On this day in horror history, John Waters’ horror-comedy Serial Mom with Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, and also Matthew Lillard opened back in 1994.
It tells the tale of happy housewife Beverly who has a charmed life – a beautiful suburban home, a successful dentist husband, and two normal teenagers. However, when one of her son’s teachers speaks disparagingly of the boy at a parent-teacher conference, Bev runs the instructor over in the school parking lot. Suddenly she has an insatiable taste for murder. Six homicides later, the cops get wise to her crimes.
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While developing the movie, Waters suggested other actresses for the lead role including Meryl Streep, Kathy Bates, and also Glenn Close, before Turner was cast.
Patty Hearst, Suzanne Somers, Joan Rivers, and also Traci Lords cameo in the film. Serial Mom was released theatrically to mixed to positive reviews and was a box office bomb, grossing only $8M from a $13M budget. Since then, however, the film is now regarded as a cult classic. This was one of the first horror movies I ever watched.
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