It's a Wonderful Afterlife (Gurinder Chadha, 2010)

Since Bend It Like Beckham, Chadha has continued to live on its dividends with changes of setting failing to disguise that she's churning out the same romcom. Granted, here the mother obsessed with seeing her chubby daughter respectably married off has also turned into a serial killer who has knocked off anyone slighting her progeny, but it's still Southall and the perennial British Asian comedy's or drama's fixation with the expectations of parents from the old country versus the next generation's desire for independence. The record really needs changing: by now all bases have been covered and these directors aren't doing their community any favours.
That said, Chadha could probably have earned a reprieve if the horror comedy within, with the mother's limbo-trapped victims hounding her as a pack, had been either original or funny. But it struggles to manage more than hackneyed throughout.

4/10