10 Scariest Mothers In Horror Movie History

7. Sue Ann - Ma

Mrs Bates
Universal Pictures

Not every mother is biological, and Sue Ann's nurturing nature - to the point that the kids she's interacting with are calling her Ma - proves that nicely. It's only when the pizza rolls turn into gunshots and buying beer turns into stealing lives that her true nature jumps out, and it comes with deadly consequences for the teenagers that use her basement as a party hangout.

Offering her home up as a place for high schoolers to drink without legal repercussions seems like a great idea for Maggie and her pals to begin with, but that's until Ma shows her true colours - and they realise that not everything is as it seems in Ma's house of horrors. And then she cracks out the dog blood.

They become embroiled in a terrifying game of Sue Ann's creation, an act of revenge for her own traumatising past when she was humiliated as a teenager by horrible kids pretending to be her friends - the parents of the group that hang out with her now.

If it's too good to be true, then it probably isn't. Don't hang out in strangers basements, kids.

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