(Don’t) Meet The Parents

Mum & Dad is a low budget, British horror movie that has no right being as good as it is. After befriending a co-worker in her new airport cleaning job, a Polish immigrant is taken back home to meet her new pal’s family…with unfortunate consequences. Riffing on the cannibalistic family motif of Texas Chainsaw, this is a well made and fresh reworking of the over-familiar horror story.

The cast are strong, the direction tense and unsettling, there a nice line of darkly black humour and the focus on the sick, twisted family unit allows the film makers to explore the ‘values’ a family can impose on it’s kids, especially in a sheltered environment. You can strike UK airports off the list of places I’d be willing to take employment.