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Film Details
106 min / 1.85:1 / ["Color"] / Region Free
English: 7.1 DTS-HD; 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX; Dolby Surround 2.0 / Italian: Mono
Cast and Creators
Dario Argento
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About the Film
Written and directed by Dario Argento, INFERNO is the visually stunning second chapter of the “Three Mothers” trilogy begun with the classic SUSPIRIA. This surreal shocker stars Irene Miracle(NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS),Daria Nicolodi (DEEP RED) and Leigh McCloskey (DALLAS), and features a pulse-pounding original score by Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Blue Underground is proud to present INFERNO freshly transferred in breath-taking High Definition from the original uncut and uncensored negative, complete with exclusive new Extras!
EXTRAS
- Art & Alchemy – Interview with Star Leigh McCloskey
- Reflections of Rose – Interview with Star Irene Miracle
- Interview with Writer/Director Dario Argento and Assistant Director Lamberto Bava
- Theatrical Trailer
- Dario Argento Intro
NOTES & REVIEWS
“Argento At His Very Best!”
–DVD Maniacs
“A Dazzling, Stylish Feast Loaded With Some Of Argento’s Strongest Visual Strokes of Genius!”
–Mondo Digital
“Hypnotically Entertaining… A Worthy Follow-Up That In Some Ways Exceeds The Original!”
–Cinefantastique
“Contains Some Of Argento’s Most Hallucinatory Images And Unforgettable Set Pieces!”
–The Onion A.V. Club
“There Are Some Outstanding Sequences In This Movie That Are Truly Chilling!”
–BBC
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About the Director
Dario Argento (b. 1940) started as a film critic and screenwriter — he co-wrote the story for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West — before turning director with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), a giallo thriller that became an immediate international hit and helped shape the genre's visual grammar: black-gloved killers, elaborate murder set pieces, and camera work that implicates the viewer as a voyeur.
Argento's peak run through the 1970s and early '80s — Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebre — pushed giallo toward something closer to horror opera, pairing baroque violence with progressive rock scores (many by the band Goblin) and production design that focused on mood and color over realism. Suspiria in particular, with its saturated primary-color lighting and dance-academy-as-haunted-house premise, has become one of the most visually influential horror films ever made, still referenced constantly in cinematography and fashion decades later.
Argento's later career has been more uneven, but his influence on horror aesthetics — internationally, not just within Italian genre cinema — is difficult to overstate. Collectors drawn to giallo, or to horror as a visual medium rather than a purely narrative one, will find Argento's catalog to be essential, era-defining material.
