Sunday night I saw my first films from the Midnight Madness track of the festival: Mom and Dad, preceded by the short film Great Choice. Great Choice is an offbeat short showing a woman trapped in a Red Lobster commercial from 1994. Director Robin Comisar spoke before thefilms, saying how much of his creative inspiration had come from the original ad, and that he hopes to turn the short into a feature. I assume he was kidding about the former, and I hope his was kidding about the latter. It was a cute, wacky little film, but I can't see it holding up in a longer format.
Mom and Dad did hold up throughout its full 83 minutes Selma Blair (Kendall/Mom) and Nicolas Cage (Brent/Dad) are the titular parents, caught up in a suburbia where all the parents are for some reason feeling compelled to attack and kill their children. The compulsion does not otherwise disturb their thinking, so there are "normal" conversations about the stresses of parenting woven into the lunatic attacks. It's a fun black comedy with deliberately heavy foreshadowing of most of the attacks, and some nice family bonding along the way. Not a great film, but a good bit of fun.
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