10 Horror Films You Constantly Have To Defend Loving

9. Mother Of Tears (2007)

Described by the New York Times as €œsilly, awkward, vulgar, outlandish, hysterical, inventive, revolting, flamboyant, titillating, ridiculous, mischievous uproarious, cheap, priceless, tasteless, and sublime€, Mother Of Tears is the concluding chapter in Dario Argento€™s €œThree Mothers Trilogy€ and, disappointingly for fans, it doesn€™t measure up to Suspiria (1977) or Inferno (1980). On the plus side, however, there€™s plenty of unintentional humour. Argento€™s budget is so low that he has to stage Armageddon as cheaply as possible, resulting in a montage of women baring themselves in public while men take clubs to parked cars. Moreover, if the sudden appearance of gangs of loud and obnoxious young girls signifies the end of the world, we really are in trouble. It€™s all something to do with Mater Lacrimarum, the Mother of Tears herself, who revels in chaos and human despair and wants to usher in the second era of witches, the Bush-Cheney years having been a bust. Hazily defined at best, she turns out to be a beautiful naked witch in hastily-applied mascara that can only be defeated by burning the single stitch of clothing she appears to own, thus causing an earthquake. Obviously.