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FEATURE: What if...Anna Manni got a trilogy?

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 By Stephen Pytak What if...Anna Manni got a trilogy? It's something I thought about while driving around early this morning. It's not every day I come up with an idea to rewrite a couple of films made by Italian horror master Dario Argento. And I thought I'd share my thoughts on how I'd improve the cinematic journey of one of Argento's more intriguing protagonists, and, in the process, attempt to fix one of the biggest missteps of his career.  Which one? We'll get to that. No. Maybe it's best to reveal that now at the start of this ramble, so the reader has some idea what the point of all this is? O.K. Fine. In 2007, Argento unveiled the final entry in his Three Mothers Trilogy. It was called La Terza Madre (The Mother of Tears). And while the film has a neat twist here and there and some memorable moments, it left many of Argento's hardcore fans cold. While I'm not used to writing fan fiction, I came up with a pitch to make The Mother of Tears  a ...