100
Empire by Kim Newman
The kind of film that starts off with a climax and builds to a plateau of surrealist delirium that, one way or another, will have you shrieking.
Inferno
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- Italy
- 1980
- · 107m
Director
Dario Argento
Cast
Leigh McCloskey,
Irene Miracle,
Eleonora Giorgi,
Daria Nicolodi,
Sacha Pitoëff,
Alida Valli
Genre
Horror,
Thriller
In New York City, a poet with an interest in rare books discovers an account of three powerful witches in her apartment building. Disturbed when a brief search of the premises suggests the story might be true, she writes to her brother, who is studying musicology in Rome. Through a series of investigations, a conspiracy of evil is revealed.
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What are critics saying?
83
The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps
For all its nonsensical qualities, it also contains some of Argento's most hallucinatory images and unforgettable setpieces, as always reason enough to watch even when the usual reasons are nowhere to be found.
80
BBC
There are some outstanding sequences in this movie that are truly chilling
80
BBC by Almar Haflidason
There are some outstanding sequences in this movie that are truly chilling
75
The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias
The writing is clumsy, with information packed crudely into the dialogue, and his attention to the performances is inversely proportional to his attention to style. Yet his “New York” has an eerie, deserted, otherworldly quality—much as Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut would later—and some of the individual setpieces are spectacularly vibrant.
75
Slant Magazine by Ed Gonzalez
Dario Argento undervalues his material, but his set pieces are glorious enough that the film’s plot contrivances can be forgiven.
50
TV Guide Magazine
Although not as powerful, impressive, or exciting as Suspiria, Inferno is still intriguing, effective, and stylish enough to make the narrative unimportant.
50
TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
Although not as powerful, impressive, or exciting as Suspiria, Inferno is still intriguing, effective, and stylish enough to make the narrative unimportant.
40
The New York Times
The movie's distinguishing feature is not the number or variety of horrible murders, but the length of time it takes for the victims to die. This is a technique that may have been borrowed from Italian opera, but without the music, it loses some of its panache.
40
Time Out
A much more conventional and unexciting piece of work.
40
Time Out by Staff (Not Credited)
A much more conventional and unexciting piece of work.
40
The New York Times by Nina Darnton
The movie's distinguishing feature is not the number or variety of horrible murders, but the length of time it takes for the victims to die. This is a technique that may have been borrowed from Italian opera, but without the music, it loses some of its panache.
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