As with SUSPIRIA, Argento creates a beautiful world in which the characters get to experience their horrors, but I think there is a lot more style than substance. The plot seems to take a back seat to colored lights, surreal architecture, and outlandish music.
Inferno
Come face to face with Hell.
Rating
2.5 (1)
Release Date
2/7/1980Runtime
107 minsOverview
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
ItalianBudget
$3,000,000Revenue
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A nightmarish descent into a Manhattan apartment building ruled by dark supernatural forces, where architecture itself becomes a labyrinth of horror. Dario Argento's baroque visual style transforms domestic space into a fever dream of menace.
Mood
UnsettlingDread-soakedClaustrophobic
Themes
FamilySurvival
Tone
Operatic
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
FormalistHigh-contrastPainterly
Structure
Single location
Heads up
Graphic violence
Leigh McCloskey
Mark Elliot
Irene Miracle
Rose Elliot
Eleonora Giorgi
Sara
Daria Nicolodi
Elise Stallone Van Adler
Sacha Pitoëff
Kazanian
Alida Valli
Carol
Veronica Lazăr
Nurse
Gabriele Lavia
Carlo
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Professor Arnold / Dr. Varelli
Leopoldo Mastelloni
John, the Butler
Ania Pieroni
Musical Student
James Fleetwood
Cook
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