THE TEN WORST MOVIE MOTHERS

KATE MCCALLISTER - HOME ALONE

Leaving your youngest child at home over Christmas once

is bad enough, doing it two years in a row is pure evil.

NORMA BATES – PSYCHO

Norman’s controlling mother taught her young son that

all women are whores and that sex is evil, and forbade a life

away from her. He eventually poisoned her, mummified her

remains, and murdered any woman he became attracted to,

while dressed up as “mother”.

JOAN CRAWFORD - MOMMIE DEAREST

This sad tell-all true story, written by Joan Crawford’s

adopted daughter Christine Crawford, claimed she suffered

years of abuse at the hands of her Oscar-winning parent.

MARGARET WHITE – CARRIE

Carrie’s religious zealot of a mother has a lot to answer for.

She throws scalding hot tea in her daughter’s face after

her first date, beats her having her first period, and

eventually stabs her with a knife while saying the

Lord’s Prayer together.

MAMA FRATELLI – THE GOONIES

This nurturing soul decided the best thing to do with her

disabled, deformed son was to chain him up in her

basement and deprive him of human contact. 

MARY LEE JOHNSTON – PRECIOUS

Mo’Nique won an Oscar for playing Precious’ hideously

abusive mother in Lee Daniels’ gruelling drama.

She allows her husband to continuously rape her illiterate

daughter, resulting in two inbred children.

OTHER MOTHER – CORALINE

The evil of double of Coraline’s real mother wants to tempt

the young girl into the “Other World” to steal her eyes,

replace them with buttons, and trap her soul in the

nether realm forever. Later, she transforms onto a

hideous spider witch. Just keep reminding yourself:

It’s just a kids film.

ERICA SAYERS - BLACK SWAN

Barbara Hershey’s pushy stage mother virtually

drives her ballet dancer daughter to the brink of madness.

She live vicariously through her child while dominating

her life, helping her undress, watching her bath, and

clipping her nails. 

MRS. VORHEES - FRIDAY THE 13^TH

Everyone knows Jason Vorhees isn’t the real monster

of the first ‘Friday the 13th’ film; it’s actually his mother.

The poor woman is obviously grieving because the

counsellors at Camp Crystal Lake let her son drown, but

there’s probably better ways to deal with parental grief

then brutally murdering countless young soles in revenge.

GRACE STEWART - THE OTHERS

If you haven’t seen Alejandro Amenábar’s stunning

haunted house film, look away now. The twist is that the

whole family are ghosts after Nicole Kidman’s Grace,

distraught with grief over her missing husband,

smothered her two children before killing herself.

Even in death she terrorizes her children, keeping

them locked up, away from natural light.