It's said that, "Insanity is the Mother of Invention" . . .

Rating: 5/10 (1 October 2017)

. . . and this Famous Aphorism seldom has been borne out more explicitly than with writer\director Darren Aronofsky's MOTHER! After all, once the World possesses BOTH of the movies STAGECOACH and PORKY'S, what could prompt anyone to produce yet another flick?! However, Mr. Aronofsky not only insists upon churning out one yawner after another, but he has the unmitigated gall to brazenly attempt melding key elements of both STAGECOACH and PORKY'S into his misbegotten MOTHER! Though there's a birthing scene toward the end of MOTHER!, as there is in the final half of STAGECOACH, the Advent of Darren's Baby is a tedious exercise in the use of heavy-handed religious symbolism by way of comparison. And while MOTHER! probably has more peep-holes and voyeuristic themes than PORKY'S, they come off as totally sophomoric and lame-brained when put up against the thrills of that Campus Classic. Probably Earthlings would be much better off in the long run if we all sacrifice a few bucks and send the stimulus-deprived Mr. Aronofsky video disks of cinema masterworks such as STAGECOACH and PORKY'S. Perhaps then this prurient purveyor of rambling refrigerators won't bore the Beegeesus out of We Normal Folk any more with such Unwatchable Repetitive Fare as MOTHER!