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Dario Argento (story)
Release Date:
2 April 1980 (USA)
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Tagline:
Terror that's hotter than hell! more
Plot:
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 synopsis
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The most beautiful of horror movies
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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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Also Known As:
Dario Argento's Inferno
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Runtime:
107 min | Germany:106 min | Sweden:102 min (heavily cut)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
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 Restricted
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According to 'Leigh McCloskey', Dario Argento's brother Claudio Argento spoke better English than Dario so often he would have to translate Dario's direction to the cast.
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Crew or equipment visible: During the cat attack, a human hand can be seen throwing some cats at the actress.
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Referenced in A Head for Horror: Lamberto Bava on 'Macabre' (2001) (V)
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Va' pensiero...
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Inferno is Dario Argento's masterpiece. For once, he abandoned the idea of a coherent storyline altogether and made a movie that is simply a series of beautifully made setpieces. Many people have criticized Inferno's plot; such people are completely missing the point. Inferno is no more concerned with plot than Luis Bunuel was with movies such as The Phantom of Liberty; where Bunuel was concentrating on images and ideas, Argento is concentrating on images and emotion, specifically fear.
Each scene features a character or characters running afoul of the Three Mothers, entities introduced obliquely in Argento's previous movie, Suspiria, and developed considerably here. The third movie in the Three Mothers trilogy remains unmade. Each scene is carefully coded by judicious use of colour and sound. All the best setpieces in the movie feature no dialogue whatsoever (most notably the scenes in the underwater chamber and the lecture theatre). Much of the most significant dialogue is whispered offscreen by unseen persons.
Inferno is that rarest of breeds: pure cinema. Not only could it not have succeeded in any other medium, it cannot be adequately described in words. Anyone who is seriously concerned with artistic cinema must see this movie, as should most horror fans. Anyone who has trouble getting their head around movies that push beyond the conventional three-act storyline will almost certainly hate it.