10 Horror Movies Actors Wanted You To Hate

10. Jennifer Lawrence - Mother! (2017)

Darren Aronofsky's 2017 Biblical horror chamber piece mother! may not be to everyone's liking, but there is no denying its visual, visceral and emotional powers. All of these elements are rooted in Jennifer Lawrence's performance as the titular matriarch, a pregnant housewife who treads on eggshells around a tempestuous poet (Javier Bardem) while trying to bring new life into the world.

Having made her career in The Hunger Games tetralogy, Lawrence was keen to do something that would revolt viewers and bring her a more adult image. Thus, she embraced Aronofsky's claustrophobic, full-on approach to filming and plot, diving headlong into a nightmarish technical challenge, with a rigid script and a majority of shots filmed in extreme close up on Lawrence's face.

While it was no cakewalk to make, the tone of the film is suited to the subject, which sees masses of people descend upon Mother's home and tear it apart, enacting out the worst of human history in graphic fashion. Lawrence herself said that, while most of the time her hope is to make a film that everyone likes, with mother! this just wasn't a priority: "That never crossed our minds. It’s an assault. I think it’s necessary."

And for whatever reason audiences hate it (snapping baby neck, anyone?), the gambit surely paid off.