5. Lynn Sear – The Sixth Sense
Cole Sear is haunted by visions of the dead. He confides in his therapist who, spoiler alert, turns out to be a ghost. So throughout the entire film Cole’s mother never attempted to seek help for her clearly troubled son. Scarily inadequate parenting.
4. Margaret White – Carrie
Carrie is humiliated at school after overreacting to her first period. It’s no surprise considering her mother is a religious zealot who poisons her daughter into thinking she’s leaking liquid sin. Her manipulation ultimately transforms Carrie from an innocent girl into a raging telekinetic monster.
3. Mrs. Voorhes – Friday The 13th
Camp counsellors are stalked and murdered in this knife-wielding POV slasher. Twenty years prior to the franchise-destroying Jason X, the schizophrenic Mrs. Voorhes was the original Crystal Lake killer, seeking vengeance for her drowned son.
2. Vera Cosgrove - Braindead
When Lionel’s mother is bitten by a rat-monkey, all hell breaks loose. Extremities drop off, a vicar kicks arse for the lord, corpses procreate, gallons of blood is spilt and zombies are obliterated by a lawnmower. Yet nothing is more grotesque than Lionel’s giant undead mother beckoning him to return to her oversized womb. “Come to mummy, Lionel!”
1. Norman Bates’ “Mother” - Psycho
Psycho established the archetype of the horror mother, and the psychotic-slasher subgenre. The Oedipal Norman Bates’ attempts to subdue his mother’s bloodlust, coupled with a stabbing scene without a single shot of a knife penetrating flesh, results in a perfect Hitchcockian horror.
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