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- 1970
- R
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 30 m
- 1970
- R
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 30 m
Summary A psychologically-disturbed matriarch presides over her damaged family of bank-robbing misfits.
Directed By: Roger Corman
Written By: Robert Thom, Don Peters
- 1970
- R
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 30 m
- 1970
- R
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 30 m
Bloody Mama
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Summary A psychologically-disturbed matriarch presides over her damaged family of bank-robbing misfits.
Directed By: Roger Corman
Written By: Robert Thom, Don Peters
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
69
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
What hoists the picture into real substance toward the home stretch is an eerie and fascinating by credible sequence with the Barker clan holding as captive a blindfolded millionaire, strongly played by Pat Hingle.
A lurid gothic gangster psychodrama from Roger Corman, this is Shelley Winters’ finest hour-and-a-half, cast as Arizona Clark ‘Ma’ Barker, a role it would be impossible to overplay.
Despite such sleazy subject matter, the cast is outstanding, dominated by a fierce Shelley Winters, and Corman pulls no punches, delivering a searing Jacobean tragedy of a gangster movie.
The best performance in the film, and one of the most outstanding screen portrayals in many moons, is that of Pat Hingle, playing a wealthy businessman kidnapped for high ransom.
Roger Corman's 1970 retelling of the story of Ma Barker and her three loony sons in Depression-era America is completely out of control, but the smash-and-grab stylistics are exhilarating.
It's fun for awhile, but soon the sheer lunacy of it all wears thin as Corman keeps trying to top himself.
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