The Mother of Tears (2008)

Redundant and unnecessary.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."Mother of Tears" (R - 2007 - Italy)Sub-Genre: Gore/ParanormalMy Score: 6.5Cast=5 Acting=8 Plot=4 Ending=9 Story=4 Scare=7 Jump=4 F/X=7 Gore=10 Creep=7An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders. While several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city."Who wants to eat this girl?" I have not seen the first two in this trilogy ("Susperia" and "Inferno") and that took away from the story a bit as I did not know what was going on. After watching this for it's amazing gore, I will go back and watch the other two for sure!! After you get through all the visceral gore, you may see this for the haunting beauty within. It's one you can't help but talk about it after...both for the mess of a story or the great gore.

There is much to like here and I found myself more impressed with the film on 2nd viewing. I particularly liked the monkeys. But what kills the film for me is the lack of gravitas around the Mother figure here. she is too soft porn and thus difficult to take seriously. Her henchmen are fine, but she lacks genuine magic, and i. a film that takes magic as its subject, this pulls it down. In an Argento movie, we Can swallow the odd bit of scenery chewing (Udo) and even lack luster CGI and a lessening of the visual poetry of suspiria.... but only if that underlying sense of magic works. It half does work until the Mater turns up looking like a playboy centefold in a cape

All that horror Argento has been eating over the years has come out without the use of any laxative. And it sure does STEENK!!! After watching Suspiria (The Mother Of Sighs), and Inferno (The Mother of Darkness), you'd think Argento would give us his best for last. No unfortunately it is the SH*T-END of Argento's stick(possibly after scr*wing ASIA in the A*S).There is zero suspense in the film. In the gore department, the film goes overboard. There is more profanity is this film than the other two.Plot: 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.Final Vedict: Argent should've made a p*rno of Asia getting double Penetrated instead.

now I heard a lot of bad things about this movie, and I heard a lot of good things about this movie. For most Argento fans it was a love it, or hate it. I, Myself, have only watched 4 of his films, a majority being ones that the fans did not like. In my opinion this movie was a fun ride. Nothing serious, and nothing all that scary, but a cheesy cult movie nevertheless. There are plenty of special effects in this film, but many of them give the vibe of an Unrated ScyFy movie, bloody, but silly. There are many cool kills though, such as the beginning where a woman gets her mouth ripped apart. There are some very sexual parts of this movie, which I tend to get a lot of when I'm watching Argento films......I don't really know how to comment on that....The one thing that keeps on giving me chuckles is Asia terrible acting in this film. She's a great actress (especially in Land of the Dead) but in this film, every other line sounds so fake, and forced, I just can't help but Laugh. Another problem I have with this film, is that some of the things that people do here, don't make a lick of sense, and I have to yell out "WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT??!!" Also there is a part of the film where the main character's mother (a spirit) shows up, and communicates with her, and I just have to say....the special effect used during those scenes are eye nauseating. Other than that, this movie is PRETTY BAD, but not in a terrible way. It's one of those SO-Bad-it's-GOOD films, and I would recommend it only to B-movie lovers.