Inferno (Argento, 1980): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.45pm
This film also screens on May 20th and here are the details of the season devoted to Dario Argento at the cinema in May.
Horror films expert Kim Newman hailed Inferno in his seminal Nightmare Movies book as Dario Argento's greatest work, his "masterpiece".
Empire review:
Defiantly
refusing to make narrative sense, this revolves around two evil houses -
one in Rome, one in New York - and the witch-like goddesses who haunt
them. A succession of unfortunate mortals become intrigued by the
mysteries surrounding the houses, and mainly come to bad ends in
sequences staged by Argento with all the imaginative flair of Busby
Berkeley dance routines. Argento
goes overboard with the vivid camera work, and anyone expecting a story
is doomed to extreme frustration. There is, surprisingly, an unusual
degree of cynical humour to the proceedings and the requisite collection
of blankly beautiful actresses. The kind of film that starts off with a
climax and builds to a plateau of surrealist delirium that, one way or
another, will have you shrieking.
Kim Newman
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