History Film / MotherOfTears

%%Zero Context Example* BigBad: Mater Lachrymarum

%%Zero Context Example* IAmAHumanitarian: "Who wants to eat the girl?"

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The idea of what some reviews referred to as a “magical t-shirt” might seem odd, but were [[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/453498 not at all unheard of in the medieval period.]]

* ArtifactOfDoom: Mater Lachrymarum's tunic.
* BigBad: Mater Lachrymarum
* BuryYourGays: Marta and her lover.

* CurbStompBattle: Sarah vs Katerina, Sarah vs [[spoiler: Mater Lachrymarum.]]
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Giselle

* DressCodedForYourConvenience: The Mother's witches
* DugTooDeep

* {{Gorn}}: A lot of it.

* TheHecateSisters: The Three Mothers. Also, the trope's use in mythology is lampshaded.

* IAmAHumanitarian: "Who wants to eat the girl?"
* IdiotBall: Sarah grabs hold of it a few times.

* MonsterMisogyny: Certain elements of the film may lend fuel to the fire that Argento has issues with women.

* NothingCanStopUsNow: Played straight, and almost word for word. Guess what happens the second it's said.

* SceneryPorn: Averted in comparison to its predecessors.

* KensingtonGore: Sadly averted.

The third and final film in the 'Three Mothers' trilogy, following 1977's ''Film/{{Suspiria|1977}}'' and 1980's ''Film/{{Inferno}}''.

* AndShowItToYou: Giselle has [[spoiler: her belly slit open and is then strangled to death with her own intestines.]]

A 2007 film written and directed by Creator/DarioArgento and starring his daughter, Creator/AsiaArgento and Udo Kier.

A 2007 film written and directed by Creator/DarioArgento and starring his daughter, Creator/AsiaArgento.

The third and final film in the 'Three Mothers' trilogy, following 1977's ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'' and 1980's ''Film/{{Inferno}}''.

Workers excavating outside of a cemetery in Viterbo, a town near UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, unearth an urn chained to the coffin of a medieval knight. The urn is later sent to an art museum, where student Sarah Mandy and a friend decide to open it. Big mistake, as it contains a tunic belonging to a centuries old and long dormant witch known as Mater Lachrymarum, aka the Mother of Tears. The artifact restores the Mother's powers, bringing about a wave of murders, suicides and vandalism. As witches from all over the world flock to Mater Lachrymarum's side to witness the second fall of Rome, Sarah learns that her mother was a white witch, and that she herself may be the only one capable of stopping Lachrymarum's evil reign.

* InfantImmortality: Subverted ''at least'' three times. A mother throws her baby off a bridge for no discernable reason (though narm in the form of a SpecialEffectsFailure keeps it from being too brutal). A posessed woman chops her toddler in half with a kitchen knife, and Michael's son is kidnapped and never heard from again, though arguably [[spoiler: the body being eaten by the witches late in the film]] is his.

Workers excavating outside of a cemetery in Viterbo, a town near Rome, unearth an urn chained to the coffin of a medieval knight. The urn is later sent to an art museum, where student Sarah Mandy and a friend decide to open it. Big mistake, as it contains a tunic belonging to a centuries old and long dormant witch known as Mater Lachrymarum, aka the Mother of Tears. The artifact restores the Mother's powers, bringing about a wave of murders, suicides and vandalism. As witches from all over the world flock to Mater Lachrymarum's side to witness the second fall of Rome, Sarah learns that her mother was a white witch, and that she herself may be the only one capable of stopping Lachrymarum's evil reign.

The third and final film in the 'Three Mothers' trilogy, following 1977's ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'' and 1980's ''Film/{{Inferno}}'', the film was not well received by critics, and harshly criticized by fans for not living up to the standards of its predecessors.

* ShoutOut: To StarWars, oddly enough. Sarah's mother instructing her from beyond the grave has a very "use the force, Luke," feel to it. Also, Helena Markos' haggard appearance being retconned as resulting from a battle with Sarah's mother paralells a simular retcon in RevengeOfTheSith.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Every use of TheHecateSisters trope from the 11th century onward is a fictionalized depiction of the Three Mothers.

The third and final film in a trilogy, following 1977's ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'' and 1980's ''Film/{{Inferno}}'', the film was not well received by critics, and harshly criticized by fans for not living up to the standards of its predecessors.

The third and final film in a trilogy, following 1977's ''{{Suspiria}}'' and 1980's ''Film/{{Inferno}}'', the film was not well received by critics, and harshly criticized by fans for not living up to the standards of its predecessors.

A 2007 film written and directed by DarioArgento and starring his daughter, Creator/AsiaArgento.

A 2007 film written and directed by DarioArgento and starring his daughter, AsiaArgento.

The third and final film in a trilogy, following 1977's ''{{Suspiria}}'' and 1980's ''Film/{{Inferno}}'', the film was not well recieved by critics, and harshly criticized by fans for not living up to the standards of its predecessors.

Workers excavating outside of a cemetery in Viterbo, Rome, unearth an urn chained to the coffin of a medieval knight. The urn is later sent to an art museum, where student Sarah Mandy and a friend decide to open it. Big mistake, as it contains a tunic belonging to a centuries old and long dormant witch known as Mater Lachrymarum, aka the Mother of Tears. The artifact restores the Mother's powers, bringing about a wave of murders, suicides and vandalism. As witches from all over the world flock to Mater Lachrymarum's side to witness the second fall of Rome, Sarah learns that her mother was a white witch, and that she herself may be the only one capable of stopping Lachrymarum's evil reign.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Every use of TheHecateSisters trope from the 11th century onward is a fictionalized depiction of the Three Mothers.

* WashingtonWasAnAlienSpy: Every use of TheHecateSisters trope from the 11th century onward is a fictionalized depiction of the Three Mothers.