Mother of Tears

After beginning the witchy tale of the malevolent "Three Mothers" at a secretive ballet academy in Freiburg, Germany (Suspiria), and later tracking the supernatural goings-on to a doomed tenement building in New York City (Inferno), Italian horror icon Dario Argento draws his long-running trilogy to ...more

Walk into the final installment of Dario Argento's Three Mothers trilogy anticipating the kind of nightmarish, candy-colored surrealism that defined Suspiria and Inferno, and you're bound to be disappointed. Take a step back, jettison those expectations, and accept the fact that Argento simply isn't the same filmmaker he was when those films were released roughly 30 years ago, and chances are you'll enjoy this nasty apocalyptic shocker for what it really is, rather than what it may have ...more