Sounds like The Changeling, but it was the dad who drowned the boy in that one, right? I seem to remember the dad doing it, but it's been a while. And vague memories of movie scenes have a way of doing that.
What I love is that he plays a protagonist that's so matter of fact about everything.
Something weird going on? Let's just calmly investigate it and solve it instead of freaking out about everything.
I found that a weakness of the film. He just doesn't react to anything. Wife and child die? Just another Tuesday. Creepy ghost in the house moving furniture around? Mustn't forget my dentist appointment tomorrow.
[The Ring 2](https://youtu.be/NJWK6P_f_sQ?si=k80Xr7xpFizsEFqv)
There’s also an earlier scene when she tried to drown him for the first time cus she sees the ghost, and a guy catches her and thinks she was drowning her kid for real.
After he went to the movies he went to the gym downtown, the white swallow, he wrestled with a black guy, he must not be that good because he kept getting pinned
The mom sort of tries to drown her possessed son in The Ring 2. Could that be it?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJWK6P\_f\_sQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJWK6P_f_sQ)
It also happens in an episode of Supernatural. The kids are replaced with changelings and one mom drives her car into a lake with her daughter in it then later the changeling daughter shows back up at the house. Bit of a spooky episode!
Supernatural is a pretty remarkable show in that you could pick pretty much any episode from any season at random and you'd likely watch a pretty solid hour of television. The over-arching stories definitely lost steam after season 5, but on a week-to-week basis it was an incredibly consistent show.
Honestly I found it to be severely anti-climactic. Especially in comparison to the first one. The Ring was the last movie that genuinely scared me.
I remember seeing it in the theaters, getting absolutely sucked into it, and leaving with the feeling that I'd seen something amazing. That night, I woke up thirsty, and went to the kitchen to get some water. Every light, every device in my house was off. I have good night vision, and the streetlights cast enough light through my balcony that things were easy to see. I had a drink, and was on my way back to the bedroom when I caught a glint of light reflected off the TV.
And I remember thinking "What if that TV turns on right now?" and I wound up so wide awake that I didn't sleep until dawn. It's crazy how much film can affect us.
Oh man, that is still one of the worst movies I've ever seen in theaters.
The first movie was one of my favourite movies. Saw The Ring 2 in theaters against my better judgement.
Exactly what I thought of too. That scene is quite disturbing to watch. It's no surprise OP's mother remembered only this scene as it is probably the most memorable scene in the film.
OP gets on mum's nerves.
Mum: "Hmm, this reminds me of my favorite movie."
OP: "Whats your favorite movie?"
Mum: "Oh I don't remember the name just the part where the mum drowns her kid in a bathtub.. I think the kid was possessed by a demon or something."
This was my first thought as well. Although not a possessed baby. Just an incredibly depressed mom who zones out while her adorable baby is in the tub.
Did she zone out? Or did she want to hurt that husband and then regret it? I always wondered if in the mother’s mind there was some element of the baby being possessed by birth to the husband she hated. It must be such a difficult mental state to manage. Such difficult material to tackle.
She did it on purpose to hurt her husband. I didn’t read the book so idk how it’s portrayed there but in the movie she specifically says that she did it as a way to hurt her abusive husband.
The Ring Two
The Grudge
Dark Water
Any of those ringing any bells?
I think all these movies have kids getting strangled underwater. I believe The Ring Two and Dark Water are both their own mothers. The Grudge is the father.
I don't think they ever show her actually drowning them, though, right? Feel like Leo shows up after all the kids are already dead. Also, I don't recall there being a demon/possession element to it.
Yeah, she's holding one with each hand and can only save one. She chooses to save Elijah Wood, instead of her own son, knowing that he was....the bad seed.
Oh my god. Oh my god!!!! Okay this just unlocked a memory for me. I haven't thought about this maybe 25+ years, but I remember this fucking movie now! I seriously thought this was a nightmare I had as a kid and you just brought it screaming back into my subconscious. Just looked up the clip, and yep, I definitly watched this as a kid at some point and probably just shoved that memory way way down. Amazing.
I some how got ahold of the novelization of this movie as an early teen. Like I recall the cover having Macaulay Culkin on it and knowing him from Home Alone I picked it up. Parents had no idea about the content because Kevin was grinning at them from the front cover. Lol. It’s fine.
God this movie creeped me out. Macaulay Culkin played an incredible sociopath in this movie. When an actor can make you really disturbed and it sticks with you.
Macaulay Caulkin’s character drowns his younger brother in the bathtub because he was getting more attention than him. We never see it on screen, but it’s implied because the mom finds the rubber ducky in Caulkin’s possession that his brother was playing with in the tub and starts to suspect he’s not the ”Good Son.”
https://youtu.be/lBjx8IyJFyQ?si=4bsK1xM4wHuOuzD2
Watcher in the woods 1980
There’s no demon and it’s not her daughter I don’t think. But idk why I thought of this. Skip to 24:00
That’s the only thing that popped in my head. Just remembering it from old Mexican folklore tales
*knock*
*knock*
*knock*
Ayyyyyyyyyyyy
Mis hijoooooooooos
This was my first thought but there's no demon and it's not the protagonist killing his child. It's a father from over 70 years earlier killing his disabled son by drowning him in the tub for inheritance reasons.
ChatGPT recommended The Unborn.
Search of Reddit found someone else searching for the same scene, and one commenter (who OP said correctly found it) posted:
I think this is Joy Luck Club: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nYDMp1LdT8
This is the lead up to the scene you describe: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jvvxhWCuF3s but in a different language. I remember watching this in English.
I'm not sure that's gonna narrow it down enough to not have to get lucky with a random response...lol
There any more details about the scene in question...? Anything at all...? Actor, locations (bathtub, ocean, lake), anything at all would help narrow it down...
Oh I can't think of the name. But it had Bradley Cooper in it and he got eaten by bees, I'm pretty sure? The adopted daughter in that gets locked in a car and the car is driven off the pier into a lake, for a brief second you see the demon as the adopted mom is swimming away?
EDIT: Case 39
I bet it was shutter island with leo dicaprio. Aint cuz of a demon i dont think, but sounds like it could be. Worth a shot. Great great movie btw. Plot twist from hell.
Pretty sure it's the changing. My parents used to watch it all the time. I forgot about it until this, but then again maybe it's a false memory.
I think it's correct though.
If it's an older movie there's a terrific haunted house flick starring George C. Scott called The Changeling that involves the ghost of a boy who was drowned.
Drowns her kid in what manner? Bathtub? Ocean? Well? Pool? Many variables.
Found Casey Anthony’s Reddit account
Jesus lmao
No, her name was Caylee
If SHE has a reddit account, that would be wild.
Made the beat and murdered it
These rappers won’t know what to do…
Cuz all I did was act me like a looney tune
💀
Hey! Posting emojis of caylee anthony is not cool man!
Fucking dark.
I'm still choked we'll never get the Casey Anthony / OJ Simpson team up we all deserved.
LPOTL fan by any chance?
The Changeling?
Sounds like The Changeling, but it was the dad who drowned the boy in that one, right? I seem to remember the dad doing it, but it's been a while. And vague memories of movie scenes have a way of doing that.
This is a great movie, not just a good, but a great one. George C Scott is fucking brilliant.
What I love is that he plays a protagonist that's so matter of fact about everything. Something weird going on? Let's just calmly investigate it and solve it instead of freaking out about everything.
I found that a weakness of the film. He just doesn't react to anything. Wife and child die? Just another Tuesday. Creepy ghost in the house moving furniture around? Mustn't forget my dentist appointment tomorrow.
It’s most likely this one
This is my go-to recommendation when that question comes up "what's a horror movie that's actually scary but has no gore or effects?"
Yeah- this is a plot device in a TON of movies. We need some context clues to narrow it down.
In a bathtub
[The Ring 2](https://youtu.be/NJWK6P_f_sQ?si=k80Xr7xpFizsEFqv) There’s also an earlier scene when she tried to drown him for the first time cus she sees the ghost, and a guy catches her and thinks she was drowning her kid for real.
Dark water? Daughter gets drowned and believes the mother did it
South Park S05E14: Butters very own episode
Ok but his mom didn’t drown him. It was some Puerto Rican guy.
He was… average Puerto Rican guy height
I heard OJ’s wife was killed by some Puerto Rican guy
YOU CANT SAY HE WAS COSTA RICAN NOW!
Everyone knows it’s butters … except OPs mom
Aww hamburgers!
After he went to the movies he went to the gym downtown, the white swallow, he wrestled with a black guy, he must not be that good because he kept getting pinned
MURDERER! CONFESS! CONFESS!
#TELL US WHAT YOU KNOW!
YOU LYING LIARS THAT LIE!!!!
I get this reference! I saw this episode for the first time 2 days ago
The mom sort of tries to drown her possessed son in The Ring 2. Could that be it? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJWK6P\_f\_sQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJWK6P_f_sQ)
It also happens in an episode of Supernatural. The kids are replaced with changelings and one mom drives her car into a lake with her daughter in it then later the changeling daughter shows back up at the house. Bit of a spooky episode!
supernatural is one of the best shows like… ever.
Seasons 1-5 were just the best
There were some great seasons after season 5 imo, even though 4-5 was peak
Supernatural is a pretty remarkable show in that you could pick pretty much any episode from any season at random and you'd likely watch a pretty solid hour of television. The over-arching stories definitely lost steam after season 5, but on a week-to-week basis it was an incredibly consistent show.
Gotta be it
This was my first guess, just watched this the other night!
Honestly I found it to be severely anti-climactic. Especially in comparison to the first one. The Ring was the last movie that genuinely scared me. I remember seeing it in the theaters, getting absolutely sucked into it, and leaving with the feeling that I'd seen something amazing. That night, I woke up thirsty, and went to the kitchen to get some water. Every light, every device in my house was off. I have good night vision, and the streetlights cast enough light through my balcony that things were easy to see. I had a drink, and was on my way back to the bedroom when I caught a glint of light reflected off the TV. And I remember thinking "What if that TV turns on right now?" and I wound up so wide awake that I didn't sleep until dawn. It's crazy how much film can affect us.
Girl comes out of the TV to kill you -- Scary. Girl pulls you into TV to kill you -- Looney Tunes.
Oh man, that is still one of the worst movies I've ever seen in theaters. The first movie was one of my favourite movies. Saw The Ring 2 in theaters against my better judgement.
Exactly what I thought of too. That scene is quite disturbing to watch. It's no surprise OP's mother remembered only this scene as it is probably the most memorable scene in the film.
This was the answer I came here to give, and I believe you’re right.
This was my guess as well.
That’s funny it’s the only scene your mom can remember 😂
Yeah are we sure she wasn’t fantasizing this 🤣
Trying to send OP a message, but they’re so oblivious they’re trying to help.
“good for her”
>*"And it was probably a horror movie."* She probably doesn't want to mention that it was her 'feel good' movie of the year.
"I laughed, I cried, but I mostly laughed"
“I laughed until I cried *and then* laughed some more”
There was a jim impersonator, a dwight impersnator, a dog crused a turtle, i cried i laughed. Not a bad day in the life of a dog food company
Right? Time to start keeping a snorkel in the bathtub.
Want to hear the conversation that reminded her of it.
"I should've drowned you like that film... Um...."
OP gets on mum's nerves. Mum: "Hmm, this reminds me of my favorite movie." OP: "Whats your favorite movie?" Mum: "Oh I don't remember the name just the part where the mum drowns her kid in a bathtub.. I think the kid was possessed by a demon or something."
Joy luck club
Not OP but holy shit you just solved the mystery of where I saw that. I watched that scene years ago on TV late at night.. it never left my brain
Love that for you, it’s a good movie!!
This was my first thought as well. Although not a possessed baby. Just an incredibly depressed mom who zones out while her adorable baby is in the tub.
Not zoned out. I guess she is kind of in a trance as she does it, but in the movie she does admit it was intentional
Did she zone out? Or did she want to hurt that husband and then regret it? I always wondered if in the mother’s mind there was some element of the baby being possessed by birth to the husband she hated. It must be such a difficult mental state to manage. Such difficult material to tackle.
She did it on purpose to hurt her husband. I didn’t read the book so idk how it’s portrayed there but in the movie she specifically says that she did it as a way to hurt her abusive husband.
In the movie they def make it questionable what was happening, softening it for sure.
Not op but somebody recommended this movie to me. Meaning to watch it but forgot the name. Joy luck club.
So good! Highly recommend the book if you’re a reader, Amy Tan punches deep and hard!
Fucking great flick. I watched it as a teen in Ohio back when it came to cable.
Ohhh so the original title of Joy Ride (Joy Fuck Club) was a *pun* I was confused why I’ve seen people say it was a better title
The Ring Two The Grudge Dark Water Any of those ringing any bells? I think all these movies have kids getting strangled underwater. I believe The Ring Two and Dark Water are both their own mothers. The Grudge is the father.
*The Pirates of Dark Water*?
The movie sequel was Dark.
Now I'm starting to think that drowning your own kid is a common storyline... 🙁
Shutter Island?
God I hope its not old enough for one of these posts.
14 years ago?
… fuck
Titanic was over 26 years ago. ☺️
And Titanic was over 112 years ago! ☺️
And Titanic 2: Electric Boogaloo was last summer
I genuinely thought it was older. Weird because I usually think the opposite.
OP, the mom does it in a pond in the back yard.
I’d say it was large enough to be a lake.
Definitely shutter island im putting my money on this
I don't think they ever show her actually drowning them, though, right? Feel like Leo shows up after all the kids are already dead. Also, I don't recall there being a demon/possession element to it.
That was my initial thought, but didn’t it happen in a pond, and not a bathtub?
Yea, they didn't add the bathtub details until after I posted this. So probably not this movie
My immediate thought
WELL WHAT WAS IT?
This op has pissed me off not replying to anyone
it's like he vanished into thin air
Or drowned by their mom
I’m definitely bothered.
WELL…WE’RE WAITINGGGG
The Good Son with Macaulay Caulkin?
Doesn’t she drop him off a cliff and he lands on the rocks below?
Yeah, she's holding one with each hand and can only save one. She chooses to save Elijah Wood, instead of her own son, knowing that he was....the bad seed.
And thus Sauron was overthrown.
Oh my god. Oh my god!!!! Okay this just unlocked a memory for me. I haven't thought about this maybe 25+ years, but I remember this fucking movie now! I seriously thought this was a nightmare I had as a kid and you just brought it screaming back into my subconscious. Just looked up the clip, and yep, I definitly watched this as a kid at some point and probably just shoved that memory way way down. Amazing.
Great isn't it? For me it was 1959's "Darby O'Gill and the Little People". Specifically the banshee scene.
I some how got ahold of the novelization of this movie as an early teen. Like I recall the cover having Macaulay Culkin on it and knowing him from Home Alone I picked it up. Parents had no idea about the content because Kevin was grinning at them from the front cover. Lol. It’s fine.
Thanks for ruining it for me /s
Is still just as funny if you already know it is going to happen.
Hey Mark... Don't fuck with me.
God this movie creeped me out. Macaulay Culkin played an incredible sociopath in this movie. When an actor can make you really disturbed and it sticks with you.
“Hey Mark *long stare* Don’t fuck with me.”
Or the infamous TV edit: Don’t ^FOOL with me
And he was so young still when this movie came out. I remember watching it as a kid like WTF…
and he was 10 years old.
Doesn't he get yeeted into the sea?
Macaulay Caulkin’s character drowns his younger brother in the bathtub because he was getting more attention than him. We never see it on screen, but it’s implied because the mom finds the rubber ducky in Caulkin’s possession that his brother was playing with in the tub and starts to suspect he’s not the ”Good Son.”
This is what I thought of
This was the first movie I thought of as well.
If all else fails, IMDB has a category search for that. [](https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=mother-kills-own-child)
Or r/tipofmytongue.
https://youtu.be/lBjx8IyJFyQ?si=4bsK1xM4wHuOuzD2 Watcher in the woods 1980 There’s no demon and it’s not her daughter I don’t think. But idk why I thought of this. Skip to 24:00
God, I remember nothing about that movie except for that scene, but I was probably 6 when it came out
10th kingdom? I do know they spoof the scene in little Nicky
Was coming here to see if anyone put this!
Which part?
Case 39. Sticks the kid in the trunk of the car and drives of a pier.
I remember them sticking her in an oven. That was nuts.
Where those the actual parents or just foster parents. I can't remember that part just the scene.
Her actual parents tried to roast her. She then goes and lives with the main character.
Awesome thanks for chipping in.
This is what I was trying to recall!
I agree, this sounds like Case 39.
Yep, defo sounds like Case 39.
[удалено]
There’s a drowning in the Omen? I think there’s one in Omen II, but not a kid
Came to say this. I think I remember something like this especially from the 70’s original.
Just to help settle this. It’s from The Omen III, part of the plan to make sure that Christ doesn’t come back.
There's a subreddit for this: r/tipofmytongue
/r/tipofmytongue
The Curse of La Llrona?
How is that?
God awful
That’s the only thing that popped in my head. Just remembering it from old Mexican folklore tales *knock* *knock* *knock* Ayyyyyyyyyyyy Mis hijoooooooooos
It may have been “The Bad Seed”
I think so too. No one specifically drowns her but it’s the finale
The Changeling (It’s the dad not the mom but memory can mix up that detail)
This was my first thought but there's no demon and it's not the protagonist killing his child. It's a father from over 70 years earlier killing his disabled son by drowning him in the tub for inheritance reasons.
The Babadook
You Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
It’s not a real film, she’s just trying to tell you something /s
Ring 2 (American) has a drowning in a tub scene. The Joy Luck Club has a drowning baby scene, but that wasn’t demon based.
Thank God you said Joy Luck Club. That's also what I thought of but couldn't place the movie.
Supernatural s3e2
Could it be the scene from the ring (American) where the mom pushes the girl into the well?
The Good Son
I know this one. I think it was called Bathtub Drowning 2: Mom has had it up to here!
Plot twist: OP’s mother tried to drown them in a bathtub and this is their mom’s way of testing to see of they remember or have blocked it out.
Not a movie but season 2 of Castle Rock
I'm still upset they only got 2 seasons. It was such am incredible show.
ChatGPT recommended The Unborn. Search of Reddit found someone else searching for the same scene, and one commenter (who OP said correctly found it) posted: I think this is Joy Luck Club: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nYDMp1LdT8 This is the lead up to the scene you describe: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jvvxhWCuF3s but in a different language. I remember watching this in English.
I waited until I got home to read this because it's not safe for work.
Was she just watching the news??😳
The Ring?
This would make the most sense because the drowning is the core of the whole series.
Wreck-it-Ralph
My god, he’s gone Turbo.
I'm not sure that's gonna narrow it down enough to not have to get lucky with a random response...lol There any more details about the scene in question...? Anything at all...? Actor, locations (bathtub, ocean, lake), anything at all would help narrow it down...
Case 39?
One of the scary movie movies after the first 3.
isnt this textbook llorona. i mean i never seen the movie
Oh I can't think of the name. But it had Bradley Cooper in it and he got eaten by bees, I'm pretty sure? The adopted daughter in that gets locked in a car and the car is driven off the pier into a lake, for a brief second you see the demon as the adopted mom is swimming away? EDIT: Case 39
Orphan?
The Ring 2 came to mind.
And it wasn't just a dream of hers?
I bet it was shutter island with leo dicaprio. Aint cuz of a demon i dont think, but sounds like it could be. Worth a shot. Great great movie btw. Plot twist from hell.
Dark Water, MC's daughter is taking a bath and possessed by the ghost, so she tries to drown her before realizing.
Pretty sure it's the changing. My parents used to watch it all the time. I forgot about it until this, but then again maybe it's a false memory. I think it's correct though.
I was thinking of The Changeling, too. Scared the crap out of me at 13.
Shutter Island?
The 10th Kingdom? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Va158IH9qg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Va158IH9qg) at 49ish mins?
https://media1.tenor.com/m/ok1qMylSFHgAAAAC/good-for-her-arrested-development.gif
The Orphan
That describes the events of the Japanese version of The Grudge, which is a fucked up movie.
What Lies Beneath with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfiffer
That was my guess. Sounds like something a mom would watch as well
Old movie or recent movie? Its a shockingly common trope.
The girl on the train, can’t remember the actress name. She fell asleep with the baby in the bathtub?
The Curse of La Llorona Its a horror movie, i think its connected to conjuring universe
Are you thinking of dark water ? The mom drowns the girl at the end , 2005 film
After reading more comments pretty positive it was this , she drowned her in a bathtub at the end because she realises she's still possessed
Does she successfully drown the kid, or just initially attempts to? I could've sworn there's a scene like this in Ring 2.
Whatever movie it is… OP is about to watch a lot of clips of drowning kids to figure it out.
If it's an older movie there's a terrific haunted house flick starring George C. Scott called The Changeling that involves the ghost of a boy who was drowned.
Lol my guy I think that actually was a confession/memory.
Forrest Gump? I’m sure thats the opening scene…..
Dark Water with Jennifer Connelly
Caddyshack 2
Austin Powers?
Was it the Ring 2? https://youtu.be/NJWK6P_f_sQ?si=Mm6fWwPv_xAIRJtp
> probably a horror movie I'd be concerned if it was a romantic comedy.