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Rose, a young woman living in New York, discovers a book that foretells of three buildings spread across Rome, New York City and the Black Forest in Germany, which play host to covens of witches. These witches have supposedly spread terror across the globe for centuries. Convinced that she may be residing in one of these buildings, Rose writes to her brother in Rome asking for help – but murder and mayhem quickly begin to follow them both.

The second in Dario Argento's loosely connected 'Three Mothers' trilogy (beginning with Suspiria and concluding with 2007's The Mother of Tears), Inferno is a surreal and delectably colourful nightmare. The director's singularly vibrant screen aesthetic still has few equals, and Argento's mentor Mario Bava was even brought in to handle some of the mind-bending special effects. Upon its completion, the film suffered from a belated and messy release in America and largely negative reviews, but its reputation has been restored in the intervening decades and it is now regularly heralded as one of Argento's greatest feats.

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