Mother's Day (1980)/Last Drive-In Revisit

 The Troma grossout personality is definitely in it's raw infancy with garbage filth brothers and their demented noisy mom kidnapping outsiders (women) to rape and torment for kicks. When called a backwoods piece of shit, rot-teeth Ike with his crazy eye takes offense to Beverly Hills socialite Trina's insult, stopped by little wolverine-like brother, Addley, before he can do the same damage to her as they did to Jackie. Abbey, with her hands all sliced up from letting Trina down and out of the second floor window in a sleeping bag, is very shaken.

When it comes to rape revenge I need the revenge to be savage in order to compensate for enduring the rape. Ugh, what happens to poor Jackie, with the slaps to the face, ripped clothes, and entertained sick party enjoying the degradation as if it was a romp, takes off a star, but the revenge as resilient Trina and Abbey carry away their beaten friend (found in a dresser drawer, discarded like trash) from the ramshackle two story house, retaliating for killing their friend, picks up my spirits. I needed them fucks to die horribly. I got that. When Abbey says they'll get them bastards, no matter of training montage should save them.

The Joe Bob's Last Drive-In was a bittersweet episode when I watched it in 2021. My teenage kids went to spend the night with my mom, COVID was still awful, my stepfather had died only January that year of COVID, I only had Shudder for a month, and I happened to watch this as my first Joe Bob special live. So my emotional state at the time was all over the place. I personally like Eli Roth, though he's definitely got his critics who find his place in horror overrated. I think he made a wonderful guest even if via Skype or Zoom or whatever. Talking this movie was fun to watch for me. While I don't have the fondness for this others do, the fact this was being shot in the same place as Friday the 13th is so fucking cool to me.