Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?

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Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?

TV-14

2016

1h 30m

Mystery & Thriller

LGBTQ+

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A mother (Tori Spelling) cannot shake the feeling that something is very wrong when her daughter (Leila George) brings her new girlfriend (Emily Meade) home to visit. Her suspicions lead her to a startling discovery that puts many lives in danger.

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Stef Schwartz

Autostraddle

Surely the greatest artistic achievement of our time... Why does this movie exist?

Aug 17, 2021

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Geoff Berkshire

Variety

It's a bold choice to devote a solid minute of the running time to the famed "Macbeth" monologue including the line, "a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing." Bold, and like the rest of the movie, a little too self-aware.

Jun 20, 2016

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Brian Moylan

Guardian

While Mother May I Sleep with Danger? aims to be both a remake and a parody it fails on both counts.

Jun 20, 2016

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Brittany Volk

Tampa Bay Times

The monsters here serve as larger metaphors, but thankfully Danger's heavy-handed themes don't kill a fun campy Saturday movie night.

Sep 6, 2018

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Chris Alexander

Alexander On Film

It's probably the most unnecessary and unwanted remake in film history and yet Franco plays it straight (ahem) and respectful.

Aug 14, 2018

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Allison P. Davis

The Ringer

[Mother May I Sleep] is both a knowing study of Lifetime camp and an updated execution of it.

Aug 14, 2017

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Really really dumb, its like a softcore porn for teenagers

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Contender for one of the worst self-serious movies i've ever seen. Misguided social justice tropes, abysmal acting (though the character of Pearl is almost tolerable) and utterly ruinous to vampire lore. I've come to accept vampire movies are 1 in 1000 if you're going to rate them by watchable, but this one has so many inconsistencies it feels like a competition between writers for who can out-stupid the other. The few gory blood scenes seem forced and out of place, yet it's not a light hearted movie and humor is nowhere to be found. Barely watchable on a second monitor while you're working.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Perhaps after watching this movie you will never wanna take a chance and wast a part of your life watching another horrible horrible movie....

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

Not scary or funny but fun anyway. Touch of nickelodeon farce on the sexual repression & sublimation that vampires represent.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

It was quite awful and cringe worthy. The whole vampire thing is just a bit too outdated now.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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stick to acting James Franco, & in my opinion, you're not that good at that either. This was worse than a bad B Movie

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Melanie Aitkenhead

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Leah

Tori Spelling

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Synopsis

A mother (Tori Spelling) cannot shake the feeling that something is very wrong when her daughter (Leila George) brings her new girlfriend (Emily Meade) home to visit. Her suspicions lead her to a startling discovery that puts many lives in danger.

Director: Melanie Aitkenhead
Producer: Iris Torres
Screenwriter: Amber Viera
Production Co: Rabbit Bandini Productions, Sony Pictures Television
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 19, 2016
Runtime: 1h 30m

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