Inferno
20th Century Fox | Release Date: April 2, 1980 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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100
EmpireKim Newman
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. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
For all its nonsensical qualities, it also contains some of Argento's most hallucinatory images and unforgettable setpieces, as always reason enough to watch even when the usual reasons are nowhere to be found. Read full review
80
BBCAlmar Haflidason
There are some outstanding sequences in this movie that are truly chilling Read full review
75
Slant MagazineEd Gonzalez
Dario Argento undervalues his material, but his set pieces are glorious enough that the film’s plot contrivances can be forgiven. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The writing is clumsy, with information packed crudely into the dialogue, and his attention to the performances is inversely proportional to his attention to style. Yet his “New York” has an eerie, deserted, otherworldly quality—much as Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut would later—and some of the individual setpieces are spectacularly vibrant. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Although not as powerful, impressive, or exciting as Suspiria, Inferno is still intriguing, effective, and stylish enough to make the narrative unimportant. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNina Darnton
The movie's distinguishing feature is not the number or variety of horrible murders, but the length of time it takes for the victims to die. This is a technique that may have been borrowed from Italian opera, but without the music, it loses some of its panache. Read full review
40
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
A much more conventional and unexciting piece of work. Read full review
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