Mum & Dad Review

Lena (Fedori), a Polish girl working at Heathrow Airport, is lured to the home of cheery fellow cleaner Birdie (Ainsley Howard) and finds herself impressed into the horribly happy family of chic sadist Mum (Dido Miles) and Dad (Perry Benson), a petty criminal who turns serial killer when he loses his temper. This Brit horror uses slightly overfamiliar abduction/bondage/torture but goes for suspense as well as uck, and writer-director Steven Shiel gets credit for his nasty spin on lower-middle class British social realism. Benson and Howard are outstanding as an ordinary Sun-reading bloke and his chirpy daughter, whose banal talk and family values segue into homicidal frenzy.