Inferno
Inferno is a 1980 film from Italy, directed by Dario Argento, running 107 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo and euro-gothic.
- Year
- 1980 · 1980s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Director
- Dario Argento
- Updated
- 30 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (19/100)
- Also known as
- Dario Argento's Inferno
- Banned in
- UK
Defined in the glossary: Giallo, Euro-gothic
One of the 33 titles dropped from the DPP list, an unusually restrained Argento film to have been seized as a video nasty.
Argento's sequel to Suspiria. Even less plot, even more colour. A building that is alive.
Dario Argento's follow-up to Suspiria, the second in his Three Mothers trilogy, and if anything even less interested in narrative. A woman in a strange New York apartment building discovers it was designed by an alchemist as a home for one of three ancient witches, and the film proceeds as a series of gorgeous, illogical, dread-soaked set pieces.
The underwater ballroom sequence is one of Argento's most beautiful. Mario Bava contributed uncredited effects work near the end of his life. Watch it as a nightmare and stop looking for a plot.
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The cycle in depth
- The giallo, 1963 to 1976
A line of yellow paperbacks, a killer in black gloves, and Mario Bava building the American slasher a decade before Hollywood cashed the cheque.
- Fantaterror: the Spanish horror boom, 1968 to 1976
Two cuts of every film, one for the censor in Madrid and one for the drive-in. Democracy killed the trick in two years.
Filed alongside
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Tenebrae
Argento's coldest and cleverest. That crane shot earns its reputation.
A Bay of Blood
Bava invents the slasher a decade early. Friday the 13th copied two kills outright.
Phenomena
Insect telepathy, a Swiss boarding school, and a straight-razor chimpanzee. Argento off the leash.
Black Sunday
Bava's debut as director. Barbara Steele and a mask full of spikes.
Blood and Black Lace
The template, and still the best-looking film on this list.
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Argento's least favourite of his own films. He is roughly right.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Argento's debut, and the film that made the giallo an export.
Deep Red
Argento's best. Goblin's score does half the work and knows it.
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Argento's third. Unavailable for decades, and worth the wait for the last shot.
The Curse of Frankenstein
The film that built Hammer, in blood-red colour the censors hated.
Vampyros Lesbos
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