothing by which i can really recommend mom as a horror film and it certainly isn not a comedy as far as i am concerned. very poor and very disappointing and yet again i have been conned by fancy video box artwork with lots of stills of cool looking monsters. definitely one to avoid. 
mom begins at night in the middle of nowhere and at what looks like a wooden building in the desert. a pick up truck pulls up and an angry father chucks his slutty daughter virginia monroe (claudia christian) out and leaves her there and but she isn not alone as the shadowy figure of nestor duvalier (brion james) watches her from a short distance. virginia tries to make conversation but as she grinds a cigarette out under her leopard print and thigh high and high heeled boots nestor grabs her by her throat and drags her off into the darkness. nestor then rips her top open and turns into a monster and starts to eat her innards. virginia is the latest victim of a serial killer that have lieutenant carlo hendrix (art evans) and the lapd baffled and or at least that the message a local tv news reporter named clay dwyer (mark thomas miller) is telling his viewers. clay is happily living with his pregnant girlfriend alice (mary beth mcdonough) and therefore his mother emily (jeanne bates) has a spare room going which she decides to rent out to the blind dark sunglass wearing nestor. unfortunately for emily she accidentally knocks nestor sunglasses off which reveal he has strange coloured eyes and nestor then turns into a monster again and bites emily turning her into a flesh eating monster just like himself. nestor takes emily out to train her and they find a suitable homeless bum (rory vansaint) and murder him and eat his guts but emily son clay has witnessed the whole thing and he must choose between doing what is right and his love for his mother who now just happens to be a grotesque bloodsucking and flesh eating monster. edited and written and directed by patrick rand i thought mom was a pretty awful film. looking at some of the other comments on the imdb and the genre listing it has been given it appears many seem to think that mom is a comedy horror. well i can tell you now that i do not see any comedic elements in mom at all because there aren not any and unless they are very subtle. the only thing that i can assume is that people see comedy in the actual situation which mom presents and that being an old lady turning into a flesh eating monster and the predictable problems and emotional angst that it causes to her son who finds out. there are no jokes (apart from naming a prostitute beverly hills (stella stevens)) and slapstick humour or anything even remotely funny in the film itself and as far as i could see it is played totally straight throughout it 90 minute run time. so with there being no comedy in mom that must mean there lots of horror right. wrong and mom sucks and is painfully slow to watch especially after the first thirty odd minutes which consist of nestor turning into a monster a couple of times and biting emily and showing her how to hunt for food and clay finding out. until this point mom was moving at a fairly decent pace and had some ok special make up effects and had me interested and unfortunately mom runs for another hour which is basically the emotional crap suffered by emily son and the eventual breakdown of his marriage and him being torn between love for his mother and the fact that she a flesh eating monster. this part of the film is incredibly slow and boring and as dull as dishwater even having the nerve to resort to a clichéd role reversal scenario where clay tells his mom to go to her room and stay there locking the door behind her and telling her off and putting bars over her window so she can not escape her room. mom script totally ignores the monsters origins and ask us to just accept that this thing exists without giving a single reason why we should and no matter how silly an explanation might have been i think some background to the monster would have helped. technically mom is bland and cheap looking and although i can not say it badly made it very average stuff all the way with nothing that particularly impresses or anything with which i could make fun of to pass the time. the special make up effect on the monster are ok but their used in very quick flashes and blink and you will miss them. don not be fooled by any fancy video box artwork like i was and the monster is only in it three times maximum and all of those are within the pacey first thirty minutes. there isn not much gore either and a severed arm and some brief intestine eating and a burnt body and a drill in someone arm is all we get. the acting is ok but please mr. brion james what is that dodgy accent all about. at least james had the good sense to know he was in crap and sensibly opted to be killed off early on in the proceedings and everyone else are nobodies expect the black lieutenant who was also a black police officer in fright night (1985) but you may recognise him from die hard 2 (1990) and he made mom and die hard 2 in the same year. talk about opposite ends of the spectrum. overall there is nothing by which i can really recommend mom as a horror film and it certainly isn not a comedy as far as i am concerned. very poor and very disappointing and yet again i have been conned by fancy video box artwork with lots of stills of cool looking monsters. definitely one to avoid. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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