Mommy's Epitaph (1987)

Mommy's Epitaph (1987)
aka: Epitaph
Director: Joseph Merhi
Writer: Joseph Merhi
Cast: Natasha Pavlovich, Delores Nascar, Jimmy Williams
A family must keep moving from town to town because the mother is a psychotic axe murderer who keeps flipping out and murdering people.

Tale about the Fulton family who have to keep moving homes because alcoholic mother Martha kills most the men she meets. The daughter Amy as had enough of these moves and wants to settle down, expecially now she's met a new boyfriend Wayne. Her father does his best to sort the family out by hiring a psychiatrists to pose as Marthas friend in the hope she can help. Only things don't go to plan as Martha ends up killing both her husband and the psychiatrists then continues with her killing ways.

Released by troma but for change it isn't exactly played for crude laughs (well theres some but its not the usual lame gags about shit or bewbs). It contains one of the wildest onscreen deaths I've seen since Vincent Price played Dr Phibes. Martha puts a rat in a bucket and ties it to the psychiatrists stomach, then heats the bucket until the rat eats its way through the woman exiting her back. One of the more memorable Troma releases this purely because Joseph Merhi tries to stick to his own penned script. Recommended to fans of classic gory dramas like the kind HG Lewis used to make.

(6½ out of 10)