- Network: Lifetime
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 18, 2016
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Moody and bloody, directed ridiculously by Melanie Aitkenhead, it's a reanimated corpse of a movie that nobody needed.
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There’s comparatively little tension, action or dialogue in Mother, but there sure is a lot of girl-on-girl writhing.
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This new version looks like Franco moved on to something else long before he finished it.