MOTHERS OF HORROR (Top 5 Ranked): Unkle Orlok's Vault - Episode 8

Hello nieces and nephews and welcome back to Unkle Orlok’s Vault for Episode eight The Mothers of Horror. Now this being the month of May containing Mother's Day, we're going to rank the top five mothers in horror with a few honorable mentions. Now, this isn't just a list of the top five evil psycho mom, so some do definitely qualify as I that. This list also includes Brave, ordinary mothers who rise to the occasion like mama bears to protect their children against insurmountable threat, whether

being supernatural in nature or very ordinary and earthbound. It just needs to qualify as horror here. -JUNIOR!! JUNIOR!! -Ma. It's Uncle Orlok. I'm doing the Uncle Orlok show. Uncle Morlok’s been dead for years. I smell smoke. No. Or Mom? No, it's not smoke. It's a fog machine. It's a fog machine. What a What? I can't talk right now. I'm shooting my YouTube show. Yeah, shooting WhoTube? Well, please, I can't talk right now, okay? Just don't burn anything down there. Yeah. Fun shooting. WhoTube

Hey, would you guys like some cookies? You want any cookies? Yeah, I'll take some cookies. Yeah, well, we'll have cookies. I don't even know where we are anymore. Just roll the intro. NO WIRE HANGERS! What do you give to the lady who has given all her life and love to you? What do you give to the reason you are living? Mom, I could window. Shop the world. Don't you swear. At me you shit Don't you ever raise your voice in me I am your mother I'm. A rainbow Not a sunrise Oh, mama, the moon. Too W

hen mother Oh, God, Mother Love your blood Not good enough. Not for mom. Oh, on life time crowded with laughter. That's not long enough. No, not long enough. Oh, what can I give you that I can give you one hour? Let's see what you brought, Mother. Some see my young and the beautiful, always young and beautiful. What's the mama? Oh, always see. She fights for what, mom? With love. From me Mothers are eating their children! Mama’s talking loud Is doing fine Mom is getting hot Mom is going. Mama’s

moving up Moving on. You’re Not my Mother!! Okay. And let's begin the countdown at number five. Margaret White, betrayed by actress Piper Laurie in Carrie, 1976. Brian De Palma's frightening adaptation of Stephen King's first novel about female puberty, teenage bullying and telekinesis wouldn't work so well without Mother White as the catalyst to Carrie's arc, Piper Laurie plays this religious zealot to the hilt, locking Carrie in a closet containing the scariest crucifix known to mankind, hitti

ng Carrie in the face with a Bible all while pulling her own hair out. There is a nice mother and daughter moment in the film, though, when Piper Laurie applies the subtle application of the thespian art. When she describes to Carrie the night of her daughter's conception. I should have killed myself when he put it in me so never die. At first it was all right. We lived seamlessly. We slept in the same bed, but we never did. And that night I saw him looking down at me that way we got down on our

knees to pray for strength. I smelled the whiskey on his breath, took the stink of Fitzgerald whiskey on his breath like hell, like. There is nothing subtle about Piper Laurie's betrayal. I guess that's what makes it so terrifying and so much fun to watch. De Palma also gave Margaret White a much more gruesome death in the movie. Piper Laurie's portrayal is so iconic, we all now remember that infamous line. They're all going to laugh at you.. We're all sorry, sorry. Trust me, Carrie, you can tr

ust me and trust me. You can trust me. Trust me. For example, I was also just recently in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha. Number four, aliens, the Queen Xenomorph and Ellen Ripley, 1986, created by Stan Winston Studios. The Queen Xenomorph is an impressive, practical creature effect, but she is also a very protective mama as a character. The only non-human on our list, the Xenomorph, shows that the instinct of mo

therhood is inherent even in monsters from across the galaxy. After all, she is just protecting her eggs. When Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley takes a flamethrower for that's, how else would her mother react? In fact, even though aliens is thought of as a kick ass, drag out sci fi action movie, which definitely is the theme of James Cameron's film is all about motherhood. Earlier in the film, when Ripley is awakened from cryogenic sleep after the Nostromo has been found drifting in space, she fi

nds out that she has been asleep for 57 years. In a deleted scene from the original theatrical cut, we find out her daughter on earth, Amanda, is now long dead. Grief stricken, Ripley is convinced to go on a mission to a human colony now on the alien planet, only to find all humans there, either dead or cocooned. All except Newt, a little girl who is the lone human survivor on the planet. She tells Ripley and the soldiers that the creatures mostly come out at night. Mostly we better keep that be

cause it will be dark soon. And they mostly come at night. Mostly Ripley's maternal instinct kicks in as a protector of Newt. She almost becomes an adoptive mom. This leads us to the ultimate face off with the alien mother in the nest and the final combat between two protective mothers, both human and Xenomorph. Get away from her, you bitch. The only other thing I could say further about this one is Happy Mother's Day, Mother. At number three, Cujo down to Trenton, portrayed by actress Dee Walla

ce, 1983, only a year after playing the oblivious single mom with an alien living in her house in E.T. D, Wallace returns in an equally maternal, if much more terrifying mother role as a second film on our list based on a Stephen King novel, this film sees Dee Wallace facing off against a much more earthbound realist stick threat trapped in a car that won't turn over with her young son stuck in sweltering summer heat on a rural farm with no help around, she finds herself and child under attack b

y a large Saint Bernard that has gone rabid. Get back in there. And oh my God, shhhh W.C. Fields once said and never work with children and animals. Well, Dee Wallace didn't take his advice and as a result gives a tour de force performance simplistic in its premise and tightly directed. Cujo is quite an effective horror film. It plunges the viewer into a nightmare scenario and never lets up. Maybe it's the fact that, unlike some of the other threats on this list that are supernatural in nature,

the events of Cujo, given the right circumstances before cell phones actually could happen. Dee Wallace is in full mama bear mode here, and thankfully the film gives us an uplifting ending. After all the grueling events, Stephen King's novel has a much bleaker ending, which really wouldn't have worked as well on film, in my opinion. Perhaps the most heroic on our list is Dee Wallace, as the brave yet realistic mama in Cujo for number two, the original Friday the 13th, Pamela Voorhees, portrayed

by actress Betsy Palmer, 1980. Pamela Voorhees, otherwise known to horror fans as Jason's mom, was revealed at the end of the first film. Spoiler Alert to be the actual killer Jason himself the hockey mask wearing slasher kids like to dress up for his Halloween because it's a cheap costume wouldn't show up in his most recognizable form until Friday the 13th 3-D. Mrs. Voorhees, like most of the other moms on our list, was simply being a protective mom of her son. She was understandably getting re

venge on those lubidinous, distracted teen age camp counselors who are too busy boning each other in sleeping bags instead of keeping an eye on her sweet baby boy Jason, while he was drowning in Crystal Lake. I do not mess with a mom from New Jersey. Yes, that actually is where the original camp Crystal Lake is. You can look it up. Woo, woo, woo, woo! This became veteran actress Betsy Palmer's most beloved role when she wasn't selling dish detergent. That could also make your hand smooth and cle

an. I'm Betsy Palmer, and I'm going to liberate the dishwashing commercial from the kitchen because frankly, it doesn't make any difference which dishwashing liquid you use out here. Any good brand will get your dishes just as clean as luxe. It's in here where your hands are on display. That luxe makes the difference. It conditions your hands. Luxe has an exclusive skin conditioning formula that leaves hands feeling surprisingly soft and smooth. Try, relax your dishes, don't care what brand you

use, but your hands to. Take that women's libbers. She was running around the woods, quite agile, going completely psycho, and apparently operating the camera in an overbearing way during a family camping trip is a plus for an older lady wearing a cable knit sweater in the summer. She sure takes a licking and keeps on tiking until she ultimately loses her head. The kids of the eighties had no respect. Jason like a good boy and Norman Bates before him would come back from his watery grave to aven

ge his dear old mom. Now, if this isn't the perfect Mother's Day story, frankly, I don't know what is. And now before we go to number one on our list, we're going to do honorable mentions with that male. Who are you? Oh, hi. I'm so sneaky. You sock puppet snakes. Why did I have to be snakes first? On our honorable mentions list is Adeline versus her doppelganger Red, both portrayed by Lupita Nyong'o on US 2019 from writer director Jordan Peele, two mothers alike against each other in an allegori

cal class warfare defending their families. Nyong'o is fantastic in both of us choosing not to name. Our next is Wendy Torrance, portrayed by Shelley Duvall in The Shining 1980, another strong Stephen King mother figure protecting her son from a homicidal father, played by Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick's Chiller adaptation. This character perhaps has the largest arc in the film. And finally, Diane Freeland, portrayed by Jobeth Williams in Poltergeist, 1982, directed by Toby Hooper from a sto

ry written by Steven Spielberg, who also produced Poltergeist blends the scares of the supernatural with a benign suburban family setting for maximum effect. Jobeth Williams goes so far as to enter a vortex of spectral light emanating from her kids bedroom closet in order to save her daughter, who has become trapped in a paranormal plane of existence inside the family TV set. If you haven't seen it, just watch it. I can't explain it any better. And finally, at number one on our mothers of horror

lists is Rosemary Woodhouse, portrayed by actress Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby, 1968, directed by Roman Polanski. Based on the 1967 novel by author Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby tells the dark tale of a young, upper middle class woman who moves into the Dakota in Manhattan with her actor husband, Guy played by John Cassavetes and is manipulated gaslit berated, drugged, raped, impregnated and ultimately forced to give birth unknowingly to the spawn of Satan. Her husband, in order to get ahead in h

is acting career, sells his soul and his wife's body to a coven of devil worshipers and practitioners of black magic will look like they're members of AARP. No, it can be not. Oh, look at his hands. His feet. Dealing with themes of the time that are also equally relevant today, where the political debate over women's rights and bodily autonomy is at the forefront. The film Suspense and Terror unfolds as Rosemary's individual liberty and autonomy is slowly stripped away by oppressive and misogyni

stic forces around her. Whether it comes from members of the occult, her husband, her doctor, or her Catholic guilt and upbringing. The film deals with themes of second wave feminism, religion, urban isolation, sexism, individuality, capitalism and above all, motherhood. In fact, underlying the religious themes beneath the story and character. Rosemary is first depicted as innocent and submissive and gradually is broken down throughout the story as she is prepared to be the mother of the Antichr

ist. Even her name is a reflection of the Holy Mother Mary and is seen depicted in costume design colors of blue and white during her pregnancy. These colors representing purity and loyalty. Rosemary makes the list at number one for the film's exploration of the psychological fears around pregnancy and for the fact that at the end, spoiler alert despite the revelation of who the father of her baby actually is, Rosemary embraces her role as mother. La la la la la la la la la la la la. That right

there is truly a mother's love. Rosemary Woodhouse. Happy Mother's Day. Next time on Uncle Orlok’s vault, we're going to change things up a bit as we're going to be doing this summer of sci fi for the next few months. So join us then. Coochie-Coo Baby! A few things. You ever see Snakes on a plane. You were in that? No but My cousin Tom was.