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* HeadSmashesScreen: One of the main antagonists gets a TV set crashed on his head through the base, his screaming head visible through its screen as he staggers around. Once he finally throws it off, he collapses, smoke leaving the lips of his fried face.
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* DiedOnTheirBirthday: This remake largely involves [[ABirthdayNotABreak a birthday party that gets interrupted by a home invasion]]. Near the end of the story, Mother shoots and kills the birthday boy, Daniel.

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An Axe To Grind is disambiguated.


* AnAxeToGrind: See GroinAttack.



* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Delivered to Addley via [[AnAxeToGrind hatchet]]. Ouch.]]

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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Delivered to Addley via [[AnAxeToGrind hatchet]].hatchet. Ouch.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards
** [[spoiler: Lydia is the dutiful daughter of Mother, yet she was the only one of her children to vocally disagree with her mother's decision to give away Annette to "reward" her virgin son Johnny and the only one to try to stop it.]]
** [[spoiler: Addley is easily the most violently unstable, but even he can't help being just as horrified as the rest of the captive house guests when he accidentally shotgun blasts Dave's head off.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler: As Mother points out to the remaining house guests, the entire awful ordeal they all went though would not have happen if Beth had not lied about having the family's money which was mistakenly mailed to her. In the commentary the director even admits the family probability would have just left had they gotten their money back.]]

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler: As Mother points out to the remaining house guests, the entire awful ordeal they all went though would not have happen if Beth had not lied about having the family's money which was mistakenly mailed to her. In the commentary the director even admits the family probability would have just left had they gotten their money back.]]]]
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: What Mother, Ike, Addley, Lydia, and Johnny ultimately are. [[spoiler: Even if it's only in spirit and not by blood]]

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Mother, Addley, Ike are still brutal criminals and subject the protagonists through a heinous ordeal. However their villainous actions are not done for sadistic pleasure, just extreme unexpected circumstances.

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Mother, Addley, Ike are still brutal criminals and subject the protagonists through a heinous ordeal. However their villainous actions are not done for sadistic pleasure, pleasure (well mostly), just extreme unexpected circumstances.circumstances.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler: As Mother points out to the remaining house guests, the entire awful ordeal they all went though would not have happen if Beth had not lied about having the family's money which was mistakenly mailed to her. In the commentary the director even admits the family probability would have just left had they gotten their money back.]]
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* BoundAndGagged: Our heroines. However [[spoiler:Abbey and Trina]] don't accept their fates and free themselves while [[spoiler:Jackie]] is being tortured.
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Three female friends on their annual reunion head to the Pine Barrens, unaware that the area's the stomping grounds for murderous siblings Ike and Addley, and their psychotic mother who drives them to commit their violent deeds.

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Three female friends on their annual reunion head to the Pine Barrens, unaware that the area's the stomping grounds for murderous siblings Ike and Addley, and their psychotic psychopathic mother who drives them to commit their violent deeds.



* PsychoticManChild: Ike and Addley.

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* PsychoticManChild: PsychopathicManchild: Ike and Addley.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Mother, Addley, Ike are still brutal criminals and subject the protagonists through a heinous ordeal. However their villainous actions are not done for sadistic pleasure, rather extreme unexpected circumstances.

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Mother, Addley, Ike are still brutal criminals and subject the protagonists through a heinous ordeal. However their villainous actions are not done for sadistic pleasure, rather just extreme unexpected circumstances.
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!!The 2010 remake contains examples of the following tropes:

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!!The 2010 remake contains examples of the following tropes:tropes:
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Mother, Addley, Ike are still brutal criminals and subject the protagonists through a heinous ordeal. However their villainous actions are not done for sadistic pleasure, rather extreme unexpected circumstances.
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!!The 2010 remake contains examples of the following tropes:
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The matriarch of the clan has a paranoid fear that her sister, Queenie, still roams the woods, and is afraid of being alone as a result, insisting that the boys never leave. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, after the girls have defeated Ike, Addy, and their mother, they encounter Queenie...

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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The matriarch of the clan has a paranoid fear that her sister, Queenie, still roams the woods, and is afraid of being alone as a result, insisting that the boys never leave. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, after the girls have defeated Ike, Addy, and their mother, they encounter Queenie...]]

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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The matriarch of the clan has a paranoid fear that her sister, Queenie, still roams the woods, and is afraid of being alone as a result, insisting that the boys never leave. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, after the girls have defeated Ike, Addy, and their mother, they encounter Queenie...
* DontGoInTheWoods: The girls' ordeal starts with them hiking into the woods to go camping. Later, they're being chased through those woods by lunatics.



* MacheteMayhem

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* MacheteMayhemMacheteMayhem: One is used to deadly effect at the beginning of the film against the hippies.



* RapeAndRevenge

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* RapeAndRevengeRapeAndRevenge: After [[spoiler:Jackie]] is assaulted and dies of her injuries, [[spoiler:Abbey and Trina]] come back for revenge.

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-->-- Tagline

'''''Mother's Day''''' is a 1980 horror film brought to you by the folks at Creator/{{Troma}}.

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-->-- Tagline

'''''Mother's Day'''''
'''{{Tagline}}'''

''Mother's Day''
is a 1980 horror film brought to you by the folks at Creator/{{Troma}}.
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* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding: The two remaining heroes dispatch Mother, Ike, and Addley, however, they soon run into [[MadwomanInTheAttic Queenie]] in the woods... Cue credits.]]

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* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding: The BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The two remaining heroes dispatch Mother, Ike, and Addley, however, they soon run into [[MadwomanInTheAttic Queenie]] in the woods... Cue credits.]]
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* PsychoticManChild: Ike and Addley.
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* [[spoiler:[[BolivianArmyEnding]]: The two remaining heroes dispatch Mother, Ike, and Addley, however, they soon run into [[MadwomanInTheAttic Queenie]] in the woods... Cue credits.]]

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* [[spoiler:[[BolivianArmyEnding]]: [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding: The two remaining heroes dispatch Mother, Ike, and Addley, however, they soon run into [[MadwomanInTheAttic Queenie]] in the woods... Cue credits.]]
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* [[spoiler:[[BolivianArmyEnding]]: The two remaining heroes dispatch Mother, Ike, and Addley, however, they soon run into [[MadwomanInTheAttic Queenie]] in the woods... Cue credits.]]
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->''No one can escape on Mother's Day...because Mother's Day never ends.''
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->''No ->''"No one can escape on Mother's Day...Day... because Mother's Day never ends.''
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* AnAxeToGrind

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* AnAxeToGrindAnAxeToGrind: See GroinAttack.



* GroinAttack

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* GroinAttackGroinAttack: [[spoiler: Delivered to Addley via [[AnAxeToGrind hatchet]]. Ouch.]]



* OffWithHisHead

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* OffWithHisHeadOffWithHisHead: The very first kill in the film, coupled with MacheteMayhem.
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'''''Mother's Day''''' is a 1980 horror film brought to you by the folks at {{Troma}}.

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'''''Mother's Day''''' is a 1980 horror film brought to you by the folks at {{Troma}}.
Creator/{{Troma}}.
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->''No one can escape on Mother's Day...because Mother's Day never ends.''
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'''''Mother's Day''''' is a 1980 horror film brought to you by the folks at {{Troma}}.

Three female friends on their annual reunion head to the Pine Barrens, unaware that the area's the stomping grounds for murderous siblings Ike and Addley, and their psychotic mother who drives them to commit their violent deeds.

It received a rather loose remake in 2010, which was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'').
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!!The original film contains examples of the following tropes:
* AnAxeToGrind
* {{Foreshadowing}}: By the bucketload.
* {{Gorn}}: Also by the bucketload.
* GroinAttack
* MacheteMayhem
* MeaningfulEcho: "I'm a sick woman!"
* OffWithHisHead
* RapeAndRevenge
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