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09/22/07
Mother of Tears (2008)
49 %
Reviews Counted: 61 Fresh: 30 Rotten:31 Average Rating: 5.3/10
Consensus:
As excessive and ketchup laden as predecessors Suspiria and Inferno, Dario Argento's Mother of Tears completes the trilogy with the same baroque grandeur and soggy 1970s sensibilities.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis: The third installment in Italian horror master Dario Argento's Three Mothers saga, THE MOTHER OF TEARS is a gruesome and long-awaited treat for horror fans. Completing a loosely knit trilogy that began with SUSPIRIA (1977) and continued with INFERNO (1980), the film sees the titular witch... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James, Udo Kier
Director: Dario Argento
Screenwriter: Dario Argento, Jace Anderson, Adam Gierasch
Story: Dario Argento
Screenwriter: Dario Argento, Jace Anderson, Adam Gierasch
Story: Dario Argento
Reviews
We come to an Argento picture for the surreal, Baroque imagery, and though much here fits those descriptions, there's a great deal of it that's also quite gaudy and goofy and, dare I say, campy.
07/29/08
... the concluding chapter of Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy dispenses with the overt stylization of its predecessors ... in favor of a sobering dose of realism.
07/04/08
Mother of Tears is contrived, confused, clumsy, and quite simply dreadful.
07/03/08
Mother of Tears feels like a copy, like someone "doing Argento", instead of the real deal that it could have been.
07/03/08
Just as twisted, surprising and gruesome as anything that Argento has given us in the past and a more than worthy successor to its two predecessors.
07/01/08
So although Argento may not be in peak form, he does seem to be enjoying himself and there are still flashes of the old master.
06/27/08
A gruesome drama enacted by a cast that speaks English with a bewildering variety of accents, Mother of Tears is reliably gruesome and occasionally startling but not particularly scary.
06/26/08
Asia Argento's outright horrendous performance ruins what could have been a decent B-movie.
06/23/08
... goofy fun, in its own way. But it's the same goofy fun we've seen in dozens of other films for years now, by Argento and others.
06/20/08
In comparison to the majority of bland Hollywood widgets cranked out on a corporate conveyer belt, these mad, personal misfires are the real masterworks.
06/19/08
The visuals are vibrant and fans of Argento's bravura bloodletting will thrill to his imaginative use of pikes, entrails and his daughter, who performs a shower scene for Dear Old Dad.
06/19/08
The visual mastery that not only excused but actually elevated the illogic of the first two installments of the trilogy is absent here.
06/19/08
No, this film doesn't make a ton of sense but it is highly entertaining. An insane, delirious bloodbath.
06/16/08
This is a foreign horror movie that's all about style and shock value. The fruit of Argento's mad vision is an acquired taste, but there's plenty to chew on here.
06/09/08
In The Mother of Tears, the last installment of the 'witch trilogy' that began, three decades ago, with Suspiria, an excavated urn unleashes a torrent of homicidal madness in Rome.
06/06/08
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