I actually saw the original Mother’s Day a long time ago and thought it little more than a sludgy morass of torture and pointless brutality.

The Mother’s Day remake, however, may prove better, if for no other reason than Jaime King’s in it.  This time around, Jaime’s going to play a mother living with her child and her estranged husband.  Meanwhile, two brothers start a killing spree to impress their OWN mother, and Jaime’s family is right at ground zero of the lunatic brothers’ next target.

Jaime’s got a pretty nice horror pedigree, including bizarre horror flick Repo and genre-standard remake My Bloody Valentine 3-D, so she should have the necessary horror cred to pull this off.

This actually seems to be some improvement over the original Mother’s Day, in which the two brothers also did some kidnapping, humiliation and various other nasty stuff to their victims.