Mother of Tears

Mother of Tears
Theatrical release poster
ItalianLa Terza madre
Directed byDario Argento
Screenplay by
Story byDario Argento
Based onSuspiria de Profundis
by Thomas De Quincey
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyFrederic Fasano
Edited byWalter Fasano
Music byClaudio Simonetti
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Medusa Distribuzione (Italy)
  • Myriad Pictures (United States)
Release dates
  • 6 September 2007 (2007-09-06) (TIFF)
  • 24 October 2007 (2007-10-24) (Italy)
  • 6 June 2008 (2008-06-06) (United States)
Running time
102 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • United States
Languages
  • English
  • Italian
Budget$3.5 million
Box office$3.1 million[1]

Mother of Tears (Italian: La Terza madre; lit.'The Third Mother') is a 2007 supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento, and starring Asia Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Moran Atias, Udo Kier and Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni. The film has also been billed in English-speaking media as Mater Lachrymarum, The Third Mother (English translation of the film's original Italian title) and Mother of Tears: The Third Mother.

Written by Argento, Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch, the film is the concluding installment of Argento's supernatural horror trilogy The Three Mothers, preceded by Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980). The film depicts the confrontation with the final "Mother" witch, known as Mater Lachrymarum.

  1. ^ "The Mother of Tears (2007)". Box Office Mojo.