Mom (1991)

During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and ... See full summary »

Director:

Patrick Rand

Writers:

Patrick Rand (story), Kevin Watson (story),

Stars:

Mark Thomas Miller, Jeanne Bates, Brion James

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mark Thomas Miller	...	Clay Dwyer
Jeanne Bates	...	Emily Dwyer
Brion James	...	Nestor Duvalier
Mary Beth McDonough	...	Alice (as Mary McDonough)
Art Evans	...	Lt. Hendrix
Stella Stevens	...	Beverly Hills
Claudia Christian	...	Virginia Monroe
Maray Ayres	...	Carla
Christopher Doyle	...	Baxter
Tim Trella	...	Daniels
Ed Johnson	...	Virginia's Father
Wendy Gordon	...	Anchorwoman (as Wendy Jill Gordon)
Charles Martinet	...	Mr. Hernandez (as Charles Martinez)
Gary Marks	...	Meterman
Harry Landers	...	Bartender

Storyline

During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.

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Plot Keywords:

werewolf | monster | independent film

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Taglines:

Call her mad, call her a monster, just make sure you call her once a week!

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 June 1991 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mama diabolica

Company Credits

Production Co:

Epic Productions, Smoking Gun

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Seven Hours Later"
Music by John Debney
Performed by John Debney
Tifin Productions (ASCAP)

User Reviews

A superior and very different zombie movie.

Mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called Mom or with the word Mom in the title.

This is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there.

It is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation.

The kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger, who just happens to be a flesh eater, who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie, or ghoul, quite which exactly is not defined.

There is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified, attempts to help her by supplying 'food'. (I shall say no more about that, for fear of inserting a spoiler!) It is one of those 'quiet' movies as opposed to guns blasting, explosions raging, car chases, etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish, but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans, whilst also inserting sadness into the story, along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so-called 'horror' movies.

There is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film, where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her Christmas tree for company and looks so 'innocent', but, what she becomes!! Oh my!

A gem of a movie and even if not your thing, should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan.