Flesh Eating Mothers (1988)

Good movie but grossly overrated

Don't listen to the negative reviews

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Oh my... I didn't expect much, not even anything at all, but still, it fell short on my expectations. I'd say that this is one of the dumbest movies I ever saw... Honestly, I turned my TV off after nearly half an hour, because I couldn't stand it anymore. The actors were as bad as it can get. I wanted to punch every single one of them in the face when they appeared on screen. I watched the special edition, uncut and all, and still there were nearly no splatter scenes at all (Usually you can still make the bad actors and the missing story up if you have some good splatter scenes) and the special effects sucked badly. And hey, of course, if your mother eats your little brother you don't go to the police. You just scream (With no facial expression at all) and then you run off, smoking a cigarette with some guy and don't mind telling him.I want that half hour of my life back. I could've used it to watch something good.So, please, don't you watch this! Go buy Braindead, The Re-Animator or Bad Taste!

I am a B-Horror Movie junkie. I am an avid collector of blood-soaked schlock. Bad horror movies, in my eyes, "complete the circle" (its so bad it becomes good again by circling back up the quality loop) "Flesh Eating Mothers" is one of the only movies that I've ever seen that pulls a 520 on said loop. It is so bad that it surpasses the good mark and circles back down to the very bottom. I don't know how it did it, but it sure did. The film had all the tools to be a great cheesy horror flick. An 'out there' premise incorporating zombies, some corny-yet-amusing humor, sex, violence...in its respective field, it should have been a homerun! However, the very things that could have made it into a good-bad movie ultimately lead to its demise. The script became too corny, the plot became way too drawn out, the sex and violence became very sparse, and the action was just too too bad. It is up there with the most painfully long 89 minutes in film history.As a lover of bad film, I cannot turn those brave enough to pop this one into their players away. By all means, see it so that you may form your own opinions. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

Well, Flesh Eating Mothers is definitely as "B" a movie as they come. Although, anyone who knows anything about "B" horror films will realize that this is by far not the worst out of the genre. Flesh Eating Mothers is a film with tacky comedy, a few decent gore moments, and several little kids getting eaten.Basically, a venereal disease gets out in a small suburban town and a group of about 6 mothers catch the disease. It starts out with simple hunger then mutates into blood thirst. Soon after, these mothers don't know what they are doing and start eating their children and everyone else around them. The only hope for the town is a group of teenagers that won't stand by and see their mothers eating everyone. How can they stop the onslaught? I first saw this movie back in 1998 when I worked at a Video Warehouse. I had just about seen every horror film in there except for Flesh Eating MOthers and head to rent it. Well, I liked it enough to search for it 7 years later and now have a fairly decent copy of the film. Whether it is uncut, I don't know. But the gore is adequate in the film with a few scenes here and there. The best gore scene is when one of the mothers rips the side of her husbands face off. The acting was as expected, bad. But could have been even worse. The script was bad. Most of the movie was bad. Don't get me wrong, it is still a fun movie, just don't be expecting to see something like "Brain Dead" or "Premutos". 6/10

This is mostly a rebuttal to all the negative reviews this movie got. Warning: there are spoilers in here, so don't read on if you don't want some of the movie spoiled.I can't believe so many people hated this movie. What did you expect from a movie called "Flesh Eating Mothers"? Academy Award winning material? It's got a schlock-horror title, it's going to be schlock-horror! Anybody who watched this movie, obviously chose it because of it's title. And that's exactly what you got - Flesh Eating Mothers! Aside from the fact that it involves... possession, I guess you could say... the premise is pretty unique. Where else have you seen a movie about mild mannered mothers turning into raving cannibals after contracting a sexually transmitted disease? Granted, the acting is sub-par in a lot of areas, but I found many of the scenes quite funny. How can you not laugh at Rinaldi's mom ending his punishment early and letting him out of his room to have dinner, and asking him if he knows how veal is made, while at the same time tenderizing him to become veal himself... and then bites him on the forehead! The acting in that scene was fine for what it was! It was mostly supposed to be funny, and it succeeded! I don't care about the glass of milk. It's a magic glass. :')Another scene where the awkward guy/girl are sitting on a park bench getting high and talking for pretty much the first time: Guy:"so what's eating you?" Girl:"I saw my father kissing a strange woman, I mean he had his hands all over her" Guy:"that's pretty bad." Girl:"not as bad as seeing my mom >bursts out laughing from the pot< eat my baby brother!" ... Girl:"No, no, I'm serious. I saw my mother eating my baby brother." The attempt to convey the double emotion in there was a nice touch, and the way the actress pulled it off in the movie was great I thought.One reviewer below mentioned a midget. There were no midgets in this movie. Another said that this was a Christian splatter film. While it did mention God, that doesn't mean it was a "Christian" movie. By that token, The Exorcist and Frailty would be Christian movies. And to the reviewer that asked "what does this movie say about adultery? That the men can get away with it and the women can't?" Well, the man didn't survive to tell the tale in the end, did he? And even if there is a bit of one-sidedness to it, the movie is called Flesh Eating MOTHERS. If the men turned cannibal too, it'd be a different movie. And it'd be missing that dichotomy of the fairer sex - mother's no less - being made to be the violent flesh-ripping beasts instead of the usual male in the role.People talked about how badly the movie was made. If you want to see worse acting, check out "Redneck Zombies" (a good movie in its own right). If you want to see worse acting, script, and plot, check out "Children Shouldn't play with Dead Things". You'll think "Flesh Eating Mothers" is a masterpiece by comparison!