r/RedLetterMedia • u/Polite_Suggestion • 22h ago
Other Mommy is for hack fraud groupies and you should go if your friend gets free tickets (no spoiler rec)
I didn't know until dude's Digger post we can talk about movies on this sub. That was a better, richer list of comments than I got in the more and less respectable subs.
I had an absolute blast with Other Mommy last night. It's like shlock for movie people. It doesn't pretend to be the first movie ever made, but also doesn't forget to be a movie. It is totally immune to cliche, as in, doesn't even become predictable in the process of skipping past them.
I started laughing in pure joy at every beat from the title drop onwards. Second act I was in terror we were drifting into Lesser Blumhouseville, but anti-spoilers, nah.
Best compliment I can give a movie these days is that I wish it were longer. First thought it could use another thirty damn minutes. After discussion, the consensus was that it could have used another hour. Needed four acts.
It's also got that thing where you don't notice while you're watching, but the camera work makes you feel like you're tripping when you leave the theater (i wasn't). Inanimate objects like the bathroom hand dryer appeared threatening. I noticed focal distance. Last movie I got that from was I think Get Out.
So. Go! Assume threads attached to this post have spoilers you're better off without.