I don't think that it's a secret anymore that I dearly love Dario Argento. The man doesn't just make slasher films...he makes transcendent slasher films. They defy convention and expectations with an almost palpable contempt. Inferno was is a thematic sequel to his greatest film Suspiria. It deals with a brother and sister who investigate a strange book which claims that there are powerful spirits trapped inside three buildings in Rome, Freiburg, and New York City. Why should they care? Well...it turns out that the sister has been living in one of the buildings and discovers a corpse in a sunken ballroom beneath the floorboards. One by one, the people around them start getting picked off in increasingly gruesome manners. The film is a wonder and glory to behold. But it has two major problems. The film never explains who or what kills off all of the victims. And second, the film is very fragmentary. It seems to follow a bizarre stream-of-consciousness as it drifts from one location and character to another. There are several prominent scenes which are inconsequential to the plot. One of the most unnerving examples is a scene where a man drowns a sack full of cats in a river. Why is he drowning the cats? Who is he? The film never really explains. Of course, he is then attacked by sewer rats and stabbed to death by a nearby hot dog vendor. See what I mean? Inferno doesn't behave like most horror films. But then again, that's what we have come to expect from Dario Argento. I wouldn't want it any other way.
7/10
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