Mother's Day (2010)

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Year:	2010
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Darren Lynn Bousman
Genre:	Tired, pointless remake.
Starring:	Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King, Shawn Ashmore, Patrick John Flueger
Rating:	2/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1434435/
Tagline:	No tagline
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Yet another remake of an 80's horror, this could only be bad, right?

The plot:
A couple have recently moved into a new house and seem to be throwing some kind of birthday party, so their disgustingly attractive friends are around.
Meantime, three brothers are in a spot of bother. One's been shot in a bank heist gone wrong, badly, and is going to die, so they decide to head back to the family home which is, yep, you guessed it, the very same home the new couple have moved into. Once there, all manner of threats ensue as they take control, then call for Mother to tell them what to do next.
Enter stage right Rebecca 'Hand That Rocks the Cradle' De Mornay to pull her mad as a bucket of frogs schtick.

And it's pretty nasty, and pretty violent, which is no surprise since director Bousman also directed Saws 2,3 and 4.
Thing is - and this is a big problem for me - it's 112 minutes long.
What the fuck?
This is an exploitation movie. Why on Earth is it so long? 90 minutes tops, people which, coincidentally is the precise run time of the original, a movie I am yet to see but which, by all accounts, is not very good at all.
So here we have it.
2011.
They've remade all of the decent horror from the 70's and 80's - well, maybe not The Exorcist or Hellraiser, but they can't be too far away - so now they are turning to the mediocre.
Save for one pretty entertainingly disturbing scene next to a cash machine (I won't spoil it, but it is nice and twisted, and shows Bousman's Saw related heritage) this is not even deserving of the accolade average.
Boring.