I promise that this post will have exclusive pics and video later on, but for now here's a quick wrap on all that went down around our premiere of Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.

The night kicked off with a launch party for the film where basically everyone you'd ever want to meet showed up.  Naturally, Dario and Asia Argento stole the night away, but that only scratches the surface.  Also on hand to revel in the rapturous gore that was Mother of Tears were Diary of the Dead director George A. Romero and a surprise appearance by Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright.

Shifting to the screening itself, the red carpet was fairly tame.  While autograph hounds and journalists alike tried their hardest to get a piece of Asia, the one she listened to most was, of course, her father (Dario Argento, naturally)- who was eventually able to call her into a photo shoot with a simple "Asia, andiamo!"

Inside the audience was pumped and ready for some gruesome witch action and Mother of Tears did not disappoint.  I'll not spoil the great details for those of you that missed out, but we get a disembowelment within the first 20 minutes or so.  Argento crafted an excellent batch of suspense with some big-time fright moments and one of the most realistic renderings of a sliced Achilles tendon I've ever seen.  He also name drops in the film, overtly referencing Suspiria a couple of times.  As for the characters themselves, the arch-villain only got the second loudest cheer of the night.  The loudest cheer during the film was given to a monkey. 

Dario on the monkey: "I loved the monkey.  They are not as predictable as humans.  They are all anarchists".

The second best quote of the night followed shortly thereafter with "All witches are lesbians".

As I said, pics and video will be up here later on.  Feel free to leave a comment and tell us what you thought of the film.