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September 1980 (USA)
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If you go down to the woods today. more
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When you go into the woods today, you're in for a big surprise. When you go into the woods today you're not going to believe your eyes...
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1 nomination
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Top of the Trash-World, Ma!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Nancy Hendrickson | ... | Abbey | |
| Deborah Luce | ... | Jackie | |
| Tiana Pierce | ... | Trina | |
| Frederick Coffin | ... | Ike (as Holden McGuire) | |
| Michael McCleery | ... | Addley (as Billy Ray McQuade) | |
| Beatrice Pons | ... | Mother (as Rose Ross) | |
| Robert Collins | ... | Ernie | |
| Peter Fox | ... | The 'Dobber' (as Karl Sandys) | |
| Marsella Davidson | ... | Terry | |
| Kevin Lowe | ... | Ted | |
| Scott Lucas | ... | Storekeeper | |
| Ed Battle | ... | Doorman | |
| Robert Carnegie | ... | Tex | |
| Silas Davis | |||
| Stanley Kaufman | ... | Older man at Pool Party |
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90 min | Australia:98 min | Germany:76 min (cut version)
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1.85 : 1 more
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UK:18 (TV rating) |
Australia:(Banned) (1985 re-rating) |
Australia:R (original rating) |
West Germany:18 (heavily cut) |
Germany:Not Rated (uncut) |
Netherlands:16 |
Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) |
Finland:K-18 |
Portugal:M/18 |
UK:R |
USA:Unrated
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In the director's commentary, Charles Kaufman said that while shooting a scene Billy Ray McQuade (Addley) was so hung-over from drinking the night before that he threw up on Rose Ross (Mother). Naturally, shooting the scene had to be postponed.
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Continuity: Abbey's gag goes from being in between her teeth to over her mouth.
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Referenced in The Remake (2006)
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I think we're alone now
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"Mother's Day" is sick, silly and inane and yet it definitely is the greatest thing Troma Productions ever brought forward! There's quite a big crowd of fans that consider "Mother's Day" to be a pure genre classic, and even though I'm not that enthusiast about it, I really think it's an amusing mixture of grotesque splatter, eerie suspense and effective social satire. For their annual university reunion weekend, three girl friends go camping near the lake of Deep Baron's; just a couple of hours outside New Jersey. The area is deserted, apart from one cabin where a totally deranged elderly lady raised her middle-aged two sons to be perverted maniacs, skilled in torturing people and protecting their mommy from possible intruders. The girls are captured and serve as sleaze-toys for the two sickos. Poor Jackie doesn't survive the first night and when the other two manage to escape, they swear to avenge their departed college sister. The cool thing about "Mother's Day" is that it successfully blends two very popular contemporary horror sub genres at once! Two thirds of the film are like a typical hillbilly backwoods slasher in the trend of "Deliverance" and "Just Before Dawn" whereas the finale is genuine revenge/vigilante exploitation, like "Last House on the Left" and "I spit on your Grave". This is most likely the only Troma film that pays attention to atmosphere and set pieces! Even some of the violence is kept off screen to increase the disturbance factor, and that surely isn't producer's Lloyd Kaufman's usual style. Still, most of the dialogues are extremely poor and some of the gags and references towards other cinema classic are painfully lame. The end-sequence, on the other hand, is terrific and left room for a sequel that unfortunately never came.. If you only watch ONE Troma movie in your life, make sure it's either this one or "Bloodsucking Freaks".