The Mother of Tears
2008 ‘La terza madre’ Directed by Dario Argento
Synopsis
What you see does not exist. What you cannot see is truth.
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.
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As much as I like Suspiria and Tenebrae, I don't hold Dario Argento on a pedestal like a lot of people do. Which means I'm probably a bit more generous towards Mother of Tears than many die-hard Argento fans, but despite it not being a total abomination as some would have you believe it is still a long way off from the surreal beauty of his benchmark works. Still, it's got some good kills, plenty of blood and tits so not all is lost.
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Ummm, pretty poor unfortunately... A few choice kill sequences, but the rest is just wooden acting, bonkers script, awful costumes/make-up and bad vfx. It just feels really low budget, and I can't get my head round how Dario Argento can have come from the highs of Susperia, Deep Red and so on, to this?...
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Is this what it's come to? I've seen every last Argento and this is where I stop.
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What a mess. Seriously. And yet, a fascinating movie, as with most Argento outings of recent years. This movie is so flawed I can't even begin to describe it. The plot is senile. The acting is, for the most part, atrociously bad. The things that happen are a grab-bag of copies from his own and other directors' movies (I felt more than once that I was watching a copy of Phenomena or The Ninth Gate). The movie is stuffed with horror clichés, character motivations and actions that make no sense whatsoever, and deus ex machina apparitions of all kinds of demons, madmen, and sadistic killers. Everything in this movie is gratuitous, unmotivated, and over the top, from the witches which…
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A high-camp gore-fest that does not live up to greatness of Suspiria nor the cat-hurling lameness of Inferno. Asia Argento plays a mentally challenged woman charged with the task of killing the final of the Three Mothers - the Mother of Tears. Asia puts in a scenary-chewing performance rivaled only by the pesky M.O.T. sidekick, a constantly shrieking monkey. Good fun for a midnight show.
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As much as I like Suspiria and Tenebrae, I don't hold Dario Argento on a pedestal like a lot of people do. Which means I'm probably a bit more generous towards Mother of Tears than many die-hard Argento fans, but despite it not being a total abomination as some would have you believe it is still a long way off from the surreal beauty of his benchmark works. Still, it's got some good kills, plenty of blood and tits so not all is lost.
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I watched this AGAIN!? WHY?!
Simple answer: I couldn't believe just how far a powerhouse of creative talent and vision could fall so maybe I was wrong first time I saw it.
I wasn't.
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What happened to Dario Argento?
A colossal failure on all levels.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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if you expecting anything like any of his other films well you be dissapointed doesnt even feel like a Argento film definatly his worst
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Is this what it's come to? I've seen every last Argento and this is where I stop.