Inferno
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1h 46m
Directed by Dario Argento | 106 mins | 1980
Showing Argento’s doubling down on visual logic of dreams, this mystical yarn of alchemy and witchcraft unfolds as a series of lurid setpieces and cryptic clue-drops, largely in a New York apartment building. Resisting explication, the story erupts with beautiful hues and haunting sequences, featuring a much-lauded underwater sequence and a score by prog-rocker Keith Emerson.
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