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From left: Kim Hye-ja in Mother, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn in Aliens, Joan Crawford in Strait-Jacket. Photo Courtesy: Magnolia Films/Everett Collection; 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection; Everett Collection

A few years ago, on Mother's Day, my piddling sister and female parent went to a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror masterpiece Psycho at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When I heard they did this, I loved it — I loved imagining the two of them celebrating their mother/daughter dynamic by watching one of the all-time slap-up mom-based horror movies of all fourth dimension.

I tin't resist telling the rest of the story. The next year, a local public radio station was doing a retrospective on Psycho, and my sister heard it on the radio and called in to talk about how fun it was to see the moving-picture show on Mother's Day. Equally information technology turns out, my mother was already on hold with the radio station, having called in for the same reason (you tin listen starting at the eleven minute-mark on that link if y'all're curious).

Now, information technology's possible this wonderful little coincidence says more well-nigh my weird family than it does about Mother's Twenty-four hour period more than broadly, just I do recollect movies have a unique way of taking our ideas and making them gigantic and strange. It just might be the case that diving into some of the wildest, spookiest picture moms ever is one of the all-time ways to celebrate a vacation about mothers. What I'one thousand saying is: I retrieve maybe my sister and my mom were onto something. With that in mind, allow's look at some of the most terrifying movies you can watch on Female parent's Day.

Psycho (1960)

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates' mother, Norma, in Psycho. Photo Courtesy: Everett Collection

We'll start with the ane that kicked this whole idea off. Psycho was a phenomenon when information technology came out in 1960, and somehow it notwithstanding holds upward all these years later. The movie centers around a man named Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), who is the proprietor of Bates Motel. He lives behind the motel in a big, spooky-looking house, ostensibly with his mother, but as we volition learn, things in the Bates house are not actually what they seem.

Perkins' performance equally Norman — a seemingly kind man overwhelmed past the strength of his overbearing mother — is totally harrowing, only the picture is such a fun horror feel all the way through. I of the best things nearly Psycho is the manner the movie changes once you've already seen information technology. Role of what makes information technology a great movie to rewatch, over again and again, is the style the revelation of the ending alters the feeling of everything that came before. When you've already seen it, y'all get to be in on the secret.

Carrie (1976)

Piper Laurie every bit Margaret White and Sissy Spacek as Carrie White in Carrie. Photograph Courtesy: Everett Drove

Possibly it's foreign to say this about a movie in which, famously, a bucket of hog'due south blood gets dumped on the main character, but Piper Laurie's operation as Carrie'due south mom, Margaret White, is the nearly terrifying thing in this pic. Carrie is the story of a girl in high school (Sissy Spacek) who's dealing with the dueling horrors of existence bullied at schoolhouse and being basically imprisoned and abused at dwelling by her religious-fanatic mother.

Role of what I love almost this movie is all the female parent-figures gone wrong. Carrie's gym instructor wants to assist her, only simply ends up making things worse. One of her bullies decides to start trying to await out for her, but all of those plans lead to disaster. Simply by and large, information technology's Carrie's actual female parent who forces Carrie to bottle everything upwards. When that canteen explodes, it'southward i of the bully cathartic moments in motion picture history.

Strait-Jacket (1964)

Joan Crawford in Strait-Jacket. Photograph Courtesy: Everett Drove

Another archetype of the female parent/daughter thriller genre, Strait-Jacket is a story of murder and trauma across generations. Joan Crawford — whose ain story of motherhood was horrifyingly portrayed in 1981's Mommie Dearest — plays Lucy, a woman who murders her cheating husband and his lover with an ax. After being alleged criminally insane, she spends 20 years institutionalized and so gets out and goes to live on a subcontract with her blood brother, sister-in-law and daughter, Carol (Diane Baker).

Based on a book by Robert Bloch, who also wrote Psycho, yous can tell this motion picture is going to be pretty over the meridian because the poster for information technology says "Strait-Jacket vividly depicts ax murders!" It absolutely lives upwards to that promise. Most famous for Crawford'southward over-the-top portrayal of a adult female losing her heed, it'south also another ane of those classic thrillers in which everything is not equally it seems.

Aliens (1986)

Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn in Aliens. Photograph Courtesy: 20th Century-Trick Pic Corp./Everett Drove

This James Cameron-directed sequel to Ridley Scott'due south 1979 film Alien takes the series in a more action-thriller sort of direction, but the plot of this film is all about feelings of motherhood. Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley returns — reluctantly and aslope a group of marines — to investigate a colony where she believes alien eggs still be. Lots of exciting stuff happens, but the most of import is that she finds and rescues a young girl named Newt (Carrie Henn).

The Ripley/Newt relationship is really sweetness in the face up of then much horror and terror and gore. Somehow, Aliens takes its exploration of the themes of motherhood fifty-fifty further, though. The group ultimately has to bargain with the alien queen — a truly terrifying monster trying to protect her offspring, just as Ripley is trying to protect Newt. It'due south these feelings of familial bonds and deep, preternatural kinds of caring for each other that gives Aliens the experience of a story that has greater stakes than Alien, even if both are undeniably great movies.

Mother (2009)

Kim Hye-ja in Female parent. Photo Courtesy: Magnolia Films/Everett Collection

This 2009 moving picture from Bell Joon-ho — the astouningly groovy managing director of films similar Memories of Murder (2003), The Host (2006), and, most famously, Parasite (2019) — is a subtle homage to Hitchcock'south Psycho in many ways. Mother stars South Korean actress Kim Hye-ja as the unnamed principal grapheme, a widow who is extremely overprotective of her son, Do-joon, played by the thespian Won Bin. Later Exercise-joon is accused of murdering a local girl, his mother sets nigh trying to show his innocence.

Mother is nigh bug of perception — what we're willing to believe versus what'southward actually truthful. The movie goes at that complicated theme with Bong Joon-ho'southward characteristically unique combination of one-act, horror, drama and incredible visual style. He's one of the best directors working at the moment, and this movie explores motherhood more interestingly — and troublingly — than simply about whatsoever other movie I tin can call back of.

Serial Mom (1994)

Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom. Photo Courtesy: IMDb

Nosotros'll wrap upwardly with John Waters' 1994 dark comedy in which Kathleen Turner plays Beverly Sutphin, a suburban housewife who's secretly a series killer, murdering people who fall brusque of her strict moral standards. Turner plays Beverly with a matter-of-fact kind of glee, in many ways veering away from the kind of campiness Waters' films are famous for indulging. The story itself is pure satire though — at her trial, Beverly discredits every witness, and is acquitted on all charges.

This movie also has a lot of fun with references, too. John Waters himself steps in, uncredited, to provide the voice of real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, and, at one bespeak, the video store where Beverly's son Chip (Matthew Lillard) works plays Strait-Jacket on a TV. I'll leave it to y'all to decide what you think John Waters is saying almost motherhood, America and everything else in Serial Mom, but I hope you'll have a lot of terrifying fun along the manner.

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