dir. David DeCoteau
The Wrong Mommy follows Melanie (Jessica Morris), who works in PR or marketing or advertising or, er, something like that, it’s never properly specified. She hires the confident Phoebe (Ashlynn Yennie) as her PA, unaware that Phoebe has ulterior motives. The movie ensures the audience is never unaware of Phoebe’s ulterior motives, though, by playing a dramatic sting every time she appears on screen, and cladding her in a dark hoodie as she broods around plotting her evil scheme. Her evil scheme is a bit confusing though, and the film isn’t really sure what it wants to focus on as Phoebe goes from flirting with Melanie’s husband, to strangling a man who’s sent her unsolicited pictures, to stabbing another guy in the shower. (Note: the shower guy previously spends an inordinately long time discussing auto-erotic asphyxiation, so it is an especially missed opportunity that he’s murdered through any method except asphyxiation.) Plus, it’s hard to sympathise with Melanie, who begins to suspect Phoebe of malign intent yet still blithely leaves her young daughter alone with her. The climax is fairly standard, even though the motives are incoherent and the characters lifeless. The Wrong Mommy is part of a series of The Wrong… movies, and if this is anything to go by, the most wrong thing about them is people decided to make them exist.
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