Director: Caden Douglas
Sunday dinner turns lethal once Uncle Frank shows up in "Mother Father Sister Brother Frank," a 2024 Canadian comedy-horror from director Caden Douglas.
What is Mother Father Sister Brother Frank about?
The Jennings family has spent years perfecting the art of the suburban weekly dinner, complete with rehearsed small talk and simmering resentments nobody says out loud. That routine gets blown apart the moment Uncle Frank arrives uninvited, dragging old family history and a much darker agenda into the dining room. What begins as an already-tense gathering curdles fast, as passive-aggressive comments give way to real danger and the family realizes Frank isn't there to catch up over pot roast. Forced to deal with a threat from inside their own bloodline, the Jennings clan has to decide how far they'll go to protect each other — and how much of their carefully maintained normalcy they're willing to abandon to survive the night. The film leans into pitch-black comedy as much as horror, treating a home-invasion nightmare as an extension of, rather than an interruption to, the family's usual dysfunction.
Cast & crew
Mindy Cohn and Enrico Colantoni anchor the Jennings household, joined by Melanie Leishman, Iain Stewart, Sharron Matthews, Chad Connell, Juan Chioran, and Izad Etemadi in the ensemble.
Context & significance
A Canadian production running 85 minutes, the film sits at the crossover of comedy, horror, and thriller, using a familiar sitcom-family setup as the springboard for a night that turns violent fast. Rather than treating the horror and the humor as separate modes, the film keeps switching tone mid-scene, letting an awkward family joke curdle into genuine dread within the same breath.
Where & how to watch
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