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(1980)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Rose's shirt gets soaked and becomes completely transparent, clearly revealing her bare breasts and nipples for a very long time. She has very dark brown nipples so they are still clearly visible through her shirt even after it starts to dry.
  • Rose swims underwater for a very long time. Her skirt rides up repeatedly, showing her panties. At the same time her blouse and undergarment becomes clingy/transparent showing her breasts very clearly.

Violence & Gore

  • A man's corpse is found with its eyes gouged out. Very bloody, but notably fake-looking.
  • A woman is stabbed in the spine with a knife. Blood is seen pouring out as she tries to crawl away. Her body is discovered drenched in blood later.
  • A woman accidentally pulls down a curtain that is engulfed in flames onto herself. She screams and flails around, before falling out of a window and through a glass roof. Her body is seen later, but it's hard to see any details.
  • A man is choked by a cord and struggles (not graphic)
  • Like all Dario Argento films, the blood is stylized. It is hyper saturated in color and splatters unrealistically.
  • A woman finds a corpse underwater, it bumps into her several times, it's face and limbs are rotting showing red skeleton/muscles.
  • A man is stabbed through the neck with a knife, with very bloody results. He gasps for air and clings to another character smearing blood.
  • A woman is briefly see being hung.
  • A woman's hand is cut on a broken doorknob. Some blood is shown. She puts a bloody handprint on a curtain.
  • A woman is guillotined, blood splatters on the walls and the blade is shown stuck halfway in her neck.
  • In comparison to Dario Argento's other films such as "Tenebre" and "Opera", Inferno, although still very graphic, is slightly less intense and realistic.
  • A woman is scratched and bitten by several cats all at once, before she is stabbed offscreen.
  • A man grabs an actual cat by its scruff and slams its head into a chair. Although it is unknown if the cat was actually hurt, it is unlikely since the slam is done in a separate camera shot, and done in a closeup. Additionally, the same live cat is seen in a burlap sack completely unharmed. Later, he throws the sack into a river. This scene may be very upsetting for animal lovers.
  • A man falls into a river and is almost eaten alive by rats. Then, a man runs over towards him and hacks his neck apart with a knife. A very drawn out and violent scene.

Profanity

  • Some mild profanity.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man is drugged when he drinks what he believes to be heart medicine, and is then knocked unconscious.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Like Inferno's predecessor (Suspiria), the production design and lighting are done in an unconventional way, being very abstract and vibrant in color, which contributes to the film's sense of fear.
  • There are onscreen depictions of animal cruelty/violence. A cat eats a live mouse, ants are killed with poison, rats are thrown into water, and a cat is bashed against a chair. Some scenes are clearly real, whereas some (like the cat who is bludgeoned) are more ambiguous. It is unknown if this scene is real or fake.

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