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Jun 14, 2024 · Some characters hide their heinous ways beneath a pearl-clutching guise, the scariest movies of all time often coming with a mother as the main offender. And that's putting it lightly. But with countless horror movie mothers to choose from, each with their own laundry list of atrocities, how do you choose which one is the absolute worst?
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Evil Dead Rise
A mother wanting to be close to her children is great, but a mother telling her kids that she wants to cut them open and crawl inside their bodies so they can be one happy family is a bit too far. In Evil Dead Rise, Ellie says this to her three children while getting accustomed to her new role as a Deadite. You could argue that it’s the demon inside and not really Ellie saying these things, but from her kids’ point of view, their mother is now trying to kill them in horribly violent ways.
Friday the 13th
Pamela, or Mrs. Voorhees to the counselors at Camp Crystal Lake, is a devoted mother. After her son Jason supposedly drowns at summer camp while the counselors charged with watching him were making love somewhere else, Mrs. Voorhees punishes (i.e. murders) the teens she feels are responsible for her son’s apparent death. The camp is shut down, but years later Steve Christy (Peter Brouwer) intends to reopen it. Even after more than two decades, Mrs. Voorhees is still devoted to punishing the c...
Carrie
Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a young woman going through changes, but her fanatically religious mother Margaret shows her no support. When Carrie has her first period as the movie Carrie begins, Margaret says her natural bodily functions are the result of sin. Margaret also has a “prayer closet” for Carrie which she locks her daughter in whenever she feels Carrie needs to atone for whatever imagined sins Carrie has committed. Their relationship fractures even further when Margaret learns of...
Rosemary’s Baby
Rosemary’s Baby may be a controversial inclusion on the “Good Moms” list considering who and what her son is, but the fact that her child is Satan’s sonmakes Rosemary’s commitment to being a good mother even more impressive. Rosemary is lied to, used, and manipulated by her husband and their new neighbors, but through it all Rosemary tries to do what is best for herself and her unborn child. Even when she is told her child is dead, her intuition tells her that it isn’t true. Rosemary finds he...
The Shining
Wendy Torrance has to endure a lot throughout The Shining. For one, her husband Jack has a history of abuse and alcoholism, and it all comes flooding back to him during their stay at the completely isolated Overlook Hotel. Wendy’s son Danny also has some issues, both natural and supernatural, that Wendy helps him deal with. But despite everything, Wendy is able to overcome her submissive nature to fight back against Jack and save her son’s life when things get amazingly horrible in this adapt...
Poltergeist
Mother of three Diane Freeling will do anything to protect her children. After her youngest daughter, Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), disappears after making contact with the paranormal entities residing the family’s house, Diane is desperate to bring her baby back. Experts on hauntings are brought in, but Diane is the one who physically does the work to bring Carol Anne back to the world of the living. Secured by a rope, Diane enters a mysterious portal and comes back with her daughter in tow...
Sometimes horror moms don’t play a huge role in the movie they’re in, and sometimes a mom isn’t completely good or bad. Here is a brief list of a bunch of other memorable mothers from horror movies who deserve recognition. 1. Alice Sweet Alice (1976) – Linda Miller plays a divorced mother doing her best to help her rebellious (and possibly murderou...
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- Umma — Umma (2022) Many years after escaping the less-than-kind clutches of her mother, Sandra Oh's Amanda is living an idyllic life of beekeeping with her own daughter, Chrissy (Fivel Stewart).
- The Mother — Goodnight Mommy (2015) After extensive facial surgery, the eponymous mother (Susanne Wuest) in this Austrian horror film — remade in 2022 with Naomi Watts — certainly looks terrifying, covered in bandages and headgear.
- Norma Bates — Psycho (1960) Norma Bates may not actually be the killer in Alfred Hitchcock's classic, but her spirit is still the driving force behind Norman's (Anthony Perkins) deeds.
- Margaret White — Carrie (1976) In a movie full of pig's blood, telekinetic destruction, and mass murder, the scariest thing is still Carrie White's (Sissy Spacek) mother, Margaret (Piper Laurie, in an Oscar-nominated performance).
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- Rosemary's Baby (1968) Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby tells the story of a young woman forced by a coven of witches to give birth to the Antichrist.
- Hereditary. A24's runaway hit Hereditary put writer-director Ari Aster on the map as one of horror's most remarkable up-and-coming talents. Starring Toni Collette in an instantly iconic role as a woman dealing with intense familial grief as well as supernatural occurrences, Hereditary uses a demonic cult to explore themes of generational trauma and mental illness.
- Antichrist (2008) Controversial Danish writer-director Lars von Trier is notorious for his misanthropic and depressing yet visually stunning films. Antichrist discusses themes of original sin and misogyny, exploring the journey of an unnamed woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her husband (Willem Dafoe) dealing with her grief and guilt over the death of her son.
- We Need to Talk About Kevin. While many horror films about motherhood use supernatural elements to convey their protagonists' plight, Scottish director Lynne Ramsey's We Need to Talk About Kevin tells a chillingly realistic story.
Whether for Oedipal pitfalls exposed as the roots of a predisposition for violence or the primal area in which the violence is expressed, causing the mother to be either the victim or the perpetrator of the horror, many horror movies handle the theme of motherhood in a social, cultural and sometimes organic way.
May 11, 2024 · The Scariest (and Most Traumatic) Mom Movies: ‘Talk to Me,’ ‘Coraline,’ ‘Mommie Dearest,’ and More. From Barbara Hershey and her sweet girl in "Black Swan" to Norma and Norman Bates,...
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Oct 11, 2020 · The ingredients for almost every horror film include a monster, a killer, or a final girl. Some of the very best have a key ingredient that is essential to the plot, the mother. Horror movie moms can be frightening, as in Psycho and The Brood, or they can be comforting and powerful, as in Poltergeist and A Quiet Place .
