Hyper, I should warn you now, after Deep Red and Tenebre, it's pretty much all downhill from here. I actually watched Deep Red and Tenebre as a double feature around Halloween with friends and beer. I wonder if how much of my fond memories from those two films come from the atmosphere.
Check out Phenomena, Opera and Inferno, but skip the rest.
Mother of TearsWilco has never been more right about anything, not even that time when he, as a youth, as we all do, discovered that throwing rocks at a beehive is a bad idea. As did I, heed some wise cautionary advice and plowed ahead into what turned out to be a dangerous and bewildering action that could have seemed like a good idea only at some unlikely confluence of events.
Mother of Tears is a bad, bad, bad movie. In many ways not just inept, but outright baffling. Its a bit like a Cinemax softcore flick got mixed in with a SyFy original 'film', with the terrible acting and production values that such a combination would imply. There's even shitty looking gore effects, which are the one sort of special effect that doesn't cost money.
So very much outlandish shit happens in this film that I'm tempted to label it comedy, but it really does seem to take itself seriously, which only makes the crazy shit that propels this film all the crazier. The only part that ever did make sense was when I finally figured out that the lead actress, the Asia Argento character, was actually a high-functioning distinguished mentally-challenged fellow. True, this was never even implied in the film, but that's really the only explanation that makes sense for her actions and emotions.
I can't completely hate on a film where the forced disrobing of supple breasts saves the world (yes, really), and I actually think there's something half-admirable about how Dario Argento one day and decided to make the most batshit movie he possibly could and pawn it off as a horror film. Its not scary, but it is somewhat entertaining, just probably not on purpose. (
C)
