Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 44% (Critics) / 54% (Audience)
Directed By: Darren Lynn Bousman
Written By: Scott Milam
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King, Shawn Ashmore, Patrick John Flueger and Briana Evigan
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Synopsis: From the maker of Saw II, III and IV, Mother’s Day is a graphic remake of the Troma horror classic, Mother’s Day. After a bank robbery gone wrong, three brothers go home to hideout…only to discover that their Mother (Rebecca De Mornay) lost their house in a foreclosure. The new owners and their party guests become the depraved brothers’ unwitting hostages. Their sadistic Mother soon arrives and brilliantly takes control of the situation, ratcheting up the terror. As the hostages struggle desperately to survive the harrowing torture, they realize that there is nothing a Mother won’t do to protect her children. (Source)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uD6w_HO3lc
The Good:
I loved the way Rebecca DeMornay approached the role of Mother. She was like a psycho Donna Reed who would be all genteel and sweetness then turn into a cold sadistic shrew. She was legit menacing.
This movie also gets points for the way it showed how normal people will begin to change once put under extreme circumstances. Watching this group of friends and neighbors begin to turn on one another and give in to their baser instincts was fun to watch.

The Bad:
However, as fun as it was to watch these people turn on each other like rabid dogs, it did remove any rooting factor I wanted to have for them as victims of this twisted family. Its kind of hard to want to watch a bunch of scumbags triumph over a bunch of psychos.

The Ugly
Some of these characters were as dumb as toenail clippings and the amount of suspension of belief it takes to overlook their stupidity sometimes bordered on the impossible.

Final Verdict: A nicely tense little horror movie featuring a number of actors in the cast that are familiar faces in movies and TV and a pretty intense starring turn by DeMornay helps to overcome some of the glaring flaws and keep your attention.

Grade: B-