Inferno (1980)

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The Heart is Lifeless, Cold, an ...
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"Italian filmmaker Dario Argento is considered the all time great horror maestro, with films like Suspiria and Inferno on his resume. HIs daughter, Asia Argento, is an aspiring young filmmaker and actress with a few films under her belt. Her latest, with a title as agonizingly interminable as the film itself, is a near-shameful entry into the oeuvre of her family. It’s torture porn meets melodrama meets senseless violence meets, well, porn. There is not one image in The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things that did not disturb, annoy, or offend me. Based (loosely, I presume) on a short story by J.T. LeRoy, Argento’s film stars herself as an irresponsible teenage mother and Jimmy Bennett as Jeremiah, her seven-year-old son dragged from the comparatively heavenly foster home and thrust into a world of sexual and physical abuse. No film excites me more than one that sets out to toss countless disturbing images at my face for unidentifiable reasons. Schindler’s List po ... " [More]

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"Here's another one for the horror fans: The House Next Door contributor Kevin Lee is producing a series of video essays based on this definitive list of the 1,000 Greatest Films. His most recent installment tackles Inferno, Dario Argento's horror classic about architecture, identity, and death-by-cats. In Lee's mind, Argento's style contains "a touch too much camp in its perversity to be truly horrifying." He instead "locates [his] pleasure" in Argento's emphasis on place and space, recasting Inferno as something like "a horror version of an Antonioni movie." But whereas Antonioni was concerned with the psychology of his wandering women, Argento's female protagonists, though similarly traumatized, are little more than graphic elements, "as abstract as the concept of red or blue." It's really fascinating stuff. You can check " [More]

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