Absolute Worst Movie Moms Of All Time

#1 Helen ‘MAMA’ Boucher – The Waterboy

There's overprotective and then there's Mama Boucher. As if raising your child in a shack on the Bayou wasn't foster home-inflaming as it is, she managed to mollycoddle him to the point of borderline retardation. He's just lucky he can kick an American Football half-decently or we have the feeling he'd be staring down the abuse-end of a Deliverance existence. She goes to extremes to dole out life lessons for every part of his life, leaving him with some pent up aggression and a lingering stutter that results in ridicule from everyone he meets. She even tells him that playing football is a sin, and forces him to leave his newfound girlfriend. Way to mother, Kathy Bates.

#2 Margaret White - Carrie

Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) had the worst of all worlds. Not only was she bullied by her classmates, but she also was bullied by her religious fanatic mother (Piper Laurie), who locked Carrie in the closet with a shrine. Also, telling Carrie that menstruation resulted from impure thoughts probably wasn't the greatest parenting move. She's a violent religious fanatic prone to wild mood swings and manic episodes. It's basically like being raised by a coke-fueled female Glenn Beck. If Margaret only locks you in a closet without supper and forces you to pray, consider yourself lucky. Piper Laurie earned an Oscar nomination for her over the top religious fanatic role.

#3 Mrs. Lift - Throw Momma From The Train

Who wouldn't want to throw this bitch from a train? Owen Lift tries to get his new friend Larry Donner to kill his mother, and with pretty good cause. She's just awful, in that twisted, angry way all Anne Ramsey characters were awful. (You may also remember has the mean mom from "The Goonies.") When the very sound of your mother's voice is so abrasive it's taking over your dreams, what's a man to do? That's where Owen's pact with novelist Larry Donner comes in. The woman just won't die, hard as Donner tries to kill her, it becomes a farce to see that every attempt goes unthwarted as Momma proves to be indestructible, as most moms are.

#4 Kate McCallister – Home Alone

It's a dream come true for any prepubescent boy to be left to their own devices. Of course, on the other hand, it's a mother's absolute worst nightmare, discovering that her child has suddenly disappeared like a pair of misplaced keys. We think that even if Kevin McCallister had a GPS tracker on his head at all times, his mother would find a way to lose him again. Come on, she's done it twice already once at the family home and the other in the Big Apple and both times during the holidays of all times. Sure, Kevin can take care of himself, but Kate really deserves a timeout for her mistakes.

#5 Charlotte Goetz - The Diary Of A Teenage Girl

Mothers and daughter have a weird bond. They hate to love each other. When puberty hits, that feeling is magnified tenfold. Even the most attentive mothers can let big life changes go unnoticed when their teenaged girls decide to run free. But Charlotte takes the cake when it comes to letting her daughter run rampant. 15-year-old Minnie is having an affair with her mother's boyfriend Monroe, a man 20 years her senior. As Charlotte's nights of reckless partying worsen, we witness an adolescent's insecurities being exploited. But Charlotte is so enamored by his prowess that she lets the entire thing go unnoticed for what seems like forever, at least until Minnie's innocence is totally lost.

#6 Mrs. Stifler - American Pie

For one particular set of teens in American Pie, it was Stifler's mom that restructured the motherly image which led to the creation of the MILF, a new word to categorize the teenage mom crush. Mrs. Stifler is portrayed, the embarrassing party-goer with an overt display of sex appeal to boot. She gets a pretty well-deserved reputation as being a slutty mom when she finally sleeps with her son's friend, the nerdy Finch. Stifler's Mom is played to a comedic screech by actress Jennifer Coolidge who is now on 'Two Broke Girls'.

#7 Beverly Sutphin - Serial Mom

Well, nobody could argue that Beverly Sutphin didn't love her family. Trouble was, she loved them a little too much. When her son's math teacher criticized him, Beverly ran him over with her car. When her daughter got ditched by her date, Beverly murdered him too. As serial killers go, Kathleen Turner's titular suburban housewife at least dispatches some of her victims for the kind of noble reason of slighting her children. But even her own kids (played by Ricky Lake and Matthew Lilliard) know better than to get on her bad side.

#8 Madame Sebastian - Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock had a vexatious history when it came to mothers. We all know about Norma Bates and her cross-dressing son, but other infamous Hitchcock baddies were also the result of a mother's unspoken affections. Most notably is Alex Sebastian, the leading bad man for a secret organization of Nazis living in post-World War II Brazil. Madame Sebastian disapproves of her son's new wife. She has a sneaking suspicion about Alicia's sudden liking to her son and questions her true motives. She slips arsenic into her daughter-in-law's morning coffee every day, keeping her bed-ridden. In the film's final romantic gesture, Devlin storms into the Sebastian household, blowing his cover and rescuing his partner. Meanwhile, Alex is left to deal with his Nazi mother's ever-growing regret in raising such an easily manipulated pushover. This is one bad mother you don't want to mess with!

#9 Lorraine Baines McFly - Back To The Future

There's the big obvious strike against Lorraine, which is that she develops a crush on her own son. I know she didn't KNOW it was her son, but still...gross...But then also consider how superficial she is! Zero interest in George McFly, awkward but sincere pacifist. But once he starts punching bigger dudes in the face, it's flirt city. Let's not forget that this self-absorbed mother lets her son hang out with a white-haired scientist with ties to a Libyan terrorist organization who claimed to have a time traveling DeLorean. On the off chance that there is a way to forgive Marty's mother for letting him hang out with a potential paranoid Schizophrenic, there's still no way to get over her going all googly-eyed for her teenage son and kissing him at the 1955 high school dance. If there is such thing as a mother's instinct, Lorraine's is far from the best. Some mothers just don't have the maternal gene inside them, and no amount of time travel can ever fix that.

#10 Beth Jarrett - Ordinary People

The Jarretts are ordinary people, but they are extraordinarily privileged. When one son accidentally drowns, Beth, played by MNary Tyler Moore, goes a little off base. She blames the second son, Conrad, played by Timothy Hutton, for the death of her "favorite" boy. Her portrayal as the very cold and aloof mother sets Conrad into a deep depression where the only thing Beth can say when he tries to kill himself in the bathroom is "things would be okay if you just didn't leave such a mess." She tells the psychiatrist, she will never forgive him for, among other things, having ruined the bathroom rug when he cut his wrists. ''She had to pitch it out,'' she says. ''They even had to regrout the tile floor.''

#11 Mrs. Iselin - The Manchurian Candidate

At the height of the Cold War, when director John Frankenheimer's espionage thriller first ran in theaters, Angela Lansbury's Machiavellian matriarch must have seemed even more terrifying. After all, brainwashing your own son to become a Communist assassin is slightly more invasive than forcing him to eat his vegetables.Brainwashing your kids into eating their vegetables and saying "please" and "thank you" is one thing. But brainwashing your son to turn him into an assassin to forward your villainous play for world domination? That's where most reasonable people draw the line.

#12 Lilly Dillon - The Grifters

Lilly Dillon is a desperate con woman. So, already, there's a strike against. But then, during the course of "The Grifters," she'll basic wreck havoc all over her son Roy's life, even going so far as to MURDER his girlfriend. That'll really drive a wedge into a mother-son relationship. Roy understands the life of the grift. He's been on the receiving end of another's fists many times. Even his social life has been inadvertently taken over by the grift. His girlfriend Myra is also a small time con artist, a secret Roy figures out too late. Before long, his mother has injected herself into both their lives, playing the angles in an attempt to make off with their loot. After she tries seducing her own son, he figures out the truth. Woah... this is a hot mess.

#13 Mary Jones (Mary Lee Johnston) - Precious

Academy Award voters rightly honored Mo'Nique with a best supporting actress statuette for her turn as a vile single mother in 1987 Harlem in director Lee Daniel's brutal drama. Mary's basically a model parent (played by Mo'Nique), except for all that neglect, mental torture, sexual and physical abuse and plate throwing. While the daily physical abuse (which includes throwing TVs and dinner plates at poor Precious) would be enough to drive any sane person mad, it's the continuous, jealous and bitter mental manipulation that truly rankles. Seriously, Mary's such a convincing sociopath, it's amazing Mo'Nique doesn't have people throwing stuff at her on the street.

#14 Joan Crawford - Mommie Dearest

What makes the 1981 biopic especially uncomfortable to watch is that it comes directly from the pages of the best-selling memoir written by Joan Crawford's adopted daughter, Christina. Faye Dunaway revived her career playing the notoriously abusive screen legend, and movie-goers were scared off ever using wire hangers again. The performance has basically become a THE prototype of cartoonish parental super-villainy. The line of "No more wire hangers!" has been lampooned thousands of times since the movie was released.

#15 Mrs. Vorhees - Friday The 13th

As we've seen with Psycho, horror loves the Oedipus complex, and it's none more apparent than with Jason Voorhees, Friday the 13th's hockey mask wearing, teenager slicing mass murderer. Her heart may be in the right place (she's only trying to avenge her son's assumed death!), but you can't solve all your problems by going around killing teenagers in a chunky-knit sweater. This mother is 50 shades of psycho as she dresses up as her dead son Jason, and torments teens at the lake every summer. Nice way to spend a well deserved vacation.

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