This trailer begins with a razor cutting into a soft white substance. It looks like wax, but it unclear. A woman asks another woman to come and take a look at something and one of them cuts herself. A drop of blood falls and she says, "Dammit!" Then we get the name "Dario Argento," which reminds us that this is the third in his Three Mothers trilogy. The women discuss what one of them found: some kind of talisman. And then we get more creepy images and sounds than should be allowed: Hands reaching up under a red cloth; screaming; a woman pulling down a red negligee; someone being pushed or otherwise falling down; same person (I think) with someone in his or her mouth; same person with a bloody mouth, crying. While that's happening these words appear on the screen: "Mother of Tears is back ... to feed on your pain." A priest tells a woman that violence spreads through the city: "murder, fires, church vandalism" (hopefully he's not ranking them from least to most horrifying). The woman replies, "Michael, you're scaring me." That makes two of us. Seriously. Maybe it's that I'm watching this while home alone at night, or maybe I'm just a huge wuss, but this is possibly the scariest thing I've seen ever. Which explains why I cannot watch Argento's films despite knowing that he's brilliant. They're looking for the mother of tears, but the problem is that what we cannot see is truth and what we see doesn't exist, apparently. That's grim. There is lots of screaming and running away and other very scary stuff, which comes to its disturbing conclusion as a woman asks, "Who wants to eat the girl?" Please, if you watch this, don't tell me what it's about. I'm going to have nightmares for weeks just from watching the trailer. Reviews By People Who've Actually Seen It:
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