As Barbara Hershey showed us in Black Swan , a mother can sometimes make an audience’s skin crawl more than any celluloid serial killer ever could. Maybe it’s because the mother-child relationship is one of the most confounding bonds in human nature; mothers love, but they can also be abusive, possessive, downright deranged or eerily vengeful of the superior offspring they’ve raised. Regardless, these menacing matriarch roles are regularly recognized by the Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Razzie Board and every award venue in between. In honor of the upcoming statuette season, and Hershey’s superb turn as the scariest mom to ever wield nail clippers and a pink sheet cake, let’s review the creepiest mothers in film.
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