Dario Argento – Pages of Fun https://robertgomez.org Robert Wm. Gomez's Website Thu, 24 Sep 2020 01:51:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://robertgomez.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-garland_logo-32x32.png Dario Argento – Pages of Fun https://robertgomez.org 32 32 Movie Week Continues https://robertgomez.org/blog/2010/10/28/movie-week-continues/ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:51:09 +0000 https://robertgomez.org/?p=1415 My Halloween movie fest continued last night with a re-watching of Mother of Tears, the third film in the Three Mothers trilogy. When I first watched the film I pondered if it would get better on rewatching. Nope. It was actually more painful on the second viewing. What a rambling mess of a film with awful acting and dialogue all around. No screengrabs for this film. It doesn’t deserve that level of respect.

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My plans to watch a bunch of horror movies in the run-up to Halloween have not been going to well. I did manage to re-watch Dario Argento’s Inferno the other day. I have always considered this to be one of Argento’s weaker films of this era, but the more I watch it, the more I like it. It has much of the wonderful colored lighting, expressionist sets and dynamic compositions that made Suspiria so great. Also, despite the flawed and incoherent plot, there are plenty of memorable scenes.

Dario Argento's Inferno - Musicology

For some reason I especially like this scene where our hero, Mark, gets bewitched during his musicology class by The Mother of Tears…

Dario Argento's Inferno - Mother of Tears

This is only a brief cameo from the third mother, but it’s very effective. Too bad the actual movie about her, Mother of Tears,  was so mediocre. They should have just looped this scene for 90 minutes and released it as a feature.

Dario Argento's Inferno - Mother of Shadows

Inferno takes it its time in getting to the main villain, Mater Tenebrarum, but the scene in which she reveals her true identity is one of my favorites in Argento’s entire body of work…

Dario Argento's Inferno - Mark

Mark, don’t be lured into her fiery trap!

Dario Argento's Inferno - Mother in the Mirror

Without giving away the surprise, the shot above is so, so well done. Apparently, this is some of Mario Bava’s special effects handiwork. Good stuff. I encourage anyone who appreciates films simply for their beauty to check this film out.

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