Mother Of Tears [2007]

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The story of the Three Mothers opens at the beginning of the 11th century, when the origin of witchcraft is depicted as three sisters on the coast of the black sea. Grisly deaths await Italian citizens after an archaeology student (Asia Argento) accidentally releases a demonic witch from her ancient prison. Sarah locates a powerful alchemist, whom Marta mentioned as her only hope to learn how to fight Mater Lachrymarum. Catholic Church workers dig up the body of a 19th-century church official, whose casket has a box-shaped urn chained to it. At this point, shooting was set to begin in late spring of the same year and was to be released between November 2006 and January 2007.

Even the end credits are gloriously edgy, with Dani Filth singing the vocals to Claudio Simonetti’s ending music whilst all sorts of gruesome medieval art scrolls beside the credits. The Three Mothers (Italian: Le Tre madri) is a trilogy of supernatural horror films by Italian filmmaker Dario Argento. In the 2018 remake of Suspiria, the roles of both Madame Blanc and Helena Markos, referred throughout as Mother Markos, are played by Tilda Swinton.The Cannes Film Festival requested that The Third Mother be ready in time for consideration as a 2007 competition contender. Whilst she’s a likeable character, she doesn’t really have the naïve quality you’d expect from these films, and this is oddly refreshing to see.

Much of which can be seen in some of his other later works such as Jennifer, Pelts, or even The Stendhal Syndrome. As early as 1984, Daria Nicolodi asserted in an interview with Fangoria – alongside Argento – that they had "finished the script for the third [film] but there are a few things we are still working on to perfect the project, a couple of special effects and locations, that sort of thing. Unfortunately for Sarah, her supervisor opens an ancient container filled with ancient things and reads some ancient words.With the Mother's followers crushed as the cave collapses, Sarah and Enzo laugh in horror and shock upon reaching the surface, as they realize that the threat of the Three Mothers has been defeated once and for all.