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This list was originally published on May 10, 2019.
It has been updated to include additional scary movie moms ahead of Mothers Day.
If weve learned one thing from horror and horror-adjacent films, it is that mother doesnotalways know best.
And by worst we mean a combination of incredible and evil.
Would you want these matriarchs to raise you up and run your home?
But do you want to watch them rain terror down on their outmatched family members and enemies?
Yes, of course you would.
She goes home to reconnect with her daughter, but then bodies start hitting the floor.
Could it be Lucy?
But suffice to say: You do not want to not upset this mother!
Rushmore of horror matriarchs.
Clare Higgins has a cold, severe gaze that almost makes Pinhead feel like a second-tier villain by comparison.
(The head nails are great and all, dude, but also a little obvious.)
But they are definitely not prepared for the horrors within.
A truly Hall of Face performance from Robie.
So she becomes Peyton Flanders and is hired to nanny the newborn of her enemy.
This is peak 1990s evil mom bunny boiler cinema, and it is glorious.
Also, Peter Jackson make more horror movies challenge!
Debbie Salt (Scream 2, 1997)
No, not that Mrs. Loomis!
A heroine of Sidney Prescotts esteem deserves a foe as noteworthy as one played by the incomparable Laurie Metcalf.
La Femme (Inside, 2007)
Insideis really a tale of two mothers.
Get ready for a lot, no likea lot, of blood.
(Generation Z could never.)
But just be prepared to pick your jaw up off the floor, andnevertrust Deborah to babysit!
Amelia (The Babadook, 2015)
Poor Amelia (Essie Davis).
Mina (Hungry Hearts, 2014)
Every frame ofHungry Heartsfeels desperate and tense.
Kendall is like suburban housewife malaise on cocaine and steroids, and shes the best.
Collettes performance starts at 11 and inches up to 20throughout the film.
An instantly iconic new villain (debatable!)
You better lock up your kids, because Red is not here to take any prisoners.
But it does land her in real ominous mom territory.
