In 1980 there was a black humored low budget horror movie called MOTHER'S DAY, directed by Charles Kaufman, brother of the infamous Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman. It became a worldwide success and can be called a classic in its genre. Horrorfans still enjoy three young women on their camping trip get terrorized by two crazy brothers and their dominant mother.
30 years later RUSH HOUR-Director Brett Ratner produced a complete new version. No, not really new, it's more a remake for William Wyler's classic THE DESPERATE HOURS. You don't recognize the original MOTHER'S DAY in any second. Just some hommages and quotes seem to justify to call it a remake. Screen writer Scott Milam transfers in his debut the plot from the backwoods to a suburbian background. Wellknown Rebecca De Mornay (THE HAND THE ROCKS THE CRADLE) does a good job as the adamantine matriarch with strong family values. Her kids could be coming straight from a boygroup. They look just as good as some soap actors and you miss the good old Ike and his districtive denture. The experenced director Darren Lynn Bousman makes it a solid piece of thriller movie but it's highly visible that his MOTHER'S DAY is an average fast food product I can't really recommend.
