Inferno (1980) on Netflix
Rose Elliot finds a book about three evil sisters and suspects her New York apartment building is one of their homes. She asks her brother Mark, studying music in Rome, to visit.
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Plot summary
Rose Elliot lives alone in New York City, where she writes poetry. An ancient book she comes across, The Three Mothers, is credited to an alchemist called Varelli and describes three evil sisters who govern the world through sorrow, tears and darkness, each in a home he built for her. One sister belongs to Freiburg, one to Rome, one to New York. Rose comes to believe her own apartment building is one of those homes, and she writes to Mark, her brother, who is studying music in Rome, asking him to visit. With the book as her guide, she goes down to the cellar and finds a hole in the floor, which opens onto a flooded ballroom.
Cast
- James Fleetwoodas Cook
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Inferno (1980)
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- During production, director Dario Argento was stricken with a severe case of hepatitis and had to direct some sequences while lying on his back; once the illness became so painful that he was hospitalized, filming was restricted to second unit work, some of it done by his mentor Mario Bava.
- Argento's mentor Mario Bava built some of the film's cityscape views as tabletop skyscrapers out of milk cartons covered with photographs, and the apartment building set, only a few floors high, was augmented with a small sculpture of his that was set aflame to serve as the burning building in the climax.
- The fiery final sequence was shot without a stunt double because the stuntman hired for the job had broken his leg; after principal photography ended, producer Claudio Argento asked Leigh McCloskey to perform the stunts himself, assuring the actor it would be "absolutely safe".
- Argento tasked Keith Emerson with including "Va, pensiero" in his soundtrack; Emerson re-orchestrated it in five-four time to mimic a "fast and bumpy" taxi ride through Rome, and Argento did not initially recognize the remix when he reviewed the composer's progress.
