5/10
"We Live in Strange Times"
21 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
It was negligence on the part of Yvonne Hutchinson when her baby daughter Megan drowned. Yvonne sent the children outside to play unsupervised, and when the child drowned, Yvonne never forgave her seven-year-old son Tom who tried but failed to save his sister.

Years later, Yvonne discharges herself from the Wingdale State Mental Hospital and makes a beeline to the home of her son Tom and wife Melissa. Yvonne fashions herself as the long, lost Grandma who wants to be close to her granddaughter Annie. In fact, Grandma has an obsession to kidnap Annie and raise her as if she were Megan.

"Killer Grandma" (a.k.a., "Killer in Law") was far too predictable and overly violent with casualties in the kind nanny Hailey and Melissa's bestie and co-worker Courtney on the receiving end of Grandma's malice. Both Tom and Melissa were slow in recognizing the danger signals on the part of the obsessive Grandma. Even when Grandma nearly runs over Melissa with her car, the couple still accept her story that "I must have put it into drive instead of reverse"!!!

After the senseless murder of Courtney, who had recorded Grandma's bizarre and potentially violent behavior on camera, Yvonne Hutchinson utters words that are a gross understatement about the vision of this film: "We live in strange times." Indeed.
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