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1. The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An elderly woman battling Alzheimer's disease agrees to let a film crew document her condition, but what they discover is something far more sinister going on.
Director: Adam Robitel | Stars: Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, Michelle Ang, Brett Gentile
Votes: 40,553
2. Mama (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After a young couple take in their two nieces, they suspect that a supernatural spirit named Mama has latched onto their family.
Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse
Votes: 191,412 | Gross: $71.63M
3. The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Director: Michael Chaves | Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez
Votes: 57,935 | Gross: $54.73M
4. Serial Mom (1994)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
She's the perfect all-American parent: a great cook and homemaker, a devoted recycler, and a woman who'll literally kill to keep her children happy.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard
Votes: 32,865 | Gross: $7.88M
5. Mom and Dad (2017)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A teenage girl and her younger brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origin causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
Director: Brian Taylor | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur
Votes: 27,486
6. American Gothic (2016)
TV-14 | 40 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The members of a prominent Boston family suspect that one of their own is working with an infamous serial killer.
Stars: Juliet Rylance, Antony Starr, Justin Chatwin, Megan Ketch
Votes: 4,732
7. Parents (1989)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects that his parents are cannibalistic murderers.
Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Bryan Madorsky
Votes: 8,617 | Gross: $0.87M
8. The Granny (1995 Video)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
Granny's family wants her dead so they can collect her insurance. While she is on her death bed, she drinks an eternal life potion and returns to the land of the living. She is on a mission to wreak havoc over her greedy relatives.
Director: Luca Bercovici | Stars: Stella Stevens, Shannon Whirry, Luca Bercovici, Brant von Hoffman
Votes: 762
9. Mum & Dad (2008)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
Lena, a young Polish immigrant working as a cleaner at an airport, is invited to the family home of a co-worker, which turns sinister quickly as the family intend to 'adopt' her.
Director: Steven Sheil | Stars: Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard
Votes: 6,491
10. The Afflicted (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious beliefs of her mother.
Director: Jason Stoddard | Stars: Leslie Easterbrook, Kane Hodder, J.D. Hart, Michele Grey Hartsoe
Votes: 1,496 | Gross: $0.18M
11. Baby Blood (1990)
R | 88 min | Horror
When a strange creature crawls into a woman's uterus she becomes a killer in order to feed the tiny terror growing within her.
Director: Alain Robak | Stars: Emmanuelle Escourrou, Christian Sinniger, Jean-François Gallotte, Roselyne Geslot
Votes: 2,333
12. Flesh-Eating Mothers (1988)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
Suburban housewives turn into vicious cannibals after committing adultery with the neighborhood womanizer.
Director: James Aviles Martin | Stars: Robert Lee Oliver, Donatella Hecht, Neal Rosen, Valorie Hubbard
Votes: 1,287
13. Wrinkles the Clown (2019)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Comedy, Horror
In Florida, parents can hire Wrinkles the Clown to scare their misbehaving children.
Director: Michael Beach Nichols | Stars: Christopher Barcia, Miguel Bey, Trevor J. Blank, Andrew Caldwell
Votes: 1,622
14. Baby Blues (2008 Video)
R | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his siblings from the mother they have always known and loved.
Directors: Lars Jacobson, Amardeep Kaleka | Stars: Colleen Porch, Aiden Kersh, Ridge Canipe, Sean Johnson
Votes: 2,465
15. Pasadena (2001–2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lily McAllister has lived a charmed life as part of the most powerful family in the upscale Southern California enclave of Pasadena. All that changes, however, when a murder and coverup in her own mansion thrusts Lily into a search to unlock her family's long-buried secrets.
Stars: Dana Delany, Martin Donovan, Balthazar Getty, Alison Lohman
Votes: 523
16. J-ok'el (2007)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
An unworldly, closed-minded American travels to a small village in exotic Chiapas, Mexico at his estranged mother's behest when his half-sister disappears during a local epidemic of ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Williams | Stars: Tom Parker, Ana Patricia Rojo, Dee Wallace, Jesús Ochoa
Votes: 236
17. Our Children (2012)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama
Happy couple, will marry and have children under the roof of the benevolent Doctor. Little by little, relationships become complex, suffocating the couple and the family, who are unaware of the tragic end towards which they are heading
Director: Joachim Lafosse | Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Claire Bodson, Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim
Votes: 3,139
18. Mommy (1995)
89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After twelve-year-old Jessica-Ann's teacher breaks her neck, Jessica-Ann starts suspecting her cold and overprotective mother as the killer.
Director: Max Allan Collins | Stars: Patty McCormack, Rachel Lemieux, Jason Miller, Brinke Stevens
Votes: 440
19. Lurkers (1987)
R | 90 min | Horror
A woman is haunted by flashbacks of her dead mother and visions of dead people floating.
Director: Roberta Findlay | Stars: Christine Moore, Gary Warner, Marina Taylor, Roy MacArthur
Votes: 539
20. Hellblock 13 (1999)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
In a haunted death row cellblock, a deranged female serial killer reads a trio of twisted tales to her executioner.
Director: Paul Talbot | Stars: Gunnar Hansen, Debbie Rochon, Jon Miller, Brian Kelly
Votes: 428
21. Darkness Rising (2017)
Unrated | 81 min | Horror
A woman and her friends break into her abandoned childhood home, where her mother went mad and nearly murdered as a child.
Director: Austin Reading | Stars: Tara Holt, Bryce Johnson, Katrina Law, Christian Ganiere
Votes: 1,504
22. Night of the Dead: Leben Tod (2006 Video)
89 min | Horror
Pregnant and frightened, Anais is not allowed to leave the specialized hospital where her husband, Peter has a medical internship with his uncle, Dr. Gabriel Schreklich, a man with a serum ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Forsberg | Stars: Louis Graham, Deirdre V. Lyons, Lola Forsberg, Joey Jalalian
Votes: 507
23. Dark Beacon (2017)
TV-MA | 75 min | Horror, Thriller
An abandoned paramour tracks her lover down to a distant lighthouse. When she finds her beyond hope she must find a way to save a child from the malignant spirit of her deceased father and the madness of her mother.
Director: Coz Greenop | Stars: April Pearson, Jon Campling, Toby Osmond, Kendra Mei
Votes: 1,504
24. The Abortion (2006)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Thriller
Eda was a dance student attending an academy. When she was a student, she got pregnant from her lover Cihan who is already married and has a child. When she realized this, she learned that ... See full summary »
Director: Biray Dalkiran | Stars: Akasya Asiltürkmen, Murat Yildirim, Kubilay Tunçer, Yasin Serif Tulun
Votes: 4,285
25. The Revenge of the Crying Woman (1974)
87 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Santo, a hero wrestler, helps a professor and his beautiful niece find a clue to a treasure that will be used to help local children. The clue is a medallion worn by a mummy in a cave, ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Santo, José Mantequilla Nápoles, Kikis Herrera Calles, Alonso Castaño
Votes: 142
26. Senrei (1996)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A fatal skin disease forces a beautiful actress to retire from the screen. She puts a sinister plan into motion to transplant her brain into her own daughter Sakura. She hears her mother's ... See full summary »
Director: Kenichi Yoshihara | Stars: Rie Imamura, Lisa Akikawa, Mie Yoshida, Chihiro Tago
Votes: 150
27. Mommy's Day (1997)
PG-13 | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The homicidal matriarch will let nothing stand in the way of a reunion with her daughter.
Director: Max Allan Collins | Stars: Patty McCormack, Rachel Lemieux, Paul Petersen, Gary Sandy
Votes: 229
28. Her Cry: La Llorona Investigation (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror
Crew of "Paranormal Legends" went to film their 4th season at the place where La Llorona (Weeping woman) was reportedly seen. Only thing that's left was 17 hours of tapes and 2 camcorders.
Director: Damir Catic | Stars: Nichole Ceballos, James Ezrin, Ron Gelner, Everardo Guzman
Votes: 98 | Gross: $0.03M
29. Las lloronas (2004)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
"Las Lloronas" is an adaptation of the legend of "La Llorona"(Weeping Woman). It's based on the story of three generations of women within a Mexican familiy. Cursed by la llorona, these ... See full summary »
Director: Lorena Villarreal | Stars: Miguel Rodarte, Elizabeth Ávila, Francisco Gattorno, Tina Romero
Votes: 109
30. The River: Legend of La Llorona (2006 Video)
73 min | Horror
Residents of a small inn are haunted by the ghost of a lady who drowned her children. She seeks revenge by killing off the inn's residents one by one.
Director: Terrence Williams | Stars: Will Morales, Mary Sanchez, Denise Gossett, Joel Bryant
Votes: 87
31. Child Blood (2005)
80 min | Horror, Thriller
A horror/thriller about a wizard who cures his sick wife with the blood of seven children.
Director: Bunjong Sinthanamongkolkul | Stars: Jukrit Ammarat, Arisara Wongchalee
Votes: 12
32. Desperate Love 1989 (1992 Video)
45 min | Animation, Drama, Music
Director: Takuji Endo | Stars: Nobuyuki Furuta, Show Hayami, Yumi Hikita, Naoko Ishî
Votes: 85
33. The Wailer 3 (2012)
110 min | Horror
Director: Javier Barbera | Stars: Josh DeLozier, Maria Pallas, Chris Anderson, Nicole Simpson
Votes: 135
34.
Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science (1997–2001)
Episode:
Sad Mother
(1998)
TV-PG | 23 min | Crime
For twenty five years a woman receives the sympathy of family and friends for the tragic sudden deaths of each of her five small children. Can good forensic science expose bad medical science to solve an unthinkable crime?
Directors: Alan Goluboff, Alan Gough, Richard Meech | Stars: Graham Greene, Karen Waddell, Domenico Fiore, Heather Hodgson
Votes: 5