La furia de una madre

What a liar. Well, Prime anyways.

I have one rule: Watch a horror movie a day during the month of October. And I love to see New-to-Me horror movies, so each night I go searching for horrors I've never seen. When I opened Prime, they suggested this "Drama-Horror" movie. Yeah, right.

This is NOT a horror movie. By ANY stretch of that term. Sure, it has "horrific" moments, but those are only about 3% of the screentime. NO. This is a drama with many comedic moments.

Yeah, the tone is all-over-the-place. Act one is mostly comedic. Act two is very heavily, and justifiably, dramatic. Act three is Death Wish.

To be fair, I actually really enjoyed this movie. The mother, played by Siobhan Fallon Hogan, was thoroughly convincing. The story involves a family of six with the oldest (boy) going off to college and immediately pledging to a fraternity, much like his old man. Naturally, the mother worries for her son, and unfortunately, her concerns come true. After a hazing situation, her son dies.

And so goes her quest for justice. You will honestly feel to her very bones how distraught this mother is.

The unfortunate part was how it ended...without conclusion. Not sure if that was intentional. In fact, I had to rewatch the ending the next day after I watched this entire movie to see if I missed something. I had not.

Still, I did like the acting of the mother and how much I felt her pain. Though, too bad the movie wasn't complete.

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Final Thoughts: And too bad it wasn't horror. Stop labeling movies as full-on horror when it just has one/two scenes that are "horrific." This does NOT turn the entire experience into the horror genre.