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Okay, it’s not a true horror film, but the relationship between Nixon and his mother (played by Mary Steenburgen) is one of the most terrifying, morbidly sick things I’ve seen in the movies. A cringing Nixon tells his mother to “think of me as thy faithful dog” – a tragically fitting framework for the relationship – one which the viewer can believe after having seen Steenburgen’s monstrous portrait unfold.