Mother’s Day Horror

Performing a quick IMDb search for “Mother’s Day” unearthed over two dozen different film entries all bearing this title, many of them are comedic film shorts... of course the most famous “Mother’s Day” of them all is the disturbing, exploitive, slasher classic from 1980.

But just as I was wrapping up my research on this “holiday”, I noticed a film entry called Happy Mother’s Day, Love George (‘73.) Apparently, Darren “Kolchak” McGavin directed two feature films in his career and this was the first. Also known as Run, Stranger Run, this PG rated “psycho-murder” flick has a wild all-star line-up, check it: Patricia Neal, Cloris Leachman, Bobby Darin, Simon Oakland, Gale Garnett, and Ron Howard! Synopsis: A series of gruesome murders shakes a small New England fishing village as an adopted teen searches for his biological parents.

Has anyone ever even heard of this film or have a copy I could borrow? Man, just when I thought I’d seen them all…