Inferno
Beware of Dario Argento: A 20-Film Retrospective
June 17 - 29, 2022
A supernatural conspiracy unites Suspiria’s German dance academy with a cursed Upper West Side apartment building in this Art Nouveau meltdown, the second entry in Argento’s “Three Mothers” trilogy.
Despite its nightmarish extension of Suspiria’s adult Technicolor fairy tale, the middle segment of Argento’s “Three Mothers” trilogy was barely released by international distributor 20th Century Fox due to a mid-production regime change. This partly explains why the loosely connected second installment—about a supernatural conspiracy that unites Suspiria’s Freiburg Dance Academy with a cursed Upper West Side apartment building—didn’t get its own sequel until almost 30 years later. Still, Inferno’s Art Nouveau meltdown remains a creative highlight for Argento, given its rapturous expression of Jungian archetypes, brought to life with an operatic score composed by British prog-rocker Keith Emerson, some technical and visual-effects assistance from horror maestro Mario Bava, armloads of domestic cats, and the specter of Death himself. Presented in an English dub.
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