I learned my lesson after watching Blood Sucking Freaks and stopped watching this movie after the old woman strangles the woman at the very beginning, one of many I am sure.

Short Review :
Like other reviews have said and I want to back up : if you have grown up aware of Troma and it's contemporaries and Troma's intent, you know this is meant to be fun while still addressing little niggling popular - 'popular' as in the wide range of people's perceptions, not as in 'most celebrated' issues - which were and are often still ignored in fluffier fare, even the News media of much but not all of the pre90s era.
(a few 'Mothers Day' anti-yuppie/preppie examples: 'as long as I'm a black man in america', 'Rockefeller makes 1,000,000 dollars a day' 'Dobber, what an asshole'...This guy's been ****ing on you for 6 months')
This plot and character arcs are more interesting and consisitent than the modern one-a-day productions with the CGI etc. hiding poor quality everywhere else in the films.
Just enjoy the mindless entertainment as an escape from hard thinking, which is what it's meant to be.If you look at your favorite horror directors, you'll find alot of them admire and emulate Troma. One of Troma's hallmarks was excessive blood for fun which is definitely a bigger theme today than before them and part of why they has less funding -they had a vision and followed it, not the money.
The first tries at creative development are always the example used to follow but compartively not always as impressive.You might as well make fun of original cell phones and computers : pointless. In 10 years, today will seem 'lame'.Enjoy things within their context, I do when reading overly misspelled reviews with misused euphemisms and naive blanket statements ;r ie: It's the internet, not ivy league speech and debate.

but I liked this movie.
I liked how the characters of the mother and sons were well developed.
I don't know if the makers realized in 1980 how much pop culture they were including in the movie.
5 stars because I took it for what it was meant to be--a B Movie!!

Amusing 80's references everything else is abusive and degrading and they don't even survive. Just Troma Sludge.

What a wonderful statement of America, or maybe it's the Church, where crazy,depraved, perverted,sadistic behavior is actually accepted and considered normal. What a thought-provoking comment on the world today! loved it! The pope must love this movie,or maybe not, there are no little boys in it. Anyway great movie! And remember people, you are only as good as the mother who raised you.

This is Troma. A small company (in New Jersey!!!) that made campy, funny, cheap films in the 80's and surprisingly had a few major cult hits. This is not supposed to be academy award material, just take it as cheap as it is. Troma made no lies about its films, theyw ere what they were. Cheap and funny, and send offs of other horror films. If you've come herefor major horror stimulation, this ain't it. Troma films AREN'T supposed to be. Sometimes, an independent film studio needs to be silly, and Troma was it. I wish there were a film company today to compare but now everyone with access to a camera and a studio takes things so seriously. Troma never did. Enjoy...its bad.