Parents

Parents (1989) is a pitch-black horror-comedy from director Bob Balaban — watch it online on iFILM. It's the 1950s American suburbs: manicured lawns, cheerful dinner tables, and young Michael growing increasingly convinced that the meat his parents keep serving came from somewhere it shouldn't have.

Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt play the most aggressively wholesome couple imaginable, which is exactly the point. Balaban turns the postwar domestic dream into something deeply wrong — not through jump scares, but through the suffocating normalcy that surrounds a kid nobody believes. Shot in a palette of oppressive pastels, Parents works as both a genre film and a sly dig at the mythology of the ideal American family. Stream Parents (1989) online on iFILM.