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Title: Red Carpet Double Feature: Fear/Parents (2006) Starring: Fear and Parents Director: Not available Rating: Unrated Runtime: 179 minutes Avg. Score: 5 Submit Comment Hits: 19

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• Posted on 2008-05-03
  Dark And Darker...
  
  I bought this double feature for PARENTS, but thoroughly enjoyed FEAR as well. I love Ally Sheedy (Man's Best Friend) enough to watch her in just about anything! Her role as Cayce Bridges, well-known psychic and author, was a real treat. She has made a career out of using her mental powers to assist police departments in tracking down assailents and (hopefully) rescuing victims. The idea of a psychic helping the police catch criminals is nothing new, but having a serial killer use his own psychic abilities to torment Cayce is definitely different! The interaction between Cayce and the "Shadow Man" is tense and frightening, especially when he decides to go after Cayce for real, instead of just playing twisted games with her. No one is safe! PARENTS is a tremendously wicked, jet-black comedy set in 1950s suburbia. Randy Quaid (Independence Day) and Mary Beth Hurt are the Laemles. They move to a new town w/ their 10yo son, Michael. Dad works at TOXICO, where he works on chemical defoliating agents. Mom is a perfectly prim housewife, always working in the kitchen on new and exciting meat recipes. Michael has a hard time at home, due to his suspicions about dear mom and dad. What does dad REALLY do all day at work? What KIND of meat is mom preparing? Michael also has trouble at his new school, where he draws macabre pictures and says some very disturbing things to his teacher, Miss Baxter. This causes the chain-smoking, school social-worker (played wonderfully by Sandy Dennis) to get involved. The darkness and dread in PARENTS are perfectly in synch with the bleakest black humor I've seen since Dr. Strangelove! Bizarre, unsettling, and dreadfully funny, this movie is worth multiple viewings. I highly recommend this double bill... P.S.- Yep, both movies are in widescreen, even though the box says full screen! No complaints here...
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2007-06-12
  "Leave it to Beaver" meets Jeffrey Dahmer
  
  "Parents," pulled off with maniacal glee by Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt, is a twisted classic from the moment it begins with an over-the-top trumpet rendition of "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White." The bizarre combination of high '50s decor, clothing, and architecture with a very disturbing secret is both creepy and funny. Part of what makes "Parents" so effective is that much of it is told from the point of view of ten-year-old Michael, powerless to act but certainly capable of understanding. And the title, as the ending shows, is perfect. Watch this movie and then eject the disc. "Fear" is just awful.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2006-07-19
  NOT in full-screen, YAY
  
  Just to chime in with the previous review--both movies are indeed widescreen, not full-screen. Even better, it's anamorphic widescreen (nice looking too.) Even the box states "Full-Screen Version, thankfully the specs are wrong. Much higher quality transfer than the original release of Parents a few years back.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2006-06-11
  Ignore the SPECS-They are both in WIDESCREEN!!!!
  
  I've been trying to get my hands on Parents on DVD for some time now and was very disapointed that the specs for this release state that they are presented in fullscreen. Someone didn't do their homework because I purchased it and they are WRONG. Both films are presented in Widescreen!!!!!!
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2006-04-16
  Fear/Parents :)
  
  This DVD is a good deal , full screen , but high qualaty transfer
  Parents has been out of print for a while , so this is the best
  way to get it.
  well worth the money
  get it while it is still avalable
  Score: 5