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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796019815277
Label: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 9583
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Description:
The final installment of the 'Three Mothers' trilogy. A young American art student, Sarah, 'unwittingly opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world's most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the 'Mother of Tears' before her evil conquers the world.'
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After waiting 28 years for the third feature in Dario Argento’s Mother trilogy, die-hard fans (like myself) flocked to theaters to catch Mother of Tears. The anticipatory set-up, for example reconciling in advance that the film will look entirely different, and probably less sexy, than the first two Giallo classics, Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980), induced anxieties in viewers that many of us hoped would enhance the film’s horror and suspense. So revered are Suspiria and Inferno that one needs an extremely open mind to avoid instantly turning Mother of Tears off, now that it’s available on DVD, and chucking the disc out the window, insulted by its comparison to the previous two movies. From scene one, in which a psychotic, villainous monkey stalks Asia Argento, playing protagonist Sarah Mandy, through Rome’s Natural History Museum, one realizes this film can only go downhill. Without the colored lights, the stylized 1970s horror aesthetic, or the terrifyingly fetishtistic speed metal/electronica soundtrack pounding during the chase, the mood is simply corny. Regarding the monkey, try to remember that an oddly elegant and intelligent crow ate an eyeball to great effect in Argento’s, Terror at the Opera. Argento has always favored animals to represent unwilling witnesses. The plot itself is also typically Argento and does follow-up: After a tainted red tunic is discovered in a cemetery, the third and last witch, Mother Lachrimarum (Moran Atias), is awaken from her catacombs beneath a mansion that she and her two deceased witch consorts, Mater Tenebrarum, the Mother of Darkness/Shadows, and Mater Suspiriorum, the Mother of Sighs, long ago recruited an architect to build. The Mother of Tears has beef with Sarah Mandy, due to Sarah’s heritage, and the unholy black witch relentlessly pursues Mandy until Mandy is forced to fight head-on. Mandy’s boyfriend, Michael Pierce (Adam James), is not much help, nor is Padre Johannes (Udo Kier), which makes sense; Argento’s films are all about empowered female characters, vengeful victims and ruthless criminals alike. Perhaps the flaw here is Argento’s casting of his daughter, and her inability to render that illicit sexual tension that the puerile Suzy Banyon (Jessica Harper) once did in the halls of her bewitched boarding school. Even Mother Lachrimarum’s young recruits, such as the Gothic and Lolita-style Katerina (Jun Ichikawa), are dumb-looking with their colored contacts and peacock hairstyles. There is only one character, the elder white witch Marta Colussi (Valeria Cavalli), who has the sexual draw to enchant Argento style, but she is short-lived. The CG effects employed throughout, especially in regards to the ghoulish antics happening amongst the Goth witch posse, are just plain bad. Only a few shots of gore really spook, and to be fair, they are lasting images. But the only semi-interesting this about the Mother of Tears DVD is the interview extra with the man himself, who is still master even if he makes a few stinkers. --Trinie Dalton
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Disclaimer: I'm not a hardcore Argento fan, but...
to me, a good movie is a good movie, and a bad movie is a bad movie. And this movie is bad.Really bad. This movie started out fairly promising and caught my attention.By the middle, I found myself growing more and more frustrated by how much I was forcing myself to care.Towards the end, it was a painful struggle not to eject the disk. I simply wanted to know how it ends so I didn't waste an hour of my life watching the first half.To add insult to injury, the ending was so generic and anticlimatic, ... Read More
Rating: - Mother of disappointments...
Good start, OK middle, awful ending. Some amateurish acting, hokey dialogue, gratuitous nudity, distasteful killings. Way below Argento's best work, ditto for his daughter, who is mediocre in the lead role. The extra features are interesting, though.
Rating: - Oh My...
Which pretty much sums this up.I've never felt compelled to write a review, and as a writer with a number of books on Amazon with varying reviews, I tend not to pay too much attention, but this was an important film to me in many respects-the emphasis being on "was."
I write at night, and religiously watch all of Argento's works at least 3-4 times a year to keep myself entertained.I consider the man a genius, and even thanked him in acknowledgments in one of my books for keeping me so entertained ... Read More
Rating: - Mother of god...
Mother of Tears (Dario Argento, 2007)
My first thought upon finishing this movie was "we waited twenty-seven years for this?". My second was "I'd be more than willing to wait another twenty-seven if we could get a movie as good as Suspiria, or even one as good as Inferno, out of this mess." The problem being, of course, that the intervening quarter-century and change has obviously disrupted Argento's thought processes on the Three Mothers, and what's left is the cheesiness of the first two movie, but ... Read More
Rating:  - Argento? Really?
I was thrilled when I learned that Argento was finally making the final installment of his "Three Mothers" trilogy. So I pop this DVD in, sit back and.........wonder what the hell I'm watching.
Sarah (Asia Argento) is an alleged "student" at the museum of art in Rome when she and her dim-witted friend decide to open an ominous urn in order to catalog its contents. What could possibly go wrong? Well, how about getting strangled with your own intestines for starters and then pursued by a monkey from hell. ... Read More
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