Creepiest Movie Mom (I'm sure there are some spoilers so be warned)

[LynneSin]

I'm watching Black Swan and it amazes me how Barbara Hershey was overlooked for her role of Nina Sears (Natalie Portman) mom. She has got to be one of the creepiest moms out there - no wonder poor Nina was a mess. I mean could you imagine having a mother so overbearing she makes her whole world about you to the point you're some 25 year old girl trapped at home being treated like she's 6. :scared:

What other Movie Moms creeped you out?

[redwitch]

1. Carrie's mom

Piper Laurie

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Oh, you betcha.

"First the smell, then the boys"...she was like the AntiJuneCleaver.

June:



Carrie's Mom:

[Lindsey]

3. Well, I'm on meds now so I wish I could contribute someone new..

but I can't. So, I have to agree (as least for now) that Barbara Hershey was sooooooooooooo creepy (I saw the movie recently so she definitely comes to mind).

[Glorfindel]

20. Oh, yes...Piper Laurie should have won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

for that role. Have you seen "The Grass Harp?" She and Sissy Spacek play sisters, and Piper Laurie is the nice one!

[redwitch]

29. No I have not but would like to.

I haven't seen her in many movies but she is always good.

[freshwest]

36. So cruel. I hate 'em like that.

[Bucky]

4. Mama Bates

We never find out what exactly, but she musta done something to poor Norman. (It's always the mama's fault).

[RebelOne]

40. Right. What could be creepier than Norman Bate's "Psycho" mom? n/t

[Arugula Latte]

5. Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People.

Cold as ice.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Oh, and how can we forget Mommie Dearest:

[Demoiselle]

7. Really really old movie....

Betty Davis' ma in "Now Voyager." Played by Gladys Cooper, a one-time great English Beauty, very frightful in her icy controlling nastiness.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Catherine Keener

An American Crime
Gertrude Baniszewski

:scared:

[LynneSin]

9. I saw that movie and it was a RL story too

:scared:

[pacalo]

10. I detested the mom in "Million Dollar Baby".

[LynneSin]

13. When she was at her daughter's bed side and couldn't be bothered to visit...

because the family wanted to go to Disneyland, I really felt bad for Swank's character. To have a mother like that was just disgusting. And all the family cared about was getting any money that poor girl made.

The woman who played the mother is such an underrated actress. I had to look her up but it's Margo Martindale. Because she's overweight she's limited to character parts, supporting roles but I always think she's got the chops to make the part real.

[pacalo]

23. Swank's character had drive & ambition, trying to make something of herself.

Yet her mother showed partiality to her younger sister, a no-account single parent who lived on welfare with the mom. All the cracks the mother made to Swank's character while glancing at the other daughter made me furious. And, like you mentioned, the icing on the cake was when the mother was focused more on what she could get from her dying daughter rather than comforting her when she needed her mother the most. Visiting DisneyWorld was priority no. 1 before she laid eyes on her newly-quadraplegic daughter for the first time.

[PassingFair]

27. Kim Stanley, as Frances Farmer's mother in "Francis"

Probably the finest bit of acting I've EVER seen.

[tblue]

11. The mom in The Fighter, because she gave birth to those daughters

the hair alone should qualify her

[pacalo]

24. Hahaaa! Just looking at the picture made me want to look up the movie.

I just queued it in my #1 spot on netflix. :)

[geardaddy]

26. Those daughters were creepy.

Great movie though.

[Lionel Mandrake]

12. Angela Lansbury in "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962)

or rather her character, Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAUm6l_t6k

[redwitch]

14. How could I have forgotten HER????

The scene where she kisses him is absolutely horrifying!

[K8-EEE]

15. Hands down, the mom in "Sybil"

70's TV movie, anybody remember that? And unfortunately she was based on a real, PYSCHO ABUSIVE mom.

[geardaddy]

25. That was my first thought, too.

That movie creeped me out to no end when I was a kid.

[woo me with science]

39. Actually, the real mother is almost certainly a victim in this story.

Sybil's "memories" of savage abuse are extremely unlikely to be based in fact. She is the poster child for the recovered memory debacle of the end of the 20th century.

Sybil's "memories" arose from the use of hypnosis, strong drugs, and highly suggestive therapy techniques, all confirmed by outside sources. Also, despite what the fictionalized novel says, none of the physical abuse was ever confirmed. Sybil's case teaches us much more about devastating wrong turns in psychiatry and pop psychology than actual child abuse.

It was a riveting movie, though.

[BlueIris]

16. Peyton Mott (the "mom" in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.)

"GIVE ME MY BABY BEFORE I BASH YOUR SKULL IN!!!"

[CBGLuthier]

17. Mrs. Joyboy from The Loved One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaGtDJo5R5o

[Throd]

32. They got a bigger crab!

[progressoid]

33. Love that movie.

To be fair, there are quite a few creepy characters in that. But a good kind of creepy.

[pacalo]

37. OMG! I've never heard of that movie, but I like its campiness. Just queued it on Netflix!

[RedCloud]

18. Xenomorph queen in Aliens.

That mouth within a mouth within a mouth looks so wrong!

[siligut]

28. Way to think out of the box!

I took her as a mother bear type, the way she treated Ripley, so possibly a good mom, just not to humans. :rofl: It was the mucous that really got to me.

[BlueIris]

19. Barbara Fitts--Allison Janney's character in American Beauty.

Plastic manequin mom.

[LynneSin]

21. Actually the dad was 100% creepier

Typical hypocrite conservative who was a closeted homosexual

[sarge43]

22. Maybe not the creepest, but definitely a contenter.

Mme Sabastian, Notorious

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

30. Elizabeth Moody as Mum in 'Dead Alive'

evil before she died and even worse after death.

[applegrove]

31. The mother in "Like Water for Chocolate".

[freshwest]

34. Mommy Dearest! Alleged by her daughter to a real psycho.

[freshwest]

35. And that 'Throw Momma From the Train' one. What a nightmare.

[woo me with science]

38. All the moms in "Jesus Camp" and any movie about toddler beauty contests. nt

[surrealAmerican]

41. Hard to believe that nobody's mentioned ...

Norman Bates's mom.

[Tikki]

42. Claire Bloom (Margret Ellingham) with her heart wrenchingly cruel dialog ...

to her son Martin in the BBC series Doc Martin (2004 & 2005).

Tikki