Donnie Darko, perhaps? Or the awful Prometheus. Then there's the execrable Event Horizon. Those are the ones that leap, unfortunately, to mind...
There are a legion of films that chronicle the descent of a character, or engender a sense of dread and fear. Some do it well, and others just hit the numbers and move on. Keeping to the horror genre, Robert Wise's The Haunting was a classic. Even The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was excellent in both being a horror film and a love story. John Carpenter shot Halloween on a complete shoestring budget, but produced a film that was fresh and engaging. He didn't produce anything up to that standard until he shot The Thing some years later.
As to Mother, the only thing that comes close is Melancholia, and that film's sole redeeming factor was Kirsten Dunst running around bare-assed. I may not know much about art, but I know what I like...