#Mother of Tears

[fanofspooky]

Dario Argento’s horror movies

[horror-aesthete]

Mother of Tears, 2007, dir. Dario Argento

[scatterbrain33]

Prayers of The Three Mothers

(Mother of Sighs)

Dark Queen,

She who carries the sighs of the hopeless,

We gather as one in reverence.

We call on thee within in the endless darkness,

To release us from the mortal coil once our time has come,

so our sorrows may finally lift and melt away in the sun.

In life and in death,

We await your embrace.

Mother Suspiriorum

(Mother of Tears)

Weep for us,

Sorrowful mother.

Weep for the restless sleepers,

For your sisters who’s skins were blackened by burning flame,

Weep for those suffering from the cruelties of this world.

Let your cries fill the night sky,

And may your tears wash away the sorrows and doubts in our hearts.

Weep for us,

Mother Lachrymarum

(Mother of Darkness)

Defier of God,

Maiden of Lunacies,

Through your darkness, the true wicked ones are revealed,

Where those who are oppressed find sanctuary,

Mother of Outcasts,

Whatever path we may walk,

We return and rejoice in your shadows as we bless your name,

Mother Tenebrarum

(Combined Prayer)

Fear,

Darkness,

Sorrow,

Grant us mercy in this unforgiving world,

Nourish our souls with your tears in this blessed hour,

And breathe new life into us in which we are reborn.

Unholy Mothers,

Guide us with your hands and teach us to draw empathy from cruelty,

Kindness from hatred,

To embrace the shadows but never let them consume us.

Mater Tenebrarum

Mater Lachrymarum

Mater Suspiriorum

Hail the Three Mothers!

(Artwork not mine)

[yeahiwasintheshit]

since i watched luca guadagnino's suspiria (2018) a couple weeks ago, and loved it, i found out that dario argento actually created a trilogy after the success of the first suspiria in 1977, and named it the three mothers trilogy. the three mothers were 3 witches, and each mother/witch had their own movie. it was actually kind of an intriguing idea, so i rewatched the first 'suspiria' again, then his 2nd movie 'inferno' and i just finished the trilogy tonight with 'mother of tears'. bottom line is this trilogy is pretty terrible lol... story-wise at least. lol

like i really liked agento's suspiria, cause it was a sort of a technicolor nightmare. argento plays with lighting and color in an interesting way that pulls you thru a story - a story that is pretty light, and plot points that do not make alot of sense, but it doesnt really feel that important cause of the sort of dreaminess of the movie. it just all kinda works together. if without the lighting and color and score, suspiria would just not work... at all i think.

the problem i think with making a trilogy out of a movie where its style over plot, is you have to quickly make a coherent movie afterwards, and 'inferno' is as coherent as 'suspiria' is. which is not much at all lol its kinda obvious plotting is not really argento's strong suite lol but i have to say that visually 'inferno' is just about as visually beautiful as 'suspiria'. it uses color and lighting as effectively. but 'inferno' does not have the score from the band goblin, like suspiria does, and that seriously is to its detriment. it really shows what a good score can do for a movie.

so eventho inferno wasnt as good as the 1st one, it wasnt awful. now 'mother of tears' is awful. completely head scratching nonsensical weirdness. and not really in a good way. there were some interesting parts, but it was not shot with the visual flair for color and lighting as the first 2, or a score that stood out to me like the goblin score, so you kinda have the worst of it all. lol boring sort of normal lighting, and an illogical story, where youre like 'what?' & a kinda forgettable score. for most of the movie the characters motivations feel so scripted, like the only reason this is happening is cause it needs to happen for the next thing in the script to happen. it just kinda feels like a bunch of scenes tied together, trying to get to the end. and the end movie and end to this trilogy was also very dumb and anti-climactic.

also and this is just something i found hilarious, is that the 3 witches in the movies are supposed to be ancient beings, who come back to wreck havoc, and the witch in 'mother of tears' has such fake silicon-y boobs. like even I could tell. lol it was just a little distracting lol

so overall, suspiria 1977 was kind of lightning in a bottle where all the pieces work together - very well. color, lighting, score really elevated a fairly weak script. tbh, i really think the score is what really takes it to another place. cause inferno is pretty close to suspiria in color and lighting and story, but without that goblin score it just falls flat.

i dont know if i recommend the three mothers trilogy, but you should def see both suspiria movies, the 1977 & 2018 "remake".

[esqueletosgays]

MOTHER OF TEARS (2007)

La terza madre

Director: Dario Argento Cinematography: Frederic Fasano

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[xbirdiex]

Suspiria - 1977 - Dario Argento

Suspiria - 2018 - Luca Guadagnino

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[mask131]

It will forever frustrate me that we will never know what the original "Mother of Tears" movie should have been like.

We all know that "Mother of Tears" was one of the most disappointing endings we could have to the Three Mothers trilogy, and that it clearly is not the movie originally intended to complete the set. Made thirty years too late, abandoning all the elements that united together the two first movies and made their strength, changing the actors, constantly cut and re-cut for a much smaller budget than originally anticipated, producers forcing explanations and call-backs everywhere... This third movie was a mess, and I do understand why people choose to consider the Three Mothers a duology rather than a trilogy.

But the thing is that the "true" Mother of Tears, the truly intended finale of the trilogy could have existed - and we have pieces of it left. Right as Inferno was being completed, "Mother of Tears" was in the work, and almost everything was ready to shoot it right after Inferno's release and complete the trilogy. There was a whole script prepared back then - a script which to my knowledge never got released. We could have had a movie that was a true sequel and conclusion to "Suspiria" and "Inferno", with the same techniques, same mindset, same actors, same aesthetic, and we could have had the complete triad. But it never came to pass, and it seems the original script will never saw the light of day... Unless it has and I had no knowledge about it.

The only piece of Internet I found that talked about what Mother of Tears could have been, and originally was supposed to be, is this article right here. And even then it is vague and allusive since again, the project was kept secret at the time (except for the name) and then once it was abandoned a first time the script never got released. Their best clues (as they explain in the article) is to look at the movies that might have been or clearly were influenced by the unnamed "Mother of Tears": Bava's Demons, Nicolodi's Da Profundis, Argento's Phenomena... And the best theory the article can push forward, due to the similarities between Da Profundis and Demons, is that the original Mother of Tears might have centered around the making or screening of a movie that ended up angering the Mother of Tears and bringing her supernatural wrath upon the world... But even then, that's a vague theory with coincidences to back it up.

Endless frustration will be my curse to not even know what the original conclusion was meant to be, and what was originally supposed to take the place of this laughable garbage movie we got.

[ninjajustice]

Mother of Tears ( 2007 )

[femalewhumper701]

Feeling like shit, so it's comfort viewing hours. Time to cross another Argento off my bucket list, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage.

I love the small tiny bits of progressivism that wander into Argento's work. I don't think it's super intentional, or done with any particular agenda, it's just refreshing.

In Deep Red, the mc doesn't have much more than a "wow, okay" reaction to his friend being gay, treats his friend's partner the same as if he'd been a straight female, and leaves. The person I was watching it with and I looked at each other after that scene and went "...did that just happen? In this genre?" [Spoilers in the tags]

In Tenebre, the interviewer starts talking about how the book in question takes a stand against perversion because the killer targets gays, and the author goes "...he's the killer. He's insane, you're not supposed to agree with him." Despite the female reporter being a caricature of what men of the era believed a feminist is. Nobody's perfect.

Now, "Bring in the perverts," says one inspector, "we can't rule out that the killer may be a pervert." A row of sex offenders files in, exhibitionist and rapists and a child molester. The last to enter is a either a drag queen or a trans woman, it's unclear. "No, no, no!" says the other inspector, going on to call her by her chosen femme name. "For the last time, Ursula is a transvestite, not a pervert!" (Ursula clutches her purse indignantly. "Well, I should hope so!" she says, and storms off.) Find me another giallo - or much any 80s media - that doesn't consider "transvestite" to be a kind of pervert. I'll wait.

[fanofspooky]

Dario Argento movies

[horror-aesthete]

Mother of Tears, 2007, dir. Dario Argento

[alephskoteinos]

Dario Argento should not have waited to make Mother of Tears.

[shellshooked]

10,000 years is a long time

[drenched-in-sunlight]

Erdtree’s Sacred Tears.

(discussion of my inspiration to draw this under the cut)