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TGB Mother's Day Special: Crazy Mothers (Guest: Darren Bousman)

by Tim Buel
May 8, 2011

On this special edition episode of The Golden Briefcase, Tim and Jeremy count down their Top 5 Crazy Mothers of Cinema in honor of Mother's Day! The guys list off plenty of psychotic mothers from films such as Black Swan, Carrie, House of the Devil and many more! Jeremy also conducts an interview with director Darren Bousman (Saw II, III, IV, Mother's Day) regarding his Top 5 crazy film moms. Tim and Jeremy also discuss the different character types these mothers embody and the immense talent of some of these actresses. List your own favorite crazy film/TV moms below and enjoy the rest of the day with yours!

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Our Guest:

Darren Bousman: @Darren Bousman

Craziest Mothers:

Tim:
5) Olivia Soprano - The Sopranos
4) Barbara Hershey - Black Swan
3) Mary Woronov - The House of the Devil
2) Hye-ja Kim - Mother
1) Elizabeth Moody - Dead Alive

Jeremy:
5) Betsy Palmer - Friday the 13th
4) Mo'Nique - Precious
3) Piper Laurie - Carrie
2) Jackie Weaver - Animal Kingdom
1) Angela Landsbury - Manchurian Candidate

Darren:
5) Shelly Winters - Bloody Mama
4) Wendie Robie - People Under the Stairs
3) Blanche Barker - Girl Next Door
2) Fay Dunaway - Mommy Dearest
1) Marcia Strassman - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

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From around the web:

DAVIDPD

Everyone had pretty good lists. But you guys forgot that crazy bitch of a mom from "Sleepaway Camp." Yeah, the one who turned her son into a crazy, serial killing tranny!!!
Splinteredvision

Any chance these will come back to Zune Marketplace? The latest episodes on there are from March 2010...unless they're listed under a different name?
- http://twitter.com/timbuel timbuel
  
  Hey man, not sure why they stopped populating at the Zune Marketplace. We will certainly look into it and see what the issue is! Any chance you can just get it through iTunes and sync to the zune somehow?
guest suffices

Does Sarah Polley in Splice count? She was sorta Dren's mother and she was certainly bat shit insane
- http://twitter.com/timbuel timbuel
  
  Excellent example! I'm pissed we didn't think of that!
http://twitter.com/darktaxidermist David Perretta

I knew he was gonna be the next guest! Love it!!!
Voice of Reason

Even Delia Deetz has a nomination to be had, although she was seemingly "normal" by the end of the film...but I am just in shock that "Norma" Bates from Psycho, the Grandmomma of crazy movie moms isn't on this list. Be she rotting away in the flesh or re-enacted, she is the matriarch of horror and the crazy mom that somewhat started it all. How was this overlooked?
- Tim Buel
  
  I think we left her out for the very reason. She is a given. We wanted to to give some other examples the people may not be aware of
  - Voice of Reason
    
    Bah. No more obvious than "Mommy Dearest" or "Pamela Vorhees" and most of the other McMoms you've got listed. The title is " Top 5 Crazy Mothers of Cinema." Norma is (one of) the tops and most influential to cinema, genres and your title, plain and simple. Credit where credit is due in my opinion, but hey, I guess thats why its your podcast. Good topic regardless, I like the top-5 and thematic-movie-connections, I'm finally interested in listening to one of these podcasts.
    - http://twitter.com/timbuel timbuel
      
      Well I'm glad you're interested.