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    'The Parenting' Has Been Horribly Misrepresented and I Received't Stand for It

    David GroveBy David GroveMarch 30, 20255 Mins Read
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    On March 13, 2025, The Parenting, a brand new horror comedy directed by Craig Johnson, premiered on Max. The movie instantly began getting slammed by critics. It presently has a 48% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, however a 79% viewers rating. What are critics saying is incorrect with The Parenting, and what’s answerable for this response disparity?

    For one, critics mentioned that

    the fabric was not sturdy sufficient for The Parenting’s stellar solid
    , which incorporates a number of legends from HBO properties like Brian Cox (Succession), Edie Falco (The Sopranos), and Parker Posey (The White Lotus), and varied different stars like Lisa Kudrow (Associates) and Dean Norris (Breaking Dangerous). The opposite predominant critique of The Parenting presently in circulation is that it is not really scary sufficient to name itself a horror film.

    Nicely, if historical past is any indicator, style is usually a jail, and a number of the most beloved, boundary-pushing films have blurred the traces.

    In the event you take away any expectation that The Parenting shall be blood-curdling,
    you may simply be possessed to seek out it as enjoyable and distinctive as nearly all of viewers.


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    The Parenting

    MovieWeb logo

    2
    /5

    Launch Date

    March 13, 2025

    Runtime

    94 Minutes

    Director

    Craig Johnson

    Writers

    Kent Sublette

    Producers

    Chris Bender, Richard Brener, Jake Weiner, Jared Ian Goldman


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    What Is ‘The Parenting’ About?

    Rohan (Nik Dodani) and Josh (Brandon Flynn),

    a younger couple, are on the “meet the mother and father” stage.
    Wanting all the things to be completely good, they lease a rustic home for a weekend away, so the 2 households can meet in a managed atmosphere. Rohan’s adoptive mother and father are chilly and distant, whereas Josh’s mother and father are quirky and overbearing. If that was not sufficient materials for a pressure-cooker of a weekend,

    the home they’ve rented additionally occurs to be deeply haunted
    by a 400-year-old offended entity. What ensues is a fairly basic, darkly hilarious romp the place the 2 households must band collectively to defeat the evil forces making an attempt to homicide and lure them in the home endlessly.

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    ‘The Parenting’ Has One thing for Everybody (Besides Scares, I Guess)

    Okay, so I contend The Parenting might be not some good, genre-transcending basic within the making. It isn’t going to turn out to be Citizen Kane, and

    it probably isn’t even going to get the cult basic
    therapy down the road. Nevertheless, The Parenting is genuinely humorous. It’s definitely a minimum of price awaiting that cause. I laughed out loud a number of instances, which I used to be not essentially anticipating to occur contemplating all of the unhealthy press it has gotten thus far. Normally, when a comedy is receiving middle-of-the-road opinions, I assume it’ll telephone within the jokes. The Parenting, particularly initially, is sort of authentic.

    Parker Posey, notably, bought me a number of instances
    with some memorable one-liners.

    All of the whereas, The Parenting additionally occurs to be a

    relatively endearing queer romance.
    Whereas a variety of the time, queer love tales really feel like they’re hitting you over the pinnacle with trauma or patting themselves on the again, The Parenting is simply an unapologetically silly film about two males in love. For these on the lookout for a deeper that means, there’s a variety of proof that implies that the demons/ghosts within the film may function some form of allegory for homophobia and generational trauma (however I personally don’t suppose it was that deep).

    The error is anticipating The Parenting to be Hereditary
    simply because it has ghosts in it (so does The Muppets Haunted Mansion, however nobody is upset that that was not scary sufficient). It is thrilling to see a frivolous, candy, formulaic film like this give attention to a queer couple and stars so many A-Checklist actors, all whereas their queerness isn’t the predominant focus of the script.

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    The one conclusion I can draw is that the difficulty actually is about The Parenting not being scary sufficient. It’s entertaining from begin to end, witty, heartwarming, and once more, stars a variety of seasoned actors on the prime of their video games. Knocking a film like The Parenting for not being scary sort of seems like

    getting upset that Scary Film doesn’t have sufficient jumpscares.
    Typically, films can simply be enjoyable. There are such a lot of examples of spooky but foolish movies in our zeitgeist, so it’s a little complicated why this one was so avidly picked on for being tame when

    it by no means appeared prefer it was getting down to be The Terrifier.
    Whether or not this was an occasion of mismarketing or just critics ganging up on The Parenting is unclear, however relaxation assured it’s a pleasant hour-and-a-half regardless.



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