Movie

Mum & Dad

2008 · 84 min

A grimy, relentless descent into domestic horror that leaves you feeling trapped and deeply unsettled.

Tagline: Parents can be bloody murder.
Overview: Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity.
How it feels: Bleak, dark, tense and eerie. Relentless and demanding.
About: Isolation, survival, family, violence
Content: Strong violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
survival
family
violence
madness
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong