Mum & Dad

At one point in this sordid slice of British horror, actor Perry Benson is seen wanking into a piece of human flesh. Funnily enough, if you were to re-edit the entire film, cutting out every other scene, the end result would be exactly the same – a vile piece of masturbation. Lena (Olga Fedori), a Polish cleaner at Heathrow airport, is kidnapped by a psychotic family who live at the end of the runway, and subjected to torture and household chores by the mother to avoid the murderous wrath of the father. Whilst writer and director Steven Sheil may think that juxtaposing extreme sadism with traditional working-class family values is oh-so clever and sinister, it ends up being completely ridiculous. Especially when it seems the whole film serves no other purpose than to realise some sickening sexual fantasies.

Ed Andrews