Village Voice on Mother of Tears

village voice > film > Toronto Film Fest: Having a Blast at the Toronto Film Festival by Nathan Lee: "And then there's Mother of Tears: The Third Mother, Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's concluding chapter of the trilogy that began with Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980). An instant cult classic and easily the most entertaining film of the festival to date—or maybe ever?—this orgy of crazed plotting, magnificently bad acting, cheap special effects, and priceless conviction meditates on the second fall of Rome (riots, road rage, mothers chucking babies off bridges), which antiquities restorer Asia Argento precipitates by releasing an ancient evil witch from an urn. Plus unholy monkeys, plus psychic lesbians, plus Japanese goth freakazoids, plus Udo Kier—and that's so not the half it, I can't even tell you."