Asia Argento's outright horrendous performance ruins what could have been a decent B-movie.
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06/23/08
Mother of Tears (2008)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:34
Rotten:35
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
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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... [More]
Starring: Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James, Udo Kier
Director: Dario Argento
Reviews for Mother of Tears
... 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
A feeble, incidental continuation of his earlier films.
06/10/08
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
A crude, artless bogey tale. Attempts to position it as a camp masterpiece are misguided and condescending,
06/06/08
Mother Of Tears at least has some of the go-for-broke gothic spirit of [Argento's] earlier work. He's just lost the ability to shape it into something artful.
06/06/08
The gore is simply midnight-movie disgusting. And the ending is rushed and flat -- as if it had been tacked on by another hand.
06/06/08
The film lacks the visual class of previous Argento efforts and relies more on shocks than suspense.
06/06/08
Much of this spooky-spirits-in-Rome chiller is by the numbers.
06/06/08
Although The Mother of Tears teeters on the preposterous and awkward, it is diverting and reveals that the filmmaker's signature bravura flourishes and use of sinister settings are still intact.
06/06/08
Top CriticIt's hard to find lines and performances like Mother of Tears outside of anything that doesn't come with a XXX rating.
06/06/08
Mother of Tears transcends camp without forsaking it. Argento pitches the proceedings toward the ridiculous (his pacing is as perfect as some of the witches' breasts are fake) but only in the name of reaching a new cheesy sublime.
06/06/08
This long-awaited final offering about the apocalyptic second sacking of Rome by an unholy pack of demons gets lost in the back alleys of ’70s-era Italian horror films and unconvincing Cinecittà Studio sets.
06/06/08
...Silly, awkward, vulgar, outlandish, hysterical, inventive, revolting, flamboyant, titillating, ridiculous, mischievous, uproarious, cheap, priceless, tasteless and sublime.
06/06/08
Top CriticHitting the ground running and never giving up for 90 nasty minutes, Mother of Tears is Dario Argento's final statement on his precedent as the definitive Delacroix of dread.
06/05/08
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