Mother Knows Best? These Horror Movies Like Other Mommy Say Otherwise
Here are 6 horror movies on Tubi that put family bonds through hell (figuratively and literally).
Mommy dearest? More like mommy dearest, what is WRONG with you? Horror has always had a complicated relationship with motherhood, but the upcoming Other Mommy is taking maternal nightmares to an entirely new level. Arriving in theaters October 9, the supernatural horror film stars Jessica Chastain in a dual role as a mother and a sinister entity that looks and sounds exactly like her. Stranger danger is one thing. Stranger danger wearing your mom's face? Absolutely not.
Home is supposed to be where Mom makes everything feel a little less scary. Other Mommy flips that comfort on its head, following eight-year-old Bela as a mysterious presence invades her home and begins taking the form of someone she should be able to trust most. Based on Josh Malerman's novel Incidents Around the House, the Rob Savage-directed film taps into a particularly unsettling corner of horror: what happens when motherhood, family, and the safety of home become part of the nightmare? Turns out, horror moms come in many forms, and Bela certainly isn't the first kid to learn that lesson the hard way.
While Other Mommy prepares to bring its maternal terror to the big screen, Tubi's Horror Moms collection is already serving up its fair share of family nightmares. From mothers battling supernatural forces to parental relationships that are practically horror stories themselves, these six movies prove that family bonds can get frighteningly complicated. And Tubi's Terror on Tubi hub has even more nightmares waiting once the family drama becomes too much to handle.
Hereditary
Family trauma is scary enough without throwing a supernatural curse into the mix. Unfortunately for the Graham family, Hereditary has absolutely no interest in giving anyone a break. Following the death of her secretive mother, Annie Graham, played by Toni Collette, begins uncovering disturbing truths about her family's past as more and more terrifying events threaten to tear her household apart.
Ari Aster's psychological horror masterpiece turns generational trauma into something almost unbearably sinister, with Collette delivering a performance that makes every emotional breakdown feel painfully real. Much like Other Mommy, the film explores what happens when the people and places associated with safety become sources of fear. Family secrets have consequences, and the Grahams are about to discover just how far back theirs go.
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The Lodge
Meeting your future stepchildren can be awkward. Getting snowed in with them at an isolated cabin while disturbing things happen? Now we're talking about a whole different level of family bonding.
Riley Keough steps into the world's least relaxing family getaway as Grace, a soon-to-be stepmother hoping to connect with her fiancé's two children in The Lodge. A remote winter cabin doesn't exactly help matters, especially once strange occurrences begin testing everyone's grip on reality and turning already-fragile relationships into something much darker. With its suffocating atmosphere and uneasy questions about trust, The Lodge shares Other Mommy's fascination with the fear of an unfamiliar maternal figure entering a child's life. Let's just say this is one family vacation nobody will be putting in the scrapbook.
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Bed Rest
Rest and relaxation sound lovely in theory. Unfortunately, nobody told the ghosts.
Bed rest is supposed to keep Julie Rivers and her unborn baby safe, but safety becomes increasingly difficult to find in Bed Rest. Melissa Barrera plays the expectant mother, who is recovering from a devastating loss when disturbing supernatural encounters begin unfolding around her home. As her concerns are dismissed and her sense of reality becomes uncertain, Julie has to confront the possibility that something sinister has taken an interest in her growing family.
The film taps into the vulnerability of motherhood, where the instinct to protect a child becomes tangled with the fear of losing control. Barrera brings emotional weight to Julie's escalating terror, making the supernatural mystery feel deeply personal. Like Other Mommy, it understands that the scariest place to encounter an unwanted presence might be the one place you're supposed to feel safe.
The Monster
Mother-daughter road trips are supposed to involve questionable playlists, gas station snacks, and maybe an argument over directions. A bloodthirsty creature lurking in the darkness? Definitely not part of the itinerary.
A broken-down car is only the beginning of the problems facing Kathy and her young daughter, Lizzy, in The Monster. Zoe Kazan stars as the troubled mother, whose late-night drive with Lizzy leaves them stranded along a deserted road with something terrifying hunting nearby. But surviving the creature isn't their only challenge. Years of resentment, complicated emotions, and a fractured relationship threaten to make an already impossible situation even worse.
Director Bryan Bertino blends creature-feature terror with an intimate story about motherhood and the damage that can exist within a family. While Other Mommy questions whether a mother can be trusted, The Monster explores what happens when that trust has already been broken. The creature may have teeth, but the emotional wounds cut just as deep.
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The Brood
Bad parenting? David Cronenberg would like to raise you something considerably worse.
Parental resentment gets a full body-horror makeover in The Brood, as a series of brutal attacks pushes Frank Carveth to investigate the unconventional psychological treatments being administered to his estranged wife, Nola. The deeper he digs, the harder it becomes to ignore the connection between Nola's emotional turmoil and the disturbing violence surrounding their family.
Cronenberg's body-horror classic takes the complicated emotions surrounding motherhood and gives them a grotesque physical form. The result is a deeply uncomfortable exploration of parental rage, trauma, and the horrifying consequences of emotions left unchecked. Fans intrigued by Other Mommy's unsettling approach to maternal identity will find plenty to unpack here. Just don't expect family therapy to fix this one.
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Talk to Me
Grief makes people do questionable things. Inviting random spirits to take control of your body? That's a particularly bold coping mechanism.
An embalmed hand that lets you communicate with the dead quickly becomes the hottest party trick among a group of teenagers in Talk to Me. For Mia, played by Sophie Wilde, the game carries much more emotional weight as she continues grieving the death of her mother. The possibility of reconnecting with someone she's lost becomes too tempting to resist, and soon the boundaries between the living and the dead start falling apart.
While Talk to Me approaches maternal horror through grief rather than a threatening mother figure, its emotional connection to Other Mommy is hard to miss. Both films explore how supernatural entities can exploit the trust and vulnerability associated with family relationships. And Mia's supernatural nightmare is just one example of horror's ongoing obsession with unwanted spiritual visitors, something our article on 10 possession horror movies with serious boundary issues explores even further.
Turns out, the afterlife has some serious boundary issues.
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