Mother Knows Worst: Psycho, Mother's Day & Flesh Eating Mothers

Send us Fan MailThis week, we’re diving deep into the twisted world of horror’s most nightmarish mothers for a Mother’s Day massacre special.We begin with Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho (1960) — the film that introduced the world to Norman Bates and his domineering, inescapable “mother,” forever changing the slasher genre and cinematic storytelling.Then we crank up the sleaze with Mother’s Day (1980), Troma-adjacent exploitation gold where backwoods brothers and their unhinged mom turn a weekend getaway into a sadistic game of survival.And finally, we sink our teeth into the gloriously unhinged Flesh Eating Mothers, a low-budget cult classic where suburban moms literally devour their families after a mysterious infection turns the neighborhood into an all-you-can-eat buffet of domestic horror.