10 Scariest Mothers In Horror Movie History

Despite every other murderous mother on this list doing a grand of job of inspiring the willies in viewers, there's one perturbing parent that absolutely takes the crown for being the scariest mother in horror movie history. Both before and after her bloody transformation, Vera Cosgrave from Braindead is the most nightmarish vision of motherhood movies can muster up.

Overbearing, bullying, emotionally manipulative - this woman has it all. And then, then she gets bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey, and all of her horrible characteristics are bought crashing forth into physical being as she rots from the inside out.

Infected with a zombie virus that seems to kill her and then reanimate her, she slowly grows into a monstrous, giant creature intent on getting her son and his lover, finally consuming Lionel in the most fitting representation of overbearing motherhood that could be visually realised on screen. She's just downright horrible (and horribly entertaining to boot), making for the apex of terrifying mothers in a genre that deals with them on the daily.

Really puts the 'mother' in motherf*cker, eh?