Mörderisches Herz

Somehow, a film with both Diane Ladd and Olympia Dukakis as two insane post-menopausal crazies isn't as entertaining as you'd think. Ladd has a 19 year old son that she's keeping tucked away at the shop they run together while scalding college admissions people, threatening any of his potential girlfriends, and being generally unpleasant to anyone who tries to take her sweet baby away from her. Mother is sort of interesting for the first half hour before it loses the plot and goes off on one too many tangents before you forget what it was about in the first place. It also attempts to keep things a bit too classy when it should be swinging from the rafters. It ends up being frustrating instead of exciting.

That's the opening line, except from Bing Crosby's "It's easy to remember" a song wish for me now spells psycho mom. Weisser (a very talented young actor who i hope we see of the movie screen in the nearest future) plays a young man who want to get into college but is nervous about leaving his mom. His mother however is doing everything she can to stop him. Her best friend Mrs. Jay wants to get close to Tom, even if it means murder. And when tom get's a girlfriend, hell's lose.

Now, this movie was GREAT! Awesome! One of the best Thrillers ever! Buy it!

I didn't think THE HAUNTED HEART ( As this movie is known in the UK ) was going to be up to much and it wasn't but this didn't stop me from enjoying it immensely . As ElviraVixen pointed out it's awful but will hold your interest for most of its running time .

The plot itself revolves around Olivia Hendrix a rather sad and lonely middle aged woman who has only one son Tom and only one friend Mrs Jay and because of her sad loneliness she smothers young Tom too much while she listens to Mrs Jay too much . When Tom decides to leave the nest things start to head for a collision course

The production values are somewhat poor and if it wasn't for some strong language you'd think this was yet another TVM but what makes it so watchable is the performances and Michael Angella's disturbingly seedy script . Granted it's rather awful but I did enjoy Mrs Jay ( Superbly played by Olympia Dukakis ) attempted seduction of Tom and the quite laughable dialogue : " Fuchsia ? But I hate fuchsia " and " Do you think you can remember that you stupid bitch ? " It might be a good idea to wear a diaper while watching this since you might just wet yourself laughing . The climax is gloriously contrived and incomprehensible but sums up the movie perfectly and my only real criticism is that we never hear Pink Floyd's track Mother which almost certainly inspired this terrible but highly entertaining movie