Mommy

Plot synopsis:
In a fictional outcome for the Canadian federal election, 2015, a political party comes to power and establishes a law called S-14, allowing parents of troubled children and limited finances to place their children in hospitals, without regard for fundamental justice. After the law is passed, Diane "Die" Després, a widowed mother and 46-year-old journalist, picks up her son Steve, who has ADHD with violent tendencies, from an institution. Steve has started a fire at the institution, in which another youth was injured. Die brings Steve home, and struggles to care for him under financial distress. He gives her jewelry reading "Mommy", which she suspects he has stolen. Enraged by the accusation, Steve begins choking her, and she defends herself by hitting him with a glass frame. Kyla, a neighbour and teacher on sabbatical, shows up to tend to their wounds.
Kyla, who is dealing with a stuttering problem, begins to tutor Steve, and Steve indicates he is glad to know her and respects her wishes not to call her "babe". Although the three have bonded, Die is served papers indicating she and Steve are being sued for the injuries caused by his fire.
Die finds a lawyer willing to help them, but Steve drives him away due to what he perceives as the lawyer's sexual interest in Die. While at a store, Steve stabs himself, but survives. Overwhelmed, Die attempts to commit Steve to a hospital. She regrets the decision when she sees the officials use violence and tasers to subdue Steve, but there is nothing she can legally do. Kyla moves to Toronto, with Die encouraging her and expressing hope for her son. Immediately after being unstrapped by hospital officials, Steve flees.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
Yes, it is low budget, and yes it is shot on video for the direct to DVD market but I've seen much, much, worse.
I can only imagine that the critics of this movie went into it with the wrong expectations.Patty McCormack is great as the deranged Mommy, her performance is definitely over the top, just as it should be in this kind of movie.
She's acting as hard as she can and it is not a role which calls for subtlety.
Rachel Lemieux may not be the most accomplished actress in the world - but she's less annoying than most children in low budget films.
It's also nice to see Brinke Stevens in a (more or less) dramatic role.If you are looking for a high quality movie with lots of drama, gore, and topless Brinke Stevens, this is definitely not it.
However, if you're looking for something kind of campy which you can enjoy making fun of (in an MST3K kind of way) then you could do a lot worse than this..
Forget Blair Witch or the flavor of the month at the nearest artsy film festival.
Shot on a shoestring in Muscatine, IA, this semi-sequel to The Bad Seed (Mommy is never named, but the parallel is obvious) is a character-driven study of a young girl discovering her perfect mother is just plain evil.
The casting is clever, especially scream queen Brinke Stevens doing an about face as Mommy's "Plain-Jane" sister Beth.
This movie had the whole Alfred Hitchcock feel to it!
Usually I prefer the extremely gory, offensive horror movies.
The reason I bought this movie was because I am a huge fan of Brinke Stevens.
I actually ended up liking this.
Also, brinke did a good job as the goody-goody Aunt Beth.
Although, it was weird seeing brinke playing a goody-goody role.
Also, they had alot of foreshadowing in this film which I liked.
I also liked the way they shot it.
It was shot on video, but still a bit of professionalism that you don't see in a lot of shot on video movies these days.
Mostly decent thriller is better than it's budget should allow....
Okay, there's some who will not like the shot-on-video style that makes this aesthetically seem like a daytime soap, but having watched the similarly done BBC series Thriller, I actually like it for it gives the film a bit more down-to-earth quality and less Hollywood slickness.The players are adequate, including Patty McCormick, but the real shining star is the young girl portraying Jessica Ann. The quality of her stellar performance reminds me of, say, Patty McC back in the original Bad Seed.
All others are fine, with the exception of the fellow playing the rumpled detective, who really just is overboard.Brinke Stevens is exceptionally lovely in her staid appearance and gives new meaning to the really hot 'plain jane'.
Too bad she wasn't a librarian as well.The story is pretty much what you'd expect and without surprises, well-paced however and still fun to watch.
The budget limitations would have left a less resourceful cast and crew with a miserable effort, but they all come through here to present a pleasing diversion, yet that is all it is, an entertaining diversion.
Don't make too much effort to get it, but if you find it and not for too much, then it's a good spend..
Thinking this low-budget "horror / thriller" to be along the lines of the chilling "Stepfather" films, I decided to watch it, but instead, I felt like I was prying on someone's personal life!
The quality of the film was so unbelievably low, it was as if the film was made on someone's handi-cam - you could almost reach out and touch the bad upholstery at "Mommy's" house.With the exception of the esteemed Majel Barrett I had never heard of any of the cast in this film, which is somewhat surprising, as there were a couple of good actors, while the rest just seemed like locals the director / writer had somehow managed to rope into being in his film.
What Majet was doing in this film is beyond me.
Patty McCormack was a little bit OTT, but she certainly showed off her character's malign temperament.
Rachel Lemieux was harmless, but it's easy to see why she never amounted to anything in the film industry (which I feel rather sorry for her).
Brinke Stevens was the surprise, as she was rather good as "Mommy's" kind sister.
Jason Miller (R.I.P.) was good as the detective investigating the strange goings-ons surrounding "Mommy", and Sarah Jane Miller was a riot as the janitor.If you are going to watch this film, be warned, and don't expect too much - because overall, it doesn't amount to much, though that is not for lack of trying..
Painfully Bad. I do realize this film was made on a limited budget, but they could have made it so much better.
The shots were grainy, the lighting was bad, and the widescreen dvd version was hardly widescreen at all.
Apparently Patty McCormack has forgotten how to act, because she was quite good in the Bad Seed.
The supporting cast does the film no better.
The apparent parallels to the original only act as an insult, especially since the modern counterparts pale in comparison to the characters in which they were based (ex.
the janitor at school trying to play LeRoy)  The effects were terrible, especially the gun shot scene, and the soundtrack was annoying.
Why Patty McCormack passed up other offers before deciding to make this one is a mystery to me.
This film can only be enjoyed for its camp quality, which in itself is hardly enough..
This one was really bad.
This sounded A bit like the stepfather movies but much lower budget, which dose effect some parts of the movie.I found plot so-what in-trusting but I found to be bit bland, it started off not bad but the movie never really picked up.I don't think acting helped as I found everyone to be really wooden in this movie and other thing that I didn't like was the fact some of the scenes in this movie were so dark, you could not make out what the hell was going on.There was one think I did like, was one of death scenes with I thought was decent for this movie and another thing was that the ending was far to rushed.
2 out of 10 I won't be watching the sequel any time soon.
Pretty damn decent for the extremely low budget.
This is not really a follow-up to Bad Seed.
Patty McCormick does reprise her role in a way, but it's a different character.
If you wanna use your imagination, and interpret things your own way, here's some food for thought.
I like to imagine that this is Rhoda all grown up, with a name and identity change.
Anyway, Patty McCormick is obsessed with her 12 year old daughter.
She will kill anyone, or anything that gets in her way.
When she finds out her daughter didn't win Student of the Year Award, she offs her teacher.
The meat of this story is Mommy & the daughter Jessica.
They are both riveting to watch, and I enjoyed the creepy interactions.
Rachel Lemuix does a heck of a job as the daughter, and puts many kid actors to shame with her excellent performance.
Patty McCormick is fantastic in her role.
Brinke Stevens has a bit of a pivotal part as McCormick's sister, and lends good support.
The low budget can't be ignored.
It looks extremely cheap, but the effort is there, and I have to give it credit.
The ending sets up a sequel, and a sequel did commence, called Mommy's Day. I've not been able to find it, thoughFinal Thoughts: If you can find it, you may enjoy yourself more than you thought you would.
An over-obsessive mom wants the best for her daughter and for herself, but when she learns that this year her daughter isn't winning the award that she has won for the last couple times.
She marches straight to the teacher's classroom to make her change her mind and reward in to her daughter.
The teacher doesn't budge from her decision; so the mother kills the teacher and makes it look like it was an accident.
When the police are called in, one of the detectives don't believe the mother's story and goes out of his way to trying to convict her too it.Whoa!
I didn't expect it to have that much of a high rating.
After a friend told me that 'Mommy' wasn't too bad, maybe my hopes were a little too high because when I finally got around to watching it, I found it to be incoherently boring.
I know this is a limited-budget indie production that went straight-to-video, but it's executed without any real conviction and a lack of inventiveness shows.
Yeah, like others have said it tries to be atmospheric and psychologically gripping.
Half of the film was spent in very poor lit scenes that it was plain unbearable.
With such a restrained budget obviously the results didn't work out so great in the long run.The plot is a muddle of ridiculous plot details and twists.
Patty McCormick's character is named only mom and is kind of hinted, but I don't think officially as if this is a sequel to 'The Bad Seed'.
There's no real background or insight about why she acts like the way she does.
She definitely most interesting but its never brought out and most of the attention centres around the kid.
Starts off interesting enough, but not too long it falls by the wayside with a formulaic pattern of most thrillers.
The plot tries to drive itself with the characters, but they aren't that enticing or fleshed out to really care.
Gradually further the film went along the more I was trying to keep my eyes open and if not that I found myself easily being distracted.
Those many dark sequences where it was hard to work out what was happening attributed a lot to those factors.What's quite surprising is to see the likes of Patty McCormick, Jason Miller and Brinke Stevens appear in this junk.
Patty McCormick intentionally hams it up as the whacked up Mom. She's one antsy b!tch.
Jason Millar as the snooping Lt. March and Brinke Stevens as kind aunty Beth give dispirited performances.
The rest of the support cast were bystanders, but Rachael Lemieux as Jessica Ann showed up the big names as the little girl caught up in her mother's mess.
She was actually pretty good and definitely gave the best and most well rounded performance.
Really, that's not much of a surprise.The film looks okay, if even a bit stale and amateurish.
Although the bad lighting really did get on my nerves and lack of imagination showed up in the filming techniques.
That can be blamed to budget restrictions.
Like a fellow user had mentioned, it was shot on video, but it's incredibly grainy and shows up like a doco.
The whole set-up kind of reminded of one of those enactments you see in missing person's shows and documentaries.
While sometimes everything felt like it was in slow motion and the conversations were just laughably trite and unbelievable.
The awful tune 'Mommy's Day' that opens and closes proceedings is a real headache inducer.
I don't know why this film is rated MA (Australian) because the context is quite tame in retrospect and sometimes it came across rather childish.
When you're doing that you know it's not much of a good sign."Can we watch Seinfield" Now that's better time spent!
Great Low Budget Thriller.
I first saw the cover of mommy on a horror ten pack DVD only for 10 dollars.
When I turned it on it seemed hilarious at the start when she killed her daughters teacher by snapping her neck.
Through out the movie mommy kills and eliminates anyone who gets in her daughters way.
The acting is superb and is filmed nicely.
The daughter notice's what her mother is doing isn't normal and tries to escape mommy's evil lair of murders.
A good movie with an unexpected twist.
My review is ** 6.3/10 Acting ** 7.8/10 Story ** 5.9/10 Gore ** Overall 6.2/10.
The Acting is hilarious with a good result in the end.
The story line is original and excellent.
There isn't much gore although the death scenes are excellent for a low budget film..
Works very good as sequel to The Bad Seed (1956).
If I wasn't such a fan of The Bad Seed I probably wouldn't have cared much for this movie or even never heard of it.
Patty McCormack was awesome as the devilish Rhoda Penmark in the 1956 movie so I was curious what she would be like as mother in this unofficial sequel.
Yes if we ignore the very last scene of the original Bad Seed movie, "Mommy" is believable as a sequel in which Rhoda has grown up into a mother with a daughter named Jessica Ann. It's nice to see how this movie refers to The Bad Seed in several ways.
Mommy (she is never called by name) can't accept if her daughter doesn't win in a contest much like she little Rhoda couldn't deal with defeat.
The penmanship medal from the Bad Seed is here replaced by a golden plaque.
And yes mommy much like Rhoda eliminates anyone who is an obstacle in her (and her daughter's) way to fortune.
That she probably killed her two previous husbands for their money is exactly how you expect Rhoda would have become as adult.
The story is told mostly from the point of view of Jessica Ann telling us her feelings about her mother.
She fears her yet loves her much like Christine in the Bad Seed felt towards her daughter.
That Jessica Ann is a real sweet kid makes sense since this bad seed always skips a generation.
Really enjoyable movie except for the ending that was a bit over the top..
The Bad Seed has a seedling....
I never expected Troma to make something like this; Trmoa has a reputation for its low-budget horror and personally I really enjoyed The Toxic Avenger, Redneck Zombies and The Children.
This unofficial sequel to the 1956 horror film The Bad Seed went way beyond my expectations, and it even stars Patty McCormack, who played Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed.It's the 1990's, and Jessica Ann is a little girl doing exceptional in school, has a loving aunt...
but there's one catch, her controlling and obsessive mother, known only as "Mommy", has come to visit Jessica Ann's favorite teacher because the top student award was given to a Hispanic kid rather than Jessica Ann. Jessica tries to convince Mommy that her classmate deserved the medal, but Mommy refuses to listen to reason, ultimately leading to the teacher's death.
Soon Jessica recalls her "Daddy" who died, as well as kind old Mr. Sterling, who was her stepfather until he willed all his cash to Mommy...
It isn't long before the school janitor is murdered and Jessica Ann realizes that Mommy might be more than just her mother.At first I wasn't sure that this was a Troma movie, although the brief shot of a chemical factory shown towards the end when Jessica Ann and Mommy rent a motel room vaguely reminded me of Troma's reputation for making movies on the subject of pollution.
The acting, not only from Patty McCormack but from everyone else, was really amazing for an independent film, it's obviously low-budget but has great soundtrack and I loved seeing The Bad Seed's legacy being continued in a new film.
Not everything low-budget is bad, watch it with an open mind and you might be really surprised..
God Awful: Avoid like the Plague, or a nasty STD.
Firstly, the cast just plain suck, no decent actors in there at all.
The TV guide said it was rated 18, but I don't think there was any blood, swearing, sex or anything else you would find in an 18 movie in it.
It's just a stupid movie.
The plot about the psychotic mother is stupid, it's not suspenseful or thrilling.
It just made me laugh at the sheer badness of it.
The basic plot is that this little girl Jessica Ann lives in her house with her mum.
Her mother always told her to do her best blahhdy blahhdy blah.
Anyway, the girl doesn't win a prize at school, so the mother kills the teacher.
This leads to a load of stupid deaths, boring dialogue and basically a bland, horrible film.
If this film came out in the cinema, I would've killed someone it's that bad.
Then, I would take two Q-Tips and insert them so far into my ears that they block out any sound so I would not have to listen to the poor acting of a plain bad script.
Then, maybe if I had time, I would change the channel and watch Fairly Odd Parents.If this ever comes on TV, put something else on.
Seriously, change the channel, don't waste your precious time on this hunk of garbage.
Oh my goodness.
I bought this film as a part of a 10 horror movies for $10 deal.
The little girl was a good actress but the "Mommy"?
There was not much tension at all until the very end when she tried to kill her daughter.
That was about the only time I cared what was going to happen.
The story was OK but the whole film could have been so much better.
We almost turned it off but as "Mommy 2" came with the movie pack we carried on watching so that we would not get lost in what will be a very complex plot in "Mommy 2".
Avoid this film, it's not worth your time.