barrynewblood

Inferno has all the visual beauty of Suspiria with it's stunning production design and colorful lighting with random bursts of cringe-worthy violence, but something is missing. It can never figure out whose story it is and some of the acting is not the best which makes it hard to get on board completely. It still has enough memorable moments and great visuals to make it worth a watch.

A young American dance student arrives in Germany and discovers that the school she came to study at is a front for a witch's coven and they're not thrilled she's trying to find out all of their secrets. Beautiful visuals and head-scratching moments abound as Dario Argento spins his adult fairy tale for you like a half-remembered childhood nightmare. There's not another movie quite like it.

After the mediocrity of part 3, there seems to be a lot more enthusiasm behind the scenes of this sequel and I do believe everyone involved thought this would be the last sequel, because they pull out all the stops. Once again, Jason has survived all the damage done to him in the last film and he breaks out of the morgue, leaving a trail of dead bodies behind him, as he makes his way back to the woods surrounding Crystal Lake where he decides to terrorize a house full of partying teens and a single parent family that lives next door.

Everything from the kills, the effects, the score, and the performances seem to be heightened this time, creating a nice over the top mood that would have been a fitting end to the series...but we all know how that turned out.