![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mommy in The People Under the Stairs (1991) I know what I’m talking about, I live in the south. ![]() Always watch out for the extreme ‘bible thumpers’. A mother, especially a godly mother, should use moral and powerful guidance to build Carrie up, but instead she wields that iron fist – clutching a kitchen knife – and spirituality as a device to literally drive her only daughter straight into the ground. Whether she is locking Carriein a prayer closet for hours or purposely keeping the truths about a normal menstrual cycle from her, Margaret White is the epitome of a hypocritical, overly religious, and everything but Christian mother. Instead of finding solace when she returns home from school each day she is faced with the Christian-saturated hellfire at the hands of her crazed mother, Margaret White. Our titular character, Carrie White, is a shy, quiet, high school oddball who is constantly the victim of her classmates’ taunts and pranks in the novel Carrie written by Stephen King and the film adaptation directed by Brian De Palma. Directly or not, these women prove that parenthood can be a real mother-you-know-what and they’re not here to deal with it. Horror shows us that the most horrifying realization we can come to terms with is that the ones who bring us into this world can easily take us out of it.īelow are the 13 Worst Mothers of Horror. Sometimes motherhood is not about laser-cut flower petals, warm hugs, and relaxing pedicures. With that, what the horror genre has done so obviously well is show audiences that motherhood might not be as rewarding as it’s cracked up to be. The colorful flowers, corny cards, and midday brunches are our attempts at offering a ‘Thank You’ to the ones who raised us, biologically or not, as we’ll do this Sunday, the 13th. If not for the nurturing care, strong, fertile bodies, and ongoing evolution of women all over the world humankind would cease to exist. Mothers’ Day is the one day out of the year we use as a time to celebrate the most wonderful of idols we have been given. It’s an analytically heavy topic that can provoke the most fundamental of thoughts, draw out the most genius symbolism, and shape our beloved characters down to even the most minute detail. The horror genre has explored a variety of themes, and often times the complexities, mothers face from conception through death. ![]()
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