Director Brian Taylor
Starring Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters
Rated MA
Score 4.5/6

A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.

Considering how easy it is for Nicholas Cage to flip the switch between normal and crazy Mom and Dad is probably one of the better movies that I have seen him in in recent years.
The last thing that I watched that director Brian Taylor was involved with was the TV series Happy and after watching Mom and Dad I am starting to come to the opinion that even he does have a tendency to bring some disturbing violence (and yes there a few scenes that rate highly on the disturbing scenes that I’ve seen scale) to the screen its more thought provoking rather then gratuitous. I also liked the points that Taylor made about how some parents might feel that they have lost their identity when they have kids when they realise how much their life has changed. Taylor also painted the phrase ‘If you do that I’m going to kill you’ in a rather interesting way with the ‘what if’ brush.