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The Mother of Tears

(No longer in theaters)

Rating: R — for strong graphic violence and gore, language and some sexuality/nudity
Director: Dario Argento Cast: Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James, Moran Atias, Valeria Cavalli
Running Time: 98 minutes
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Genre

Horror, SciFi/Fantasy

Producer

Claudio Argento

Distributor

Myriad Pictures/Mitropoulos Films

Release Date

Jun 6, 2008

Release Notes

Limited

Official Website

www.motheroftearsthemovie.com

Review

Dario Argento is back with a sequel to his deliriously surreal masterpiece, Suspiria. It opens with a woman being strangled with her own intestines, and that’s before it gets ugly. His daughter Asia playsï¿½with breathless convictionï¿½the young woman with psychic powers who’s all that stands between humanity and the ï¿½second age of witches.ï¿½ Her odyssey has a little Harry Potter, a little Da Vinci Code, and enough splatter to make the late Lucio Fulci dash his brains against the inside of his coffin for the chance to come back and top it. The first two thirds are gangbusters, with marauding bands of tarted-up young witches who look only slightly less scary than Lindsay Lohan and her pals on an average night. But toward the end the killings of women border on pornography, and the climax, in which Asia yanks off the title witch’s sacred shmatte, is a bad joke made worse by having a Mother of Tears who looks like the Mother of Silicone. — David Edelstein