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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Kazanian who drowns a few cats out of mere annoyance and immediately afterwards ends up in turn eaten by rats and stabbed to death simultaneously. Also Carol who was in cahoots with the coven if not a member herself and ended up burned to death.]]
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** Also [[spoiler: Carol whowas is in cahoots with the coven if not a member herself and ended ends up burned to death.]]
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* CatsAreMean: Inferno has one of the most prominent examples of cats being threats to men in film. It starts with them intruding into Kazanian's property and pestering the elderly antique shop owner but it gets much worse whenn [[spoiler:a clowder of them attacks Countess Elise when she ventures into a secret corridor of the building and keep her trapped there until the masked assailant catches up with her. Subverted however once the viewers put the pieces of the puzzle together and it becomes clear that the cats don't act on their own agency but have their siple minds clouded by the darkness of Mater Tenebrarum. As all animals can, which is confirmed by the rat attack on Kazanian.]]
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* CatsAreMean: Easily one of the most unintentionally hilarious examples ever comitted to film. The cats hound Kazanian, the elderly antique shop owner, so much so the man kills one of them, and [[spoiler:a clowder of them attacks Countess Elise when she ventures into a secret corridor of the building.]]
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* CatsAreMean: Easily Inferno has one of the most unintentionally hilarious prominent examples ever comitted of cats being threats to men in film. The cats hound Kazanian, It starts with them intruding into Kazanian's property and pestering the elderly antique shop owner, so owner but it gets much so the man kills one of them, and worse whenn [[spoiler:a clowder of them attacks Countess Elise when she ventures into a secret corridor of the building.building and keep her trapped there until the masked assailant catches up with her. Subverted however once the viewers put the pieces of the puzzle together and it becomes clear that the cats don't act on their own agency but have their siple minds clouded by the darkness of Mater Tenebrarum. As all animals can, which is confirmed by the rat attack on Kazanian.]]
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* CatsAreMean: Easily one of the most unintentionally hilarious examples ever comitted to film. The cats hound Kazanian, the elderly antique shop, shop owner, so much so the man kills one of them, and [[spoiler:a clowder of them attacks Countess Elise when she ventures into a secret corridor of the building.]]
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* IronicLastWords: [[spoiler:Varelli[=/=]the old man in the wheelchair]] tells Mark he built the houses for the Three Mothers (as revealed earlier in the film, one in Freiburg, Germany; another in New York, and the third one in Rome, Italy), and "buried himself" in the New York manor. Of course, he meant it metaphorically, but [[spoiler:he dies asfixiated by a cord and his body burns as the whole manor catches on fire in the climax.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: As soon as she realizes Mark managed to escape the burning apartment building, Mater Tenebrarum lets out a furious scream as everything around her burns not caring about the debris falling around her and eventually killing her.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: As soon as she realizes Mark managed to escape the burning apartment building, Mater Tenebrarum lets out a furious scream as everything around her burns not caring about the debris falling around her and eventually presumably killing her.]]
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* DeathByMaterialism: [[spoiler: Elise's butler and the woman concièrge rejoice that Countess Elise has gone missing, but has left her jewels and money. She tells the butler to make a false phone call to Elise's husband, so they could throw him off their backs. This actually leads to both their deaths.]]
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* CreepyBasement: According to the "Three Mothers" book, the "second key" to the secret of the mothers lies in the basement of their lairs. With the words ringing in her ears, Rose decides to look into it and goes down the basement of her apartment building: there are at least two stories of basement, [[spoiler: plus a flooded sub-basement where Tenebrarum's portrait is hanging on the wall, along with some floating decomposed corpses.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: As soon as she realizes Mark managed to escape the burning apartment building, Mater Tenebrarum lets out a furious scream as everything around her burns not caring about the debris falling around her and eventually killing her.]]
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The film is titled ''Inferno'', a word that means 'a raging, uncontrollable fire'. [[spoiler: Guess what happens in the climactic sequence?]]
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* NumerologicalMotif: The giant, hotel-like apartment building in New York where Rose lives is numbered 49. Likewise, in Italy, after Sara (Mark's college mate) reads Rose's letter to him, she asks a taxi driver to go to Via dei Bagni, 49 (a public access library). [[spoiler:In both locations, there is a "sickly sweet smell" in the ait, indicating these are places connected to the Three Mothers.]]
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* NumerologicalMotif: The giant, hotel-like apartment building in New York where Rose lives is numbered 49. Likewise, in Italy, after Sara (Mark's college mate) reads Rose's letter to him, she asks a taxi driver to go to Via dei Bagni, 49 (a public access library). [[spoiler:In both locations, there is a "sickly sweet smell" in the ait, air, indicating these are places connected to the Three Mothers.]]
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* NumerologicalMotif: The giant, hotel-like apartment building in New York where Rose lives is numbered 49. Likewise, in Italy, after Sara (Mark's college mate) reads Rose's letter to him, she asks a taxi driver to go to Via dei Bagni, 49 (a public access library). [[spoiler:In both locations, there is a "sickly sweet smell" in the ait, indicating these are places connected to the Three Mothers.]]
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* CreepyLongFingers: Some of the killings are done by an assailant with long, almost skeletal fingers.
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* DarkIsEvil: Again, the man threat is one of three evil witches, all equally wicked. The witch's name is even "Mother of '''Darkness'''" (or "Mother of '''Shadows'''").
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* RuleOfThree: The "Three Mothers" book states that the titular Three Mothers are also three sisters, replicating iconic trinities of culture, like the Three Fates and Three Graces.
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* TheFaceless: In contrast to ''Suspiria'', where [[spoiler: the entire faculty belongs to the coven]], the faces of Tenebrarum's coven and servants are appropriately masked by shadow at all times.
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* EvilTaintedThePlace: According to "The Three Mothers" book, the location of the Mothers' lair will eventually suck the life out of the land and nearby areas will "reek horribly".
* TheFaceless: In contrast to ''Suspiria'', where [[spoiler: the entire faculty belongs to the coven]], the faces of Tenebrarum's coven and servants are appropriately masked by shadow at all times.
* TheFaceless: In contrast to ''Suspiria'', where [[spoiler: the entire faculty belongs to the coven]], the faces of Tenebrarum's coven and servants are appropriately masked by shadow at all times.
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* ApartmentComplexOfHorrors: The film mostly happens in a lush, vintage castle-like building in New York. Beneath its grand appearance, lies a labyrinth of decayed corridors, decrepit passages, [[spoiler: secret crawlspaces and the basement lair of an ages-old witch named Mater Tenebrarum.]]
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* PinballProtagonist: Played straight, but arguably proof that [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]]. [[spoiler: Mark]] survived and may have played a role in the death of Mater Tenebrarum, but even at the end has little more than faint hints as to what happened.
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* PinballProtagonist: Played straight, but arguably proof that [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]]. [[spoiler: Mark]] survived and may have played a role in the death of Mater Tenebrarum, but even at the end has little more than faint hints as to what happened. As shown in a pre-climax dialogue:
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--> '''Mark:''' No, I don't...
-->'''[[spoiler:Varelli[=/=]Old Man on a Wheelchair]]:''' Now, I suppose, you know who I am...
--> '''Mark:''' No, I don't...
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* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:At the very end of the film, Mater Tenebrarum becomes a giant skeleton (like the incarnation of Death) and stands amidst the fires burning the apartment building. She then utters a scream and disappears.]]
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* TheHecateSisters: The Three Mothers. Two of them appear in the film: Tenebrarum (the main villain), said to be "the youngest and cruelest" of the three, and Lachrymarum (the Italian student with the intense gaze). Also, more of their mythos is revealed.
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** Tenebrarum (the main villain), said to be "the youngest and cruelest" of thethree, and three;
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind:[[spoiler:The kind nurse and her unassuming elderly patient in the wheelchair? Respectively, Mater Tenebrarum, one of the villainous Three Mothers, and Varelli, the architect who designed their houses/lairs.]]
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind:[[spoiler:The TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:The kind nurse and her unassuming elderly patient in the wheelchair? Respectively, Mater Tenebrarum, one of the villainous Three Mothers, and Varelli, the architect who designed their houses/lairs.]]
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** [[spoiler:Rose]] buys a book called "The Three Mothers" from a nearby antique shop, who reveals that the apartment building she lives in may be the lair of an ages-old witch.
** [[spoiler:Sara]] reads Rose's letter to Mark and decides to investigate into Lachrymarum and the other mothers. As she approaches her destination, a library, she notices a "sickly sweet smell" in the air. [[spoiler:As the "Three Mothers" book states, this is a sign of the presence of the Mothers.]]
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* BigBad: Mater Tenebrarum [[spoiler: who is disguised as the nurse]]
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A 1980 Italian horror film by Creator/DarioArgento, not to be confused with [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's poem]] or the [[Literature/DanBrownsInferno novel and film of the same name]].
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A 1980 Italian horror film by Creator/DarioArgento, not to be confused with [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's poem]] or the [[Literature/DanBrownsInferno [[Literature/{{Inferno|2013}} novel and film of the same name]].
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Very soon now, everything around you will become dark, and someone will take your hand."'']]
A 1980 Italian horror film by Creator/DarioArgento, not to be confused with [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's poem]] or the [[Literature/DanBrownsInferno novel and film of the same name]].
Rose Elliot, a poetess living in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, purchases a book from a local antiques dealer. Written by an alchemist known as Varelli, the book explains how the author was commissioned by three evil (and very powerful) witches to construct stately mansions for them, from which they rule over the world with insanity, grief and despair. Realizing that the apartment she now resides in might be the home of Mater Tenebrarum, the Mother of Darkness, Rose writes to her brother Mark, currently studying music in UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, to warn him of her fears.
Mark returns to New York, and finds that Rose has vanished. Taking up residence in her apartment, Mark tries to piece together the whereabouts of his sister, only to discover that her initial fears were horribly correct.
The second film in a loose trilogy (between ''Film/{{Suspiria|1977}}'' and ''Film/MotherOfTears''), in terms of storytelling ''Inferno'' is the most alien of the three. While ''Suspiria'' walked a thin line between murder mystery and surreal horror, ''Inferno'' dispenses with any sort of narrative structure, instead running on a dream logic that makes no concessions to reality.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* AlienGeometries: The far out architecture of Rose's apartment (to say nothing of the [[Film/Suspiria1977 Tanz Akademie]] or the [[Film/MotherOfTears Palazzo Varelli]]) makes more sense when you realize it was designed by a medieval alchemist.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Kazanian who drowns a few cats out of mere annoyance and immediately afterwards ends up in turn eaten by rats and stabbed to death simultaneously. Also Carol who was in cahoots with the coven if not a member herself and ended up burned to death.]]
* BigBad: Mater Tenebrarum [[spoiler: who is disguised as the nurse]]
* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: Subverted, though it's implied not for lack of trying.]]
* CallBack: [[spoiler: When the apartment building begins to burn, Mater Tenebrarum cryptically says it's happening "Just like before." This may refer to the destruction of the Tanz Akademie in ''Film/Suspiria1977''.]]
* CatsAreMean: Easily one of the most unintentionally hilarious examples ever comitted to film.
* TheCruella: Kazanian, although considering events earlier in the film, he may be somewhat justified.
* DecoyProtagonist: Several. [[spoiler: Rose, Sara, and Elise are all protagonists till they get killed one by one. Finally, Mark turns out to be the true protagonist but he himself does not do much to advance the story.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Mater Lachrymarum,]] who serves as the main antagonist in [[spoiler: ''Film/MotherOfTears'']], makes a brief appearance in this film, although played by a different actress.
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler: Kazanian by rats.]]
* EncyclopediaExposita: ''The Three Mothers'', by E. Varelli.
* TheFaceless: In contrast to ''Suspiria'', where [[spoiler: the entire faculty belongs to the coven]], the faces of Tenebrarum's coven and servants are appropriately masked by shadow at all times.
* FailureHero: Unlike Suzy in ''Suspiria'', Mark had done nothing to contribute to the villains's defeat. Tenebrarum died in the fire that she had unintentionally caused on her own through one of her murders.
* GainaxEnding: More "Gainax Entire Film." Between the insane colors and architecture, good luck figuring out what's happening at any given time. It does, however, look very cool.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mater Tenebrarum does an excellent job of killing off the would-be heroes, but also manages to [[spoiler: off herself by her tendency to sadistic overkill (Specifically, her insistence on killing off a couple of mildly rebellious underlings causes the fire that consumes the apartment building, to which her survival is tied)]].
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Why Sara, Rose, and Elise are all killed.]]
* HellHotel: Apartment, but the principal is the same.
* TheHecateSisters: The Three Mothers.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Elise's butler and Carol the caretaker are glad that she is gone because they can steal her belongings. Carol even implies that she knows and is allied with Elise's killers. The butler has his eyes gouged out (but still attached to the nerves), and Carol accidentally starts the fire which destroys the building. In her attempt to put the flames out, she gets tangled in curtains, set on fire, and then stumbles out a window and falls several stories to her death.]]
* OffWithHisHead: Subverted. [[spoiler: Rose is nearly decapitated by a large pane of glass, only it doesn't completely sever her head from her body. Instead, it's repeatedly slammed into her neck harder and harder, cutting deeper through until she finally dies.]]
* PinballProtagonist: Played straight, but arguably proof that [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]]. [[spoiler: Mark]] survived and may have played a role in the death of Mater Tenebrarum, but even at the end has little more than faint hints as to what happened.
* PopStarComposer: [[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer Keith Emerson]] wrote the music.
* SceneryPorn: Much like ''Suspiria'', this is a stunning film with a great score by Keith Emerson.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Perhaps the best music for sneaking around the BigBad's lair isn't bombastic OminousLatinChanting set to synthesized and up-tempo organ. However, it makes sense in terms of being a key component to support Argento's visual aesthetic.
* SwarmOfRats: [[spoiler: Kazanian encounters these after drowning a sackful of cats. Just desserts, perhaps.]]
* ThematicSeries: The second part of the Three Mothers Trilogy with ''Susperia'' and ''Mother of Tears''.
* {{Video Nast|ies}}y: Was placed on the list in 1984, was dropped just a year later, and was released uncut in 2010.
* WalkOnWater: After Kazanian falls into the Central Park Lake and is attacked by rats, a hotdog vendor brandishing a knife runs across the lake and finishes him off.
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