02-01-2019, 07:57 PM
^ Worth a shot
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Inferno (1980)
Dario Argento's follow up to 'Suspiria' continues in the same spirit of bizarre supernatural weirdness, unsettling violence, big ProgRock sounds (this time by ELP's Keith Emerson) and extreme coloured lighting. A rambling plot strings together a series of extended murder set pieces of a number of astonishingly beautiful women. The use of rumbling bass sounds, stylised lighting and inventive camerawork is really quite unsettling in these sequences. Not a film for the creature-phobic as there are ants crawling on hands, angry cats going berserk and an old man being eaten alive by hundreds of writhing rats. I don't think any cats were "harmed in the making of this film" but I'm sure quite a few were scared and upset. One briefly alive mouse was very definitely harmed by one of the cats. Hmm, dodgy. I couldn't tell you what the story was about but 'Inferno' had enough chills to be worth the watch.
Emerson's score isn't quite up there with Goblin's best but it has it's moments:

Inferno (1980)
Dario Argento's follow up to 'Suspiria' continues in the same spirit of bizarre supernatural weirdness, unsettling violence, big ProgRock sounds (this time by ELP's Keith Emerson) and extreme coloured lighting. A rambling plot strings together a series of extended murder set pieces of a number of astonishingly beautiful women. The use of rumbling bass sounds, stylised lighting and inventive camerawork is really quite unsettling in these sequences. Not a film for the creature-phobic as there are ants crawling on hands, angry cats going berserk and an old man being eaten alive by hundreds of writhing rats. I don't think any cats were "harmed in the making of this film" but I'm sure quite a few were scared and upset. One briefly alive mouse was very definitely harmed by one of the cats. Hmm, dodgy. I couldn't tell you what the story was about but 'Inferno' had enough chills to be worth the watch.
Emerson's score isn't quite up there with Goblin's best but it has it's moments: