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Mother of Tears | 
 enlarge | Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Asia Argento, Coralina Cataldi-tassoni, Valeria Cavalli, Udo Kier, Philippe Leroy
Studio: Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 8785
Format: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 81527
UPC: 796019815277
EAN: 0796019815277
ASIN: B001AR0D6I
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 23, 2008
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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 09/23/2008 Rating: Ur
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After waiting 28 years for the third feature in Dario Argento's Mother trilogy, die-hard fans (like myself) flocked to theaters to catch IMother of Tears/I. 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, ISuspiria/I (1977) and IInferno/I (1980), induced anxieties in viewers that many of us hoped would enhance the film's horror and suspense. So revered are ISuspiria/I and IInferno/I that one needs an extremely open mind to avoid instantly turning IMother of Tears/I 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, ITerror at the Opera/I. 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 IMother of Tears/I 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 IMother of Tears/I DVD is the interview extra with the man himself, who is still master even if he makes a few stinkers. --ITrinie Dalton/I
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 Dario is still a blast December 21, 2008
CraigalsCosmosis (Chicago,IL USA)
Some of the acting was bad.The ending with the Mother of Tears death was the easiest killing of the main villian I have ever seen and perhaps a tad cheezy.Do I care?...HELL NO!!!The kill scenes besides the one I just mentioned are unparalleled to most horror movies Iv'e seen in the last 10 years.The rich colorful panoramic scenes of"Suspira"and"Inferno"are not here but Argento makes up for this with impressive scenes of gore.If you are a fan of Dario Argento,then you should see the last of the mothers trilogy.I'm now going to watch the mothers trilogy all over again.
 The monkey is soooo annoying! December 19, 2008
Card Recipient (Arkansas)
Hello! I liked this movie, but thought Suspiria and Inferno are way SUperior! This movie is INFERior! The gore and violence is done in a creative and stylish way, so it is better than a cheesy Friday the 13 gore-scene. I actually LOVED the soundtrack! The creepy chanting of "Motheeerrr" added some definite tense goose bumps to the experience! What I didn't like about this film is the final confrontation. Wow....what a rip-off. Even the anti-climatic end to Stephen King's The Stand is better than this! The Third Mother can be destroyed that easily?! Maybe Sara could have just gave her a mean look, and the hag might have dropped dead from fear of retaliation! Other than the awful final "battle", the movie is good. The monkey is so annoying though! I was glad when it was disposed of...in a typical Argento fashion! That scene was actually funny...sorry, but it was. I couldn't stand that thing! Overall, descent movie with awful conclusion, and stylish gore and soundtrack. I do not regret buying it.
 Well... December 14, 2008
Christopher G. Dukellis
Not the greatest of horror movies, MOTHER OF TEARS is entertaining enough for me to say that it is worth the rental fee, but not to buy. Asia Argento wasn't able to capture my attention like she normally does in her past films. Some of the villains look like Harry Potter rejects.
Disclaimer: I'm not a hardcore Argento fan, but... November 29, 2008
R. Redmond (New York, United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
to me, a good movie is a good movie, and a bad movie is a bad movie. And this movie is bad. Really bad. This movie started out fairly promising and caught my attention. By the middle, I found myself growing more and more frustrated by how much I was forcing myself to care. Towards the end, it was a painful struggle not to eject the disk. I simply wanted to know how it ends so I didn't waste an hour of my life watching the first half. To add insult to injury, the ending was so generic and anticlimatic, it might as well have been a Charmed episode from 1998. But not as good. The film builds up and has the nerve to expect you to care about the main character, who is nagged by the generic and silly ghost of her mother to "USE YOUR POWERS MY CHILD!!!" What powers? She can turn invisible at will, which we already know. You're made to anticipate a dramatic finale where she discovers her powers and it helps her to destroy the Mother of Tears. Turns out anyone could have done it with a fireplace poker. She's told her mother was an incredible healer and she inherited her gifts, but nobody is healed...in fact, she's kind of a bad luck charm because people drop like flies when she's around. One is left with the feeling that this movie was thrown together last minute, which is why I find it so shocking that it took over 25 years to conclude the trilogy. The only reason I give this film two stars is that there were a few genuine moments of surprise, and it was filmed beautifully. To balance that out, the movie resorts to gore and gratuitous nude scenes straight out of a Friday the 13th Part 1, 2, or 3...you pick (that's not a compliment). "Mother of Tears" is a pretty accurate description of this poor excuse of a movie.
Mother of disappointments... November 26, 2008
PHD (Windsor, CT USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Good start, OK middle, awful ending. Some amateurish acting, hokey dialogue, gratuitous nudity, distasteful killings. Way below Argento's best work, ditto for his daughter, who is mediocre in the lead role. The extra features are interesting, though.
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