Inferno

1980 Directed by Dario Argento

Before tenebrae, beyond suspiria there is... Inferno

A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.

Leigh McCloskey Irene Miracle Eleonora Giorgi Daria Nicolodi Sacha Pitoëff Alida Valli Veronica Lazar Gabriele Lavia Feodor Chaliapin Jr. Leopoldo Mastelloni Ania Pieroni James Fleetwood Rosario Rigutini Ryan Hilliard Paolo Paoloni Fulvio Mingozzi Luigi Lodoli Rodolfo Lodi Dario Argento

Alternative Titles

Feuertanz, Feuertanz - Horror Infernal, Horror Infernal - Feuertanz der Zombies, Inferno - Horror Infernal, 인페르노, Dario Argento's Inferno

thriller horror

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Review by Ian West ★★★★★ 26

Overshadowed by Suspiria on the left and Tenebre on the right, Inferno is an absurd masterpiece of visual perfection. Argento’s descent into supernatural insanity is everything I could want from a film that changes main characters every 20 minutes and tosses narrative out the window—taking the the time to fuck my mind with eye popping colors in every frame of every shot. I’ve often said that one day Inferno will be my favorite Argento film, and that day may be here because I love it just as much as Suspiria.
For a movie that supposedly makes no sense, every single shot is perfectly planned to the last detail by an artist who meticulously paints every brush stroked sequence with intense beauty, and with Inferno, we’re treated to a cornucopia of lecherous madness, perversely displayed in a grandiose tapestry of absurd supernatural perfection.

Friendly reminder: Don’t fuck with Witches. Ever.
Review by claire 🗡️💀🕷️ diane ★★★★★ 15

Hoop-Tober #5
I loved absolutely everything about this movie. The burning colors! The gels! The ancient witchcult mythology! The remoteness of it. The witch with a coven of cats (of course, cats would serve the Mother of Darkness)! Glowing eyes in the night! Creeping dread in the rotting interstitial spaces! That soundtrack thundering!
Then quiet: "Hello... Hello... Hello..." The disembodied laugh! Corpses underwater. Creeping in the nightspace.
The staring woman in the musicology class with the best movie cat (sorry, Gustaf), a pile of Satanic fluff!
Giallo pushed into an ocean of dream! The black gloves into the supernatural abyss! The living dream of it! The pure dreamstuff miasma! How slow and floating and glacial like a dream. How it…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 7

100
Hallways.
"Who's there?"
Staircases and cracked doors and fractured glass, luminous and dangerous colors, candelabras and cats, too.
"Hello?"
No answer.
Argento with no context. In other terms, every image will haunt the inner voids of your mind for the rest of your life.
Review by zeno 🛸 ★★★★★ 23

Sometimes, you see a film and wonder what the fuck took you so long. There's always an ache of regret when this happens, yet at the same time it's like restorative magick. An alchemical concoction you've had tucked away on some shelf to be stumbled upon one day. For I have now imbibed and seek the coven's embrace...
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★★★ 17

Music is such an important component of Argento's work and I wish I liked Keith Emerson's score, after Suspiria Argento wanted to continue the three mothers/witches/sisters saga but decided Inferno needed a more delicate[!!?!] score compared to the oppressive & consuming Goblin score that accompanied the mother of sighs, I'm sure he had his reasons and I'm sure it works for a lot of people but when it boils down to personal taste, it doesn't work for me.
I prefer deep, slow, low, heavy & distorted bass for the most part, I find it comforting, maybe to counteract how anxious my brain is at all times? Which is also probably why I've been self-medicating with THC for over 20 years. You're probably…
Review by Tony the Terror😼🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★★ 7

This movie is an absolute masterpiece and I’ve watched it SO MANY TIMES. Every time I watch it, different things stand out to me. At this point, I wouldn’t say “new” things because seriously, I’ve watched this A LOT. I figured for this review I would share the things that stood out on this particular visit...
When I was a kid, I used to read horror movie books all the time because we didn’t have any internet. In one of those huge books, I read about the underwater room scene and was absolutely fascinated and awed by the description and single accompanying picture. I wouldn’t see it for quite a few years later because DVD’s weren’t even around and sometimes…

Recent reviews

Review by Kal Bailey ★★★½

This has some really great scenes, but overall it is lacking. It has amazing colors and set design though, so it's visually appealing the whole way through. Also sick poster
Review by dmatt3 ★★½

no plot just vibes
Review by Chris Heck ★★★½

I think I’m falling in love with Giallo...
Review by calebtboyd ★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Worse than "Suspiria."
Like "Suspiria," death scenes go on too long and the pace is dreadfully slow.
"Suspiria" had a better soundtrack, lighting, and makeup.
The music history class scene -- that is not what happens in a music history class. There would have been discussion, and the professor would have explained a lot more than just the composer and title.
Absolutely unnecessary and kind of long scene where a man drowns a bag full of cats.
The voice actor for the main villain badly mispronounces a lot of Latin words.
Review by Andy Ferguson ★★★★

Cats > Everything
Review by Emil ★★★

It's an interesting movie that does that weird 80s Italian horror thing where a scene goes on for minutes longer than necessary, killing its tension and originality.
The concept is amazing, execution not great.
Review by Ya boi, Mike. ★★★½

When the power goes out in the apartment, the walls are bathed in red and blue lights. You really can’t get any more Giallo than that. This film is very fun and everything you’d expect it to be. Lots of people looking around in a really cool looking house/apartment/crawlspace with vibrant lighting who get killed by a mysterious gloved killer. It doesn’t make any sense from a writing standpoint, but it’s literally a Dario Argento film. I’m just here for a good time.
Review by Jovani ★★★½

what happens when a twink gets involed and burns down the house
like super kooky and like kinda bad but also kinda fun
Review by halloween_ ★½

after seeing 8 of his movies, I can say that an accurate summary of argento's filmography would be: "hates gays and cats", nothing more