The Mother of Tears
The Mother of Tears Italian La Terza madre , literally The Third Mother is a 2007 ItalianAmerican supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Asia Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Moran Atias, Udo Kier and Coralina CataldiTassoni. The film has also been billed in Englishspeaking media as Mater Lachrymarum, The Third Mother English translation of the films original Italian title, and Mother of Tears The Third Mother. Written by Argento, Jace Anderson, Walter Fasano, Adam Gierasch and Simona Simonetti, the film is the concluding installment of Argentos supernatural horror trilogy The Three Mothers, which began with Suspiria in 1977. The film depicts the confrontation with the final Mother witch, known as Mater Lachrymarum.
The urn is shipped to the Museum of Ancient Art in Rome where Sarah Mandy Asia Argento, an American studying art restoration, works. Sarah is dating the curator Michael Pierce, a single father who is away from the museum that night. With help from the assistant curator, Sarah opens the box and finds the cloak, a dagger, and three statues representing the three witches. Sending Sarah to her office to retrieve tools to help her translate the text on the artifacts, the curator is promptly attacked by the demonic agents of Mater Lachrymarum. Sarah arrives too late to save her boss who is being disembowelled by the monsters and starts to flee the museum. Unfortunately, she is pursued by Mater Lachrymarums familiar a baboon and is only able to escape when a disembodied voice magically throws open a series of locked doors keeping her trapped inside the museum. Sarah tells the police what happened as she spends the night with Michael and his son. Michael visits the Cardinal who sent him the urn only to find out that, shortly after mailing the urn to him, he had a severe stroke and is now in a coma. An assistant of the priest gives Michael a piece of paper, which the Cardinal was writing on before collapsing. On it is scrawled the name Mater Lachrymarum. As he leaves the hospital, a pair of witches observe Michael leaving the building.Back in Rome, chaos descends as a wave of mass suicides, murder, and violence engulfs the city. Sarah continues her own research only to be summoned by Michael to his apartment. The witches have kidnapped his young son and wont return the boy to him unless he stops his investigation. Sarah begs him to call the police who are tailing Sarah, ever since the murder at the museum but Michael refuses to and instead opts to visit a local priest who is a trained exorcist. This goes badly for Michael the two witches see him and he is soon captured and murdered, along with his son, whose body is cannibalized by the rapidly expanding coven. However, befo
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