Mother of Tears
by Dario Argento
List Price:
Our Price: $12.49
You Save: $7.49 (37%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $5.68 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Adam James, Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Moran Atias, Valeria CavalliDirector: Dario Argento
Brand: GENIUS PRODUCTS INC
Producer: Dario Argento
Writer: Dario Argento
Producer: Claudio Argento
Writer: Adam Gierasch
Writer: Jace Anderson
Writer: Simona Simonetti
Writer: Walter Fasano
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of Mother of Tears
Movie Review: Visually entertaining at best
Summary: 2 Stars
There's not much to be said about this film that has not already been said. I've tried to enjoy it on separate occasions: sober and drinking a few beers with it but on both occasions it's apparent that Mother of tears is just a silly film flat on story and large with the gore and violence.
The only reason it didn't get one star is because of the gore and nudity which I feel many modern horror films lack now a days.
Summary of Mother of Tears
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."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
Art House & International DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Top 25 Horror DVD's of 2008(ish)
No Man's Land: The Rise of ReekerLions Gate; Release date: 2008-10-14; DVD
Best price: $7.46
Price in other shops:
Automaton TransfusionWELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-03-04; DVD
Best price: $2.30
Price in other shops:
The StrangersUniversal; Release date: 2008-10-21; DVD
Best price: $4.52
Price in other shops:
Saw V (Unrated Director's Cut)Lions Gate; Release date: 2009-01-20; DVD
Best price: $5.95
Price in other shops:
Mother of TearsRelease date: 2008-09-23; DVD
Best price: $6.25
Price in other shops:
George A. Romero's Diary of the DeadRelease date: 2008-05-20; DVD
Best price: $4.81
Price in other shops:
The CottageSony; Release date: 2008-05-13; DVD
Best price: $5.95
Price in other shops:
TeethWELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-05-06; DVD
Best price: $15.11
Price in other shops:
Borderland - After Dark Horror FestLION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT; Release date: 2008-03-18; DVD
Best price: $7.89
Price in other shops:
American ZombieAMERICAN ZOMBIE (DVD MOVIE); Release date: 2008-07-08; DVD
Best price: $10.94
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Hell RideRelease date: 2008-10-28; DVD
Best price: $6.93
Price in other shops:
My Bloody ValentineLions Gate; Release date: 2009-01-13; DVD
Best price: $11.94
Price in other shops:
Let The Right One InRelease date: 2009-03-10; DVD
Best price: $15.97
Price in other shops:
Inside (Unrated)WELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-04-15; DVD
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops:
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Widescreen)Universal; Release date: 2008-11-11; DVD
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops:
PiecesRelease date: 2008-10-28; DVD
Best price: $13.25
Price in other shops:
Feast II: Sloppy SecondsRelease date: 2008-10-07; DVD
Best price: $4.75
Price in other shops:
Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey VelvetRelease date: 2009-02-24; DVD
Best price: $16.97
Price in other shops:
Suspiria (2-Disc Special Edition)Ryko Distribution; Release date: 2007-09-25; DVD
Best price: $10.22
Price in other shops:
InfernoRyko Distribution; Release date: 2007-02-27; DVD
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops: