 Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review. This is for the 1980 Dario Argento film Inferno This was actually the second installment in his three mothers film trilogy I guess which spanned a lot of time to be honest the first one was Suspiria the second one was this Inferno and the third one was mother of tears and Release dates for those were 1977 for Suspiria 1980 for Inferno and 2007 for mother of tears so pretty spread out for those. I mean obviously from 1977 1980 was not very far. That was just a three-year span, but then 1980 to 2007 Large span of time. So I've not heard many Very good things about mother of tears. Obviously people love Suspiria And there are a lot of people who really like Inferno apparently when Inferno originally came out This film was did not do all that well. It was not highly regarded or anything But over time it's kind of gained steam a lot of people have looked at it in a very different light And it's considered to be one of Argento's masterpieces apparently So this is actually my first viewing of it. So I'll let you know what I think and when this video is being recorded It's actually streaming on the shutter streaming service. So awesome also Deep Red is on there at the moment and Well phenomena in Tenebrae were on there, but I think they may have cycled off Because I actually tried to watch phenomena, but it's this weird thing We're like the icon for it is still there and it shows up as being available But it's not actually there because if you like search it it doesn't come up But if it was in your save list, it is still there as an icon. So anyway, I Really like the concept of this trilogy. It's about witches. That's not really a spoiler. Everyone knows that it's about witches That so there's one in each of the films and they all do tie together because it's the concept of these three witches who kind of rule the world so It's it's different. I Guess running in running's in with these witches in throughout these films and Inferno I think does overall a pretty good job of keeping that going I will say though that I think I Think it's like a Light it's very light on the actual plot and story in this film And it relies way more heavily on visuals as well as kind of like the journey of people kind trying The kind of trying to figure out what is going on? Who is this witch? What is it? You know what's happening here? And it's kind of giallo ish because there is kind of like a gloved killer in it But at the same time it's not very giallo because the focus is you know one of the three mothers So like it's a little giallo ish, but it's not really technically giallo. I don't think I don't know how it's like technically Categorized, but I would not categorize it as actual giallo. It's just got a little bit of it to it So much like with a lot of giallo films The story is kind of light if you just played it straight just the story you'd be like that's not all that interesting that's not that great and that's kind of at play here, but the the like I said the great part of it and what holds your interest is the visuals are outstanding and Just the journey that people go through all the Investigating that they do and the settings that they're in is a lot of fun Argento has a really good Feel for keeping interesting things in the film You know in either like setting wise or in the background or with lighting how he does that or You know just a little kind of like small plot devices, so It's always a joy to watch a Argento film from a visual standpoint But the story typically is a little you know, it's not like the best When you really think about it so but overall movie experience good so Do-do-do-do So one of the things I did talk about was the lighting I really love his use of colors how he plays around with colors and very early in the film He uses a lot of pink and blue actually as a combination and it just looks beautiful. It looks amazing He uses some red in there uses some green in there Just a lot of colors just kind of like showing up Which really helps things pop on the screen and it makes it look very artsy it like I said It's just visually pleasing. You just can't stop looking at it It looks outstanding and that's one of the biggest things in my opinion to draw people into watching our Gento films Or at least for me personally is that I want to watch it for the visuals. I think it looks beautiful It holds up in that way Another thing he did just for you know getting things to pop on the screen color-wise is using like a red paint for blood It doesn't look realistic and actually a lot of Italian horror films were doing this They were using that to make like the redness of the blood pop a lot more on the screen and for that reason it definitely works It looks more visually appealing. You can really see it standing out in the environment But it just doesn't hold up from the from the angle of doesn't look like actual blood It does not it actually looks kind of like over the top and cartoonish Which honestly if you just keep in mind the time period and that it was you know red paint then It's fine Yeah, just the lighting is so good in addition to the actual color usage that I really like He has an interesting way of lighting things so that like certain things are in the dark and certain things are in the light And it creates these interesting patterns of light versus dark once again, just very cool to look at and Usually with characters they always have just like this little bit of like a window of light on their face And then like a lot of the stuff behind them is dark and it just looks cool It's it's a very interesting engaging visual. So I really like the way he plays with light There's some fun underwater scenes in this it's mainly just in the beginning of it Which I really like because you don't see that very much in film Especially not an older film like that and underwater shot scenes can look very very cool because of the weightlessness There's there's a certain beauty to the way that they that they play out on screen for that reason That's everything's just kind of like floating The only thing I didn't like about the underwater portions was that the audio that they put in after the fact of like, you know Kind of like slow movement in water and like bubbles Gets a little annoying because it's very repetitive and it's kind of I don't want to say shrill, but it's a little Grading to your ear and so that kind of bothered me throughout it But but like I said looked really good. It's really cool Plus just barely anyone's doing that. So it's like a fun interesting take on things Oh I wrote down that watching this movie nowadays a lot of the sets actually look like sets Like it looks like it was a built set for the film And and that's just kind of one of the problems with like older films in general when you watch them 60 70s Sometimes even 80s at this point like the sets look a little cheap ish like they look like someone constructed this just for this film and Yeah, they they look like sets, but you know can't really do much about that It's a sign of the times and a lot of film just doesn't hold up over time because things get better and better and better as We go and acting is another one which you know, that's a play in this film That's a hit at play in a lot of older films that the acting's just not gonna be nearly as good because acting as an art Form has progressed a ton since the 70s I mean a ton since the 80s a ton since the 90s acting every decade that goes by acting is at the best It's ever been at pretty much The music in this there are some portions of music that work really well and some portions of music that sound really cool But I think overall to me it just kind of like it felt all over the place It didn't feel cohesive at all It was just like changing different styles and different sounds and while that can be fun from a soundtrack aspect And actually like listening to the soundtrack of this film without watching the film would probably be kind of cool It's when it's put to the film. It feels a little weird It kind of like messes with pacing and you're just kind of like this clashes. This is weird like it's It feels schizophrenic. It's just like all over the place and I'm just like oh Dory talked about the red paint Okay, so how I was saying that Argento always finds these interesting shots. I'm sure it's not always just Argento I do have to give some credit at least in this instance to Romano Albany Who was the cinematographer for this film? He also did cinematography with a lot of other Italian films so Good eye great shot Great shot setup just really good stuff and the framing the camera work in the framing for this film look it looks really really good The ambiance is creepy and it's pretty much creepy the entire way through there's a lot of darkness used and like I was saying when there is light It's not total light. It's just like little pockets of light which maintains creepiness throughout the film Overall the ambiance ambience in this was very awesome. They set up a really good environment that keeps things dark It keeps things creepy. It keeps you kind of on edge like anything could happen at any time Yeah, that's cool There's some pretty violent violent death scenes in this and some they're pretty gruesome Obviously the practical effects don't really hold up nowadays, but if you think 1970s or I'm sorry This was in 1980, but still basically you just got out of the 70s So think 1970s as far as the practical effects go and you'll you'll be more forgiving you'll understand but for that time these were probably very kind of Cutting-edge gruesome violent death scenes and some of them I think are still effective So those were good. I like the cool little visual touches with Not just the interesting lighting, but also he was doing some cool things where he'll focus on much smaller things or like Here's a prime example of something that really caught my eye was there's a door being locked at one point Excuse me allergies there's a door being locked at one point and instead of showing like the outside lock like moving what it did is it was a Shot of like a cross-section of an actual lock like the internal portion of it Showing it engaging the locking mechanism and I think that was really cool because it's something that people don't see you all that often It just was super super interesting. Let me fix this lighting. There we go. It's just super interesting to see stuff like that It's just a different take on showing you something that's shown in films Time and again, but he's saying, you know, yes, you know this door is locking But let me show you a different way of getting that through to you and it's just more interesting because how often do you see the Internal mechanisms of a lock, especially in a film. I just like that a lot Like I said, the the the story is actually pretty light with this So a lot of it's in the visuals of a lot of it's in the journey of Investigation and discovering what's going on the set design has a huge thing has a huge portion of the interest in this film Okay, let me get to the three main big complaints that I have with this film One of those big complaints is that it does seem too long. I think it's like an hour and 40 some minutes or something like that It keeps you engaged But there are these moments where it's just kind of stretching a little too far with people doing kind of stupid mundane uninteresting things and I think that they really should shorten a bunch of that to make it move a little bit quicker because there are Definitely times where you're like Okay, we're still doing this and we haven't gotten there yet And that's just one of the things I think from a horror genre perspective people are more used to Horror films being around like an hour and a half or so and so when they start going past that they have to be super super Engaging and super amazing in order for people to be more forgiving with that runtime And this doesn't fit that mold of being like oh my god It's such an amazing film because like I said the story is so light So for that reason, I can't really forgive the length. So it should be cut down a little bit there are some audio issues with this and That is that you know one character will be talking and their audio is totally fine then another character will talk and their audio is way low and you can't even hear them and You can't just keep adjusting because then you're gonna have this issue where you can hear the lope the low talking person Just fine and then when the other person talks it like blasts your eardrums out So that's one of my other big issues audio level Definitely a problem and then probably one of my bigger things and and some people don't have this issue But some people do there's some excessive animal cruelty in the film, which I'm not opposed to having in film The idea of scenes with animal cruelty, but the problem is back in this time They were using actual animals in the film nowadays You can use CGI and if it's like CGI animal cruelty no problem I don't care if that's fine. Go ahead and do it because for me. It's not the idea of it for me It's the idea that it's the actuality of you use actual animals in this film and you You know you may not have killed these animals necessarily although there is at least one that got killed in in this film But you can't you don't necessarily hurt them or kill them But the problem is they don't want to do this. It's 100% against their will I mean do what you want with the actors because they're actually getting paid and they're consenting to being in this film because it can help Build their career. They're getting money for it Like they're actually getting something out of it But when you have an actual animals involved in film they are doing it against their will They're like always doing it against their will they get nothing out of it And it's solely for the filmmakers and so for that reason I don't condone having animal cruelty or using animals and actual animals in film unless you're just kind of shooting them in their natural environment Or shooting them doing things that they like, you know Like there were some scenes kind of early on in the film where there's some cats hanging out in an alleyway And you can tell that they had just kind of given them something to eat So they were just kind of like hanging out in specific spots and just like licking the floor. That's fine That that's totally fine because they're getting something out of it. You know the cats are eating cats love to eat You know so something like that's fine just bringing them in sitting them down and giving them something to eat Not a problem, but there's there's some portions where they're they're like throwing cats and There's other stuff too, but it's just I have a problem with that and that's my reasoning for it I know there are some people the usual argument is it's a depiction of cruelty to animals and that makes me offended That's not me like I said if it's like CGI or it's practical effects animals and it's cruelty Fine, especially if it's part of the film, but with this film It's actual animals and it's not part of like it doesn't have to be part of the film There's not a real reason to have it in that a real reason to have it in the film Because it didn't play like a real legitimate part it actually kind of seemed out of place in my opinion I was just like I don't get this so anyway, but those are my big issues with the film But overall, I mean, I think I enjoyed it like I said once again I've said it numerous times now the story is light But I do like the idea once again of these three films that kind of have this shared universe in a sense and not many people do which movies Haven't you know over? Decades not many people have done which movies pretty much no one's doing them now. There are a few here and there, but Okay, so anyway my star rating out of five stars with half stars in play I'm gonna give it a three and a half Yeah, I like it mainly for the visuals, but Yeah, and and I would recommend it to people if they want to check it out But you know just be warned about the animal cruelty thing because I know that is a big trigger point for a lot of people So anyway, thanks everyone for checking this out Please hit that subscribe can really help me out a lot and it literally takes you about a second It is painless, but it can do a lot for me and I appreciate that That's the way you show me that you like what I'm doing Or like even one video that I did put some comments down there What are your thoughts on inferno? And if you haven't seen it are you gonna check it out now and then you can give likes if you want to do that You don't have to anyway. Thanks for checking this out. 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