5 Horror Movies About Being A Mother

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Motherhood is intrinsically linked with horror. Themes range from the body horror parallels of having something growing inside you, to the way that pregnancy alters the way one thinks and acts. Films explore the fear that something could happen to one's child, or maniacal matriarchs that instill fear in their children. Horror and motherhood go hand in hand.

Classics like Rosemary's Baby and even Poltergeist present strong themes of maternal fear, but there are plenty of examples of mothers in horror. From homicidal pregnancies to vampiric motherly protection, here are some horror movies about mothers that will make viewers think twice about the miracle of life.

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Andy Muschietti's directorial debut Mama wasreleased in 2013, and stars Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj-Coster Waldau. After the financial crisis of 2008, a distraught and deranged stockbroker murders his colleagues and wife before absconding with his two daughters to an isolated cabin to kill them. However, when he tries, he is attacked and killed by an entity. Five years later, his twin brother Lucas finds the abandoned girls and rescues them, not realizing that the thing from the cabin has followed them.

Back in suburbia, it becomes clear that the girls aren't the only thing that has come back from the woods. Lucas is attacked and ends up in a coma while the girls refer to Mama, who protected and cared for them in the cabin. As the story unfolds, Mama's origins become clear. To save the children, Mama has to be reunited with her lost child before she takes the two girls to the afterlife with her.

2014 Austrian psychological horror Goodnight Mommy sees twins Elias and Lukas begin to believe that their mother, who has returned