While Clint Howard's creepy features made him a natural for horror villainy, his brother Ron had a much more wholesome look; Happy Mother's Day, Love George (AKA Run Stranger Run), Ron's only foray into the genre, predictably sees the actor cast as the protagonist rather than the antagonist.
Ron plays John, a teenage drifter searching for his biological parents. His journey leads to a small coastal fishing village where he discovers more than he bargained for. The first hour of the film is like a daytime soap opera - a boring daytime soap opera that delivers zero in the way of frights. The final half an hour finally enters scary movie territory, with a deranged killer at work, bumping off several of the characters before setting their sights on John. The scares are tepid and the gore is mediocre.
The plot occasionally touches upon exploitative themes, including adultery and incest, but it remains relatively tasteful throughout; the majority of the film is dreary and uneventful melodrama, with John encountering various folk harboring dark secrets as he wanders aimlessly around the town with a slightly perplexed expression on his face.
The closing song is reminiscent of the theme for The Littlest Hobo.
Ron plays John, a teenage drifter searching for his biological parents. His journey leads to a small coastal fishing village where he discovers more than he bargained for. The first hour of the film is like a daytime soap opera - a boring daytime soap opera that delivers zero in the way of frights. The final half an hour finally enters scary movie territory, with a deranged killer at work, bumping off several of the characters before setting their sights on John. The scares are tepid and the gore is mediocre.
The plot occasionally touches upon exploitative themes, including adultery and incest, but it remains relatively tasteful throughout; the majority of the film is dreary and uneventful melodrama, with John encountering various folk harboring dark secrets as he wanders aimlessly around the town with a slightly perplexed expression on his face.
The closing song is reminiscent of the theme for The Littlest Hobo.