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2 April 1980 (USA) moreTagline:
Terror that's hotter than hell! morePlot:
Semi-sequal to 'Suspiria' has a American college student in Rome, and his sister in New York investigating a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches. full summary | full synopsisNewsDesk:
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One of My Favorite Dario Argento's Movies, With an Intriguing and Frightening Story and Great Atmosphere more (98 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Leigh McCloskey | ... | Mark Elliot | |
| Irene Miracle | ... | Rose Elliot | |
| Eleonora Giorgi | ... | Sara | |
| Daria Nicolodi | ... | Elise Stallone Van Adler | |
| Sacha Pitoëff | ... | Kazanian (as Sacha Pitoeff) | |
| Alida Valli | ... | Carol, the caretaker | |
| Veronica Lazar | ... | The Nurse | |
| Gabriele Lavia | ... | Carlo | |
| Feodor Chaliapin Jr. | ... | Professor Arnold / Dr. Varelli (as Feodor Chaliapin) | |
| Leopoldo Mastelloni | ... | John, the Butler | |
| Ania Pieroni | ... | Musical Student | |
| James Fleetwood | ... | Cook | |
| Rosario Rigutini | ... | Man | |
| Ryan Hilliard | ... | Shadow | |
| Paolo Paoloni | ... | Music Teacher |
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107 min | Germany:106 min | Sweden:102 min (heavily cut)Country:
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Iceland:16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | South Korea:15 | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Finland:K-16 (cut) | France:-16 | Italy:VM14 | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 (heavily cut) | USA:R | West Germany:18 | UK:18 (cut) | UK:X (cut) | Finland:K-18 | Germany:BPjM RestrictedFun Stuff
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Twentieth Century Fox co-financed the film because it's predecessor Suspiria (1977) had been quite a successful film for their company. moreGoofs:
Continuity: In the scene where Kazanian is investigating a noise in his shop, he is shown reaching towards the table closest to him. As he's reaching down, his right crutch falls from under his arm. However, in the next mid-shot of him backing towards the bookshelf behind him, the right crutch is just starting to fall from under his arm. moreSoundtrack:
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In New York, the poetess Rose Elliot (Irene Miracle) reads an ancient book called "The Three Mothers" that she bought in the bookseller and antique Kazanian close to her building. The architect and alchemist E. Varelli, who tells that had designed and built three buildings for three mothers,in Rome, New York and Freiburg, wrote an impressive story in London. These threes wicked mothers, called Mater Suspiriorum (the oldest one), Mater Lachrymarum (the most beautiful) and Mater Tenebrarum (the youngest and cruelest), intended to rule the world with sorrow, tears and darkness. In accordance with the book, there are three keys, each one of them hidden in one building. Rose realizes that she lives in one of the buildings, and decides to look for the second hidden key in the cellar. From this moment on, weird things happen to her and she decides to write a letter to her brother Mark Elliot (Leigh McCloskey), a student of musicology in Rome, and asks him to visit her in New York. Mark never meets his sister and finds who the three mothers are indeed.
This is the beginning of "Inferno", one of my favorite Dario Argento's movies, with an intriguing and frightening story and great atmosphere. There are many flaws in the screenplay; the characters are not well developed, so their motives are not clear; and there are lacks of explanations for many events, so the viewer does not understand why the evil mothers attack the characters of the story, but anyway it is a cult Gothic movie. With some improvements in the screenplay, this movie would be a masterpiece classic. I have already seen this scary movie four times in a VHS I have recorded a couple of years ago from cable TV, and unfortunately it has not been released on VHS or DVD in Brazil. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "A Mansão do Inferno" ("The Mansion of the Hell")
Note: On June 23rd, 2009, I saw this movie for the fifth time in an imported DVD.