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A screengrab of Donald Trump’s late mother Mary surfaced recently and has been causing a stir on Twitter.

The picture is from an interview Mary Trump conducted with Foxtel in 1997 which was recently re-aired in Australia as part of a documentary entitled “Who Is Donald Trump?”

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Mary Trump’s hair is swept over to one side and the resemblance to her son is pretty clear.

https://twitter.com/RyRy80/status/758423647157686273

In the video, Mary Trump ironically reportedly says, “I don’t think the life of a politician would suit him. He’s too used to doing things his way and doing them right,” according to the New Daily.

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Of course, given how controversial a figure the Republican presidential candidate is these days, Twitter users have been pretty savage in comparing his mother to a character from a sci-fi film.

Mary Trump looks like the villain's mother in a Dario Argento film. pic.twitter.com/K5I2Kyt80I — Graham Linehan (@Glinner) July 26, 2016

Mary Trump was the inspiration for The Capitol in the Hunger Games. pic.twitter.com/hxUbP93Re8 — Mark Moffitt (@Mark_theMoff) July 27, 2016

not even in terry gilliam's wildest dreams could he dream up mary trump https://t.co/RxCKc5na2k — raucous aurelius (@thetelemachy) July 27, 2016

I worry that the more you all tweet that photo of Mary Trump the more likely it is we're actually awakening an ancient, blow dried evil — Ash Warner (@AlsBoy) July 27, 2016

A whole host of other Twitterers are posting comparison photos.

Others are using the pic as a way to simply explain Trump’s oft-discussed hairstyle.

You know when sometimes suddenly everything sort of starts to make sense? Well this is Trump's mother… pic.twitter.com/YG218CPEOt — Ed Brody (@chiefbrody1984) July 25, 2016

One man even took time to give her mane a name.

Mary Trump 's tasty wave pic.twitter.com/8NAthPf4wr — Mike Glazer (@glazerboohoohoo) July 27, 2016