Maverick filmmaker Frank Laloggia is a director whose facility for stylistic flourishes is more pronounced than his ability to structure a coherent thriller. MOTHER, like previous Laloggia mixed blessings (FEAR NO EVIL, LADY IN WHITE), is more intriguing in parts than as a whole, but it
does demonstrate that Laloggia is a rarity: a contemporary horror director with a psycho-sexual agenda rather than a hack mowing down his casts like a Grim Reaper working on commission.
Maintaining a stranglehold on her doting son Tom Hendrix (Morgan Weisser), Olivia Hendrix (Diana Ladd) lacks the normal maternal instinct to back off in the face of her teenager's sexual maturity....
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins