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List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.96 Features • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 02 April, 1980 DVD Release : 27 February, 2007 |
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Inferno description Dario Argento's sequel to Suspiria, his first and to date only American hit, is an even more incoherent nightmare fantasy. Laden with symbolic imagery and fantastic explosions of death shot in candy-colored hues, it's a bloody feast for the eyes. Mark (Leigh McCloskey), an American music student in Rome, rushes home to New York after a frantic phone call from his sister only to find an empty apartment and obscure clues about a supernatural presence in her spooky building. It all has something to do with the mysterious Mater Tenebrarum, one of the "Three Mothers" of Argento's murky mythology, and the fun house of an apartment house she inhabits, complete with a fully furnished underwater ballroom, miles of secret tunnels flooded in red and blue light, and hidden passageways under the floorboards. Meanwhile, there's a killer running around stabbing beautiful women for who knows what reason, a crippled bookseller attacked by rats, and a homicidal hot-dog vendor in Central Park. Why? It's best not to ponder such mysteries--Argento obviously isn't as concerned with making sense of his meticulously staged murders as he is with lighting them with just the right hue. Dramatically it's inert, a parade of quirky but faceless victims dispatched with elaborate care, but it's beautifully designed and executed, a spectacle of elaborate set pieces and magnificent decor orchestrated with a complete disdain for narrative logic. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Argento's Inferno ignites the screen. |
| Italian film director, producer and screenwriter Dario Argento is best known for his work in the "giallo" horror film genre, which is a assimilation of the horror, fantastique, and erotic film genres first created by director Mario Bava. Argento not only acknowledges Bava as an influence, but also recognizes Riccardo Freda, Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini as influences for his films. Argento collaborated with George Romero on the 1978 zombie cult classic, [[ASIN:B0002IQNAG Dawn of the Dead]].
His violent, highly-artistic supernatural thriller, Inferno (1980) is the second film in a trilogy about "The Three Mothers," three ancient witches residing in three different modern cities (Rome, Freiburg, and New York). [[ASIN:B00005ASOI Suspiria]] is the first film in the trilogy, and the third movie (The Mother of Tears) was released in 2007. (I have read the title "Suspiria" and the concept for the trilogy was drawn from Thomas De Quincey's sequel to his [[ASIN:0140439013 Confessions of an English Opium Eater]], [[ASIN:B000RH1JD8 Suspira De Profundis]].) Inferno tells the story of a young man's investigation into his missing sister, Rose Elliot (Irene Miracle), a poet living alone in a New York City apartment building that was also the residence of an ancient witch. After discovering an old book called The Three Mothers, Rose is brutally murdered. Soon others are also murdered when her brother Mark (Leigh McCloskey) arrives in New York from Rome asking questions about his sister's disappearance. Argento collaborated with his his mentor, Mario Bava, on the film's optical effects, matte paintings, and camera shots. Although Argento frequently called Inferno one of the least favorite of his films (possibly because he was suffering from acute hepatitis during production), it is a definitive horror film with surreal imagery that will ignite your TV screen. G. Merritt |
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