Lose Your Lunch with New 'Mother of Tears' Clip
Filed under: Horror, NSFW, Cinematical Indie, Trailers and Clips
I was just about to eat lunch when ComingSoon.net directed me to this super violent and gory clip from Mother of Tears, the latest flick from Italian horror legend Dario Argento. Now I've lost my appetite. Before you click on the link (which brings you to an exclusive from ShockTillYouDrop.com), be warned: you may lose your lunch or have some serious nightmares or both. Also, it's likely not very safe to watch the video at work. The film is the final installment in Argento's The Three Mothers trilogy, which also includes the horror classics Suspiria and Inferno. Mother of Tears stars the filmmaker's goth-sexy daughter, Asia Argento (unfortunately best known in the States as Vin Diesel's co-star in xXx), as an American studying abroad at the fictional Museum of Ancient Art in Rome. She unearths a sort of Pandora's box-like urn that unleashes a witch known as the Mother of Tears and the apocalyptic chaos that comes with her.
Reviewing from the Toronto Film Festival last fall, Cinematical horror hound Scott Weinberg called the film, "the master's best flick since ... hell, since at least the mid-'80s ... fans of the old-school Argento splatter-fests will find a handful of truly gruesome sequences here, while those who are on the lookout for a bleak yet tongue-in-cheek tale of the apocalypse will most likely appreciate what's in Tears." Now we can see what Scott meant by "truly gruesome."
Mother of Tears opens in limited release this Friday.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-02-2008 @ 3:41PM
SMJ said...
OK, I'm not squeamish about movies but that clip was unlike anything I've ever seen.
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6-02-2008 @ 3:56PM
Alastair Foster said...
Having seen the film i thought it was terrible :(
Not a patch on his older work. This is definitely the most gorey scene in the film though :)
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6-02-2008 @ 4:06PM
Scott said...
Woah. Gross.
The clip definitely wavers back and forth from absolutely disgusting to almost comedic. When he starts to choke her with her own intestines...that was kinda funny. The monkey though, that wasn't funny at all. That took me back to Monkey Shines. Scary stuff. Thanks for the heads up.
Scott
he-shot-cyrus.blogspot.com
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6-02-2008 @ 4:45PM
Rufus said...
Give me a break, is this a prank article or something? From beginning the end, I laughed to myself as I ate my turkey sandwich - only pausing now to reply.
That wasn't scary to me, it wasn't visceral enough to seem real enough to scare me... enough.
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6-02-2008 @ 5:23PM
kevjohn said...
That's gotta hurt!
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6-03-2008 @ 6:27AM
mylesloughhead said...
it was a horrible end to a cool trilogy, even the death scenes weren't as good as Suspiria or Inferno. I sure hope they dont ruin the remake of Suspiria.
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