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‘Mom & Dad’: Film Review | TIFF 2017 - Hollywood Reporter

Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair get their crazy on as parents hell-bent on killing their own
children in Brian Taylor's black-comedy horror flick.

The kind of rip-snorting, relatively cheap and cheerful black comedy the industry doesn’t make enough of anymore, Mom & Dad is a deliciously lurid throwback to cult fare like Parents, Heathers, Serial Mom, early Gregg Araki movies and other to-the-bone horror-driven skewerings of suburban pieties.

Fueled by a great premise — something throws the instinct in parents to protect their kids into reverse, resulting in a worldwide epidemic of filicide — in an earlier era, this would have had a long life in repertory cinemas as a midnight special, but these days it will probably have a swift run around the theatrical circuit before hitting the streaming platforms.

Even so, Mom & Dad will do no dam