Everyone can relate to a mothers fear of losing their child.
It is even scarier when the threat is to turn the child against their own mother.
Netflixs Bird Box gives audiences mere glimpses of the movies eerie creatures.
We explain the monsters, what they want, and what the ending means.
This is a unique situation for a mother in a horror movie.
Beverly was raised to believe she should protect her family at all costs, which is what she does.
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Instead, throughoutThe Babadook, she creates a creepy atmosphere.
She feels trapped now, with her son holding on too tightly.
What makesThe Babadookso frightening is what isn’t shown on the screen.
Amelia is a widowed single mother whose husband died before her son was born.
Bringing this to the horror genre, Jordan Peele told the story of motherhood taken to the extreme.
Usis a story about the uncertainty of African American motherhood and familial intimacy.
Bringing this to the horror genre, Jordan Peele told the story of motherhood taken to the extreme.
The movie is as much about a mothers anxiety as it is about demonic possession.
InA Quiet Place,breaking the silence means courting death.
However, there is another aspect of motherhood inA Quiet Place.
With that said, Evelyn is also pregnant and delivers her baby without making a sound.
The movies overt religious themes and graphic violence were met with controversy.
But deep down,mother!is a story about a mom trying to protect her baby.
Its just as tightly crafted, tautly terrifying, and full of thought-provoking themes.
Even the xenomorph queen is a mother trying to protect her young.
Annie feels intense grief, rage, and resentment toward the son responsible for Charlies death.
Not only isHereditarya chilling tale of pagan cultists, but its also a harrowing family tragedy.
Before then, it could feasibly all be in Rosemarys head, like the people around her keep insisting.
So many movies about motherhood owe their existence to whatRosemary’s Babydid first.
