Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?
Lifetime | Release Date: June 18, 2016
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
3
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeJun 17, 2016
Season 1 Review: It’s going to confuse, and possibly offend, the suburban mom segment of Lifetime’s audience, and delight the ironic segment. (Hi, Lifetime.) It’s high camp, and whoever at the network green-lit it--assuming, of course, they were in on the joke--is brilliant. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineSal CinquemaniJun 17, 2016
Season 1 Review: Director Melanie Aitkenhead manages to weave Franco and Coney's allusions and themes seamlessly, and both the sex scenes and action sequences are executed with a kineticism and style that the dull 1996 version lacked. Read full review
75
IndieWireLiz Shannon MillerJun 16, 2016
Season 1 Review: If you strip the remake aspect of this project from your consciousness, it’s actually a pretty watchable film – as lesbian vampire movies go. Mother comes with solid direction from Melanie Aitkenhead and a tight script by Amber Coney. Read full review
70
TVLineCharlie MasonJun 16, 2016
Season 1 Review: The redo--in which Spelling plays the mom of a co-ed who’s fallen for a (gasp!) lesbian (double gasp!) vampire--is still solidly silly and spectacularly cheesy. Read full review
40
VarietyGeoff BerkshireJun 17, 2016
Season 1 Review: It simply plays straight-faced. That works at first, but the narrative is so slack--and the budget so painfully low--that the minimal intrigue becomes impossible to sustain. All aspirations to trash-art aside, it’s ultimately repetitive and dull--padded with even more overhead shots of L.A. roadways than “True Detective” season two. Read full review
40
Las Vegas WeeklyJosh BellJun 17, 2016
Season 1 Review: Overall Danger is a bit more fun than A Deadly Adoption, but it’s not nearly the subversive deconstruction that Lifetime probably hoped for when they hired Franco in the first place. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergJun 16, 2016
Season 1 Review: This is thin stuff and the only actor I'd definitively say is giving a "performance" is Meade. ... In its last third, the telefilm finally kicks into gear. That's when you get the blood-spurting, face-battering, knock-down-drag-out cemetery brawling vampire action that you want. Read full review
25
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonJun 17, 2016
Season 1 Review: Moody and bloody, directed ridiculously by Melanie Aitkenhead, it's a reanimated corpse of a movie that nobody needed. Read full review
25
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJun 16, 2016
Season 1 Review: There’s comparatively little tension, action or dialogue in Mother, but there sure is a lot of girl-on-girl writhing. Read full review
25
NewsdayDiane WertsJun 15, 2016
Season 1 Review: This new version looks like Franco moved on to something else long before he finished it. Read full review
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