Mother of Tears
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Movie Reviews of Mother of Tears
Movie Review: A Fine finale to the Three Mothers Trilogy!
Summary: 4 Stars
In Rome, an ancient chest contains an evil Urn that unleashes a dark force of unspeakable evil into the city. American art student Sarah (Asia Argento) discovers this horrific plague that is causing witches of many places to gather around to unleash demons and horrific things that is terrorizing the city into Chaos. According to a legend there are three master witches which the first one was killed in Germany then the second was killed in New York City and now the last and most powerful of the Three mothers must be stopped or the world would end.
Co-starring Udo Keier and Daria Nicolodi, this eargerly awaited after two decades sequel to "Suspiria" and "Inferno" from Dario Argento is finally here! this movie concludes the "Three Mothers" Trilogy. Sure the plot is incoherent but it does offer dark gothic atmosphere, decent performances, nudity, eroticism, a pulse pounding score and tons of graphic gore galore and torture such as a mouth being ripped apart and private part mutilation. This is a stunning and shocking horror fantasy is a nifty Italian/U.S. Co-production from one of Italy's true horror masters besides Mario Bava known as Dario Argento is shot in English and is not for the faint of heart but still worth owning to any fan of Italian horror, Dario Argento or gorehound.
This DVD features the film in it's uncut, unrated and uncensored version with good extras like a featurette, interview with Dario Argento and U.S. and Italian Trailers.
Also recommended: "Suspiria", "Inferno", "Deep Red", "Phenomena", "End of Days", "Prince of Darkness", "Re-Animator", "Mark of the Devil", "City of the Living Dead", "House By The Cemetery", "The Exorcist", "The Omen (1976)", "Demons 1 & 2", "The Church", "Cemetery Man", "In The Mouth of Madness", "Hellraiser 1 & 2", "Candyman", "Trauma", "The New York Ripper", "The Fog (1980)", "Halloween 1978, 2 and Rob Zombie's Halloween", "A Nightmare on Elm Street Series", "Freddy Vs. Jason", "Black Sunday", "Maniac (1980)", "The Antichrist", "Making Contact (a.k.a. Joey)", "Shock", "Poltergeist", "Rosemary's Baby", "Inside", "Versus" and "The Beyond".
Movie Review: A Fine Return to Form for Argento
Summary: 4 Stars
In the interest of full disclosure, I must state that I am an Argento fan, and not likely to be entirely objective when reviewing his films. I don't hold him to the same set of standards as other directors. It's a given his stories will have plot holes, and not all the actors will be Oscar-caliber. But the fact is, his genius often shines in so many other areas that the flaws are entirely forgivable. That said, Mother of Tears is Argento's best work since Tenebre.
It's pointless to spend too much time comparing this newest installment to either Suspiria or Inferno. There is more than twenty years between Inferno and Mother of Tears, and like most other artists of note, Argento has evolved his style. However, with the continually prowling camera, the mixture of the supernatural with detective work, and violence that is as creative as it is macabre, Mother of Tears strongly identifies with the films from Argento's classic period. On the other hand, it contains more violence and gore than all of his other films combined, which may put some viewers off.
I really wanted to give this movie five stars. But there are two detracting elements. First, not only is the actress who plays the eponymous Mother of Tears terribly miscast, but the character itself is weakly drawn and unconvincing. Thankfully, her cheesy scenes don't dominate the movie. Second, the ending itself, which involves a final confrontation with the Third Mother, is slightly ludicrous. Not to spoil the plot, but the supposedly all-powerful witch is fairly easily disposed of.
Whatever flaws this movie may have, it's a worthy addition to the Dario Argento catalog, and stands heads above any other horror movie that's been released in the past couple of years. The story is inventive and suspensful, the action fast and furious, and there are genuine shocks along the way. Whether or not you are familiar with Argento's other work, this is a great movie for horror fans who want more than standard fare.
Movie Review: Another Excellent Story By Dario Argento, But...
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a big fan of Dario Argento and I have been ever since I saw Deep Red in a small auditorium on my college campus back in the early 1980's. And ever since I heard that Suspiria was supposed to be a trilogy, I have eagerly awaited the sequels. Truth be told, Inferno, the second installment in the Three Mothers Trilogy, was a bit of a letdown. Inferno was a visually strong film, but the story seemed weak. Mother of Tears, on the other hand, is the opposite, a strong story which I feel successfully ties the three films together, but visually, the film seem rather devoid to me of the visual style present in Dario's earlier works, the weird camera angles and the vivid colors. Dario seems to fill the void in this film created by the lack of his trademark visuals with extreme and excessive gore, even for Dario. The gore in Dario's earlier works, such as Deep Red or Suspiria or Opera, seem to puncuate the film in moments that are extreme and savage, but not long sustained, but the gore in Mother of Tears seems to go on much longer. The camera seems to linger on it. I'm a horror fan, so I don't mind gore and the gore in this film isn't bad in any way, just different. In that respect, this film reminds me stylistically more of Dario's second season Master of Horrors episode, Pelts, rather than any of his other earlier works. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this movie very much and, as far as the story goes, I think that it is a fine conclusion to the Three Mothers Trilogy, but I can only give this film four stars. It is simply not the five star masterpiece that Suspiria, and Opera, also, are.
I should also mention that Dario's daughter, the beautiful and talented Asia Argento, stars in Mother of Tears and she turns in another fine performance.
Movie Review: A fitting end to the Three Mothers trilogy
Summary: 4 Stars
There are an awful lot of negative reviews here for Dario Argento's Mother of Tears, the very long anticipated conclusion to Argento's Three Mothers trilogy that began with Suspiria in 1977, and continued with Inferno in 1980. The point here is that if you love Argento's work, you'll either love what Mother of Tears has to offer, or you'll hate it and not deem it worthy in comparison to Suspiria, or to a lesser extent Inferno. Argento once again employs his daughter Asia in the lead role of Sarah Mandy, an art student who becomes the target of the resurrected Mater Lacrimarum (Moran Atias), and soon enough, evil witches gather and waves of chaos ensue in Rome. Sarah luckily has her own dormant psychic powers to aide her in her quest to stop the evil from further spreading, culminating in many montages of psychotic and bloody violence. As said before, Mother of Tears can't compare to Suspiria, but the film is plenty enjoyable on its own merits regardless. Argento is still a master at his craft, and there is some great camerawork and gorgeous cinematography to behold. The practical effects scenes of ultra-gory violence are pretty effective as well (except for the scene where a mother drops her infant child over the side of a bridge and the dummy's arm pops off before hitting the water), despite the fact that some of the CGI-based effects don't always work quite well. The acting ranges from decent to dreadful, but the unsettling atmosphere somehow manages to make up for it. All in all, Mother of Tears is certainly flawed, and is certainly no Suspiria (or Inferno), but it still manages to be an entertaining and unsettling ride that displays that Argento still has the tools that made him a master of the horror genre in the first place.Movie Review: Mama Mia!
Summary: 4 Stars
Let's get one thing out of the way first - considering that no one actually believed the three mothers trilogy would ever be completed, the release of this film is reason enough for horror fans to rejoice. Now, as for the the finished product itself, I think it ought not surprise anyone. People have complained that Mr. Argento has failed to grow beyond the parameters of the zenith he reached in the 1980s. I would agree. But for what it's worth this installment does deliver much of the director's trademark touches - souped up with what can be described as a delirious abandon to the absurd. Nothing in the convoluted plot involving a diabolical relic that somehow triggers the destruction of Rome makes any real sense but then neither did those in Suspiria or Inferno. Writing has never been Mr. Argento's strong suit anyway. What seemed lacking here was the originality and verve of his mesmerizing visuals in Suspiria which had elevated that film to its deserved cult status. We do get in its stead a ratcheting up of the gore and the (intended or otherwise) camp quotient replete with nubile lesbians chaneling the Comme des Garcons school of witchcraft, a hysterical monkey and one hunky sympathetic detective. So, while this doesn't quite achieve the brutal beauty of Suspria, it does manage to close the trilogy with a film that is nothing more or less than classic Argento. And that's not a bad thing.