#The Inferno (1911)

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L'Inferno (1911)

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Freaky Facts: L'Inferno (1911)

(My Review) (My Screenshots)

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Dante's Inferno (1911) Directed by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan & Giuseppe De Liguoro

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SUMMARY: The poet Dante is lost in a dark and gloomy wood when he suddenly sees the light of salvation at the summit of a mountain. To reach the light, Dante must navigate his way through the Inferno before he makes his way to Paradise.

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DANTE'S INFERNO (1911)

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when dante's inferno (1911) was released in theaters do u think there were people who were like 'erm actually that didn't happen in the book' or

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when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers<3

Ooh, thank you! Let's see if I can figure out a way to pick some songs...

David Bowie: "Wishful Beginnings". I'm currently working on a Mirdania/Annatar fic and making a playlist for it, and this song is number one for... what I hope are obvious reasons. And then since I'm already in my youtube playlists, let's grab four more random songs!

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: "Weeping Song". This is from a playlist called "it's some songs", which is a collection of songs I like in no particular order, according to no other criteria. Basically if I find a cool song and it doesn't fit in any other playlist, it goes here. Also I need to keep track of this song in particular because sometimes people ask me, "Hey what are your cosplay plans for next dragoncon" and I have to say, "Okay so there's this music video in which Nick Cave is dressed as a priest in a rowboat in the middle of an expanse of water made out of what appears to be black garbage bags, drinking wine from a mug..."

From my Adar playlist (angry version): KMFDM: "Anarchy". Once again I hope the reasons are obvious as to why this song is on this playlist.

Irving Berlin: "Alexander's Ragtime Band", from the playlist "The Emperor", which is mostly classical and baroque, but I made an exception for this newfangled 1911 number.

And finally, JUST FOR YOU! From the playlist Feanor's Disco Inferno: Earth, KISS, and Fire: "I Was Made For Boogie Wonderland".

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What horror films do you think have the best practical effects? Which ones have the worst but are still fun?

I love practical effects so I really gave this one some thought! I’ll skip over the ultra-classics (The Thing, Alien) because they’ve already been talked up and for organization split this into 4 of my favorite eras: silent spectacle, midcentury monsters, splatter-action, and modern animation.

For me at least a lot of silent film effects are so pioneering that I’m wowed by the slightest thing they’re able to achieve, and the medium is also so necessarily visuals-focused that many of the true bombastic films are just showcases of incredible effects. I’d say your best options for seeing some truly impressive stuff are Dante’s Inferno (1911) (one of the first surviving feature films, so it really gets across exactly what they were capable of at the time), and Faust (1926), which goes all-out, creating a whole world of angels and demons.

The creature features of the 30s-60s were all about making fun new designs. I’d go for The Invisible Man (1933) for invisibility effects that impress to this day, and Black Sabbath (1963) for some terrifying puppet action.

Splatter-action movies can be a vehicle for some particularly flashy effects, and the 80s-90s were the peak of the craze. Here I’d recommend The Boxer’s Omen (1983) and Braindead (1992). In Boxer’s Omen, the effects are for a series of vibrant wizard duels, and in Braindead, for gallons and gallons of fake blood, sprayed full-force in every direction.

Some of the best practical effects I’ve seen in recent films have been in horror-animation- like silent films, these really allow the visuals to shine. The (mostly) stop-motion animated films The Wolf House (2018) and Mad God (2021) have been standouts.

As for horror with bad effects that I still enjoy- Any kind of safety or religious scare film. I’m thinking specifically of The Burning Hell (1974) and Think About This (1999). The ketchup blood is essential.

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Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the most extreme events of that extreme century, from the world wars and the Holocaust to the Cold War. Over a seven-decade career, he produced an important body of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including classics such as The Captive Mind, a reflection on the hypnotic power of ideology, and Native Realm, a memoir. In this book, Eva Hoffman, like Miłosz a Polish-born writer who immigrated to the West, presents an eloquent personal portrait of the life and work of her illustrious fellow exile.

Miłosz experienced the horrors of World War II in Warsaw—the very epicenter of the inferno—and witnessed the unfolding of the Holocaust from up close. After the war, he lived as a permanent exile—from Poland, communism, and mainstream American culture. Hoffman explores how exile, historical disasters, and Miłosz’s origins in Eastern Europe shaped his vision, and she occasionally compares her own postwar trajectory with Miłosz’s to show how the question of “the Other Europe” is still with us today. She also examines his later turn to the poetry of memory and loss, driven by the need to remember and honor his many friends and others killed in the Holocaust.

Combining incisive personal and critical insights, On Czesław Miłosz captures the essence of the life and work of a great poet and writer.

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In case anyone wants it, the olde 1911 silent film for Dante's Inferno by Francesco Bertolini who also did Homer's Odyssey is available for you all to watch.

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L'Inferno (1911)

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Dread by the Decade: L'Inferno

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★★★★

Plot: Dante is guided by the poet, Virgil, through Hell.

Review: The first feature length film in Italian history, this is a faithful adaptation rife with stunning technical feats and surrealism.

English Title: The Inferno Source Material: Inferno by Dante Alighieri Year: 1911 Genre: Occult, Dark Fantasy Country: Italy Language: Silent Runtime: 1 hour 11 minutes

Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe De Liguoro Writer: Dante Alighieri Cinematographer: Emilio Roncarolo Composer: Raffaele Caravaglios; Tangerine Dream Cast: Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Augusto Milla, Attilio Motta, Emilise Beretta

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Story: 4/5 - Great adaptation that sometimes suffers from meandering.

Performances: 3/5 - Papa and Pirovano do little beyond mime speech, but the damned are wonderfully dramatic.

Cinematography: 4/5 - Just stunning.

Music: 4/5 - Tangerine Dream’s official re-score is haunting, if a little repetitive.

Effects: 5/5 - Amazing! Forced perspective, puppets, wire work, and more create nightmarish replicas of Antonio Manetti’s illustrations.

Sets: 5/5 - Beautiful mix of real locations, matte paintings, and sets.

Costumes and Make-Up: 3.5/5

Trigger Warnings:

Violence and mild gore

Offensive depiction of the Prophet Muhammad

Suicide

Torture

Extreme Catholic ideology (ex: suicide and sex are sinful)

Nudity

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2- Dante’s Inferno (1911)

Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustave Doré.

L'Inferno is a March 10th, 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from Inferno, the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. L'Inferno took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film.

L'Inferno's depictions of Hell closely followed those in the engravings of Gustave Doré for an edition of the Divine Comedy.

As Dante's Divine Comedy places Muhammad in hell, the film also has a momentary unflattering depiction of Muhammad in its Hell sequence (his chest explodes, exposing his entrails).

The scenes from Hell from the film were reused in an American 1936 exploitation film, Hell-O-Vision and the 1944 race film Go Down, Death!. Some American state film censor boards required removal of the hell sequences from L'Inferno used in Go Down, Death!, such as one where a woman's bare breast is momentarily seen.

An international success, it grossed more than $2 million in the United States, where its length gave theater owners an excuse for raising ticket prices.

For many years, L'Inferno was largely unseen and only available in lower quality, incomplete copies.

In December 2023, Terror Vision Records & Video announced a release of the film on Blu-ray, featuring a new 4K restoration.

Personal Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

This film is so technically incredible for its time, a beautiful work of art :D

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Lucifer (actor Augusto Milla) gobbles up Judas Iscariot in the 1911 Italian film L'INFERNO, released in the USA as DANTE'S INFERNO.

As incredible as it may seem, INFERNO was apparently the first feature-length movie shown in America viewed in a single sitting. IMDB sez: "This is the first feature film to be shown in its entirety, in one screening, in the USA. Prior to this it was thought audiences wouldn't be prepared to sit for over an hour to watch a feature - films such as Les Misérables (1909)and The Life of Moses (1909) were shown in episodic parts over the course of a month or two."

Also of note: L'INFERNO is considered to be the first Italian, and oldest surviving, feature-length film. (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)

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Double Dog Dare You Chapter 3

Eric's POV

Eric stood next to the net, a bored expression permanently plastered onto his face. When he was promised a leadership job right out of initiation, he had grand hopes of sitting in some gilded office, holding secret meetings and making high level decisions. Guess that was the Erudite in him. He sure as hell wasn't expecting to have to babysit a bunch of snot-nosed kids (sure, they were only a year younger than him, but who's counting?) and writing a bunch of cringe ass names on a chalkboard. Seriously, these soon-to-be-Dauntless kids were so uncreative. Wow, another Inferno. Great, not like we don't have five thousand of those running around this faction.

Eric watched with the same boredom as a girl in a Candor outfit fell into the net with her eyes shut. Here comes our second jumper. God, somebody put a .38 to his head already. "What's your name, initiate," Eric asked, fighting the urge to yawn.

The fact that she took a minute to think meant she was going to be picking yet another stupid ass "courageous" Dauntless name. Great. Yet another beacon of originality for this faction.

"Ariel. My name is Ariel." Seriously? Like the little fucking mermaid? That's not even badass. Also she wasn't even a redhead. "That's a stupid name," he scoffed, partly for the release of letting his increasingly more intrusive thoughts win, and partly because Eric was a massive sadist (and owned it!) who took great pleasure in putting others down.

"Really? What's your name? I bet it's so much better." Damn, bitter much? Eric must have really struck a nerve with that one. Nice. "Eric," he replied, leaning in. "You'd better remember that name because I am personally going to ensure that your new life here is a living hell."

"Eric?" she asked curiously.

"Hm?" he replied, pleased by the more subservient change in her demeanor.

"You'd better remember to use some Tic-Tacs next time," she smirked. Excuse her? What the fuck did she just say to him? Oh no. Hell no. No no no. He could verbally beat people up but he was a Dauntless leader and this little bitch was not about to disrespect him. Uh uh.

"You're going to regret ever opening your mouth, initiate" he threatened, getting as close to her as he could while the members behind him restrained him from actually touching her. He made a mental note to fire them later.

As soon as he had finished that sentence, she brought up a can of something and sprayed it into his open mouth. Minty. Wintermint, perhaps? Well, she'd be begging for winter when he sent her down to the fiery depths of hell where she belonged.

After showing the rowdy bunch of ragtag miscreants to their dorm rooms, Eric couldn't give less of a shit about being the next Dauntless HGTV rep and giving them some grand damn tour of the place, so he led them straight to the training room.

He needed to blow off some steam, so he grabbed his favorite Rock Island 1911 and began to show them some basic shooting stances. He fired off a few rounds, all of which hit the center of the bullseye, of course. Eric was practically the Annie Oakley of Dauntless and he took great pride in that fact.

He walked around the room observing the initiates as they pitifully attempted to handle a loaded gun for the first time, thankful yet also somewhat disappointed that no one had managed to blow off a body part just yet.

Then he got over to that mermaid bitch, observing the holes in the outer rings of her target. "Figures you wouldn't be able to get anything right on your first day," Eric sneered, towering over her to intimidate her. "Here," he said, roughly shoving her limbs into position, grateful for the opportunity, however slim, to pull that smart-mouthed bitch apart without some tight-ass security guard holding him back.

"A thank you seems to be in order, initiate," Eric toyed with her. She took a deep breath as he smirked. Finally this bitch was learning. "Eric, go to hell."

Ha. Ha. Ha fucking ha. Oh wow she should be doing stand up at the Apollo. God, she was just the next fucking Robin Williams wasn't she?

He grabbed her arm and yanked her over to the ring. Let's see how funny she was when he was pummeling a fist into her mouth.

He announced the fight to the rest of the audience, taking great joy at their fearful expressions. Ah, if only he had riled the same anxiety out of her. But no matter. All in due time. He just needed to show her that he could beat the living shit out of her in 10 seconds flat. Then the fear would come.

He sent some very powerful punches her way, but her lithe body enabled her to have quick reflexes such that she managed to dodge all of them. Eric was growing increasingly frustrated, until he had a nice little haymaker in line to make a perfect beeline to her temple. Bingo.

He felt her hand grab his wrist and in the next instance he was lying flat on his back, staring up at the ceiling trying not to groan at the throbbing pain in his head. Well she wasn't the only one with some tricks up her sleeve.

Eric kicked up at her and jumped up to his feet again. He tackled her to the ground and jabbed her in the ribs. He was absolutely going to win this fight, but he had to admit, no one in Dauntless, male or female, initiate or member, had ever lasted that long in a round against him. Had Eric been a stronger man, he would have tamped down the erection that thought gave him, but as this fight seemed to be demonstrating, Eric was a very, very weak man.

"This fight isn't nearly over," he whispered, trying to reclaim his fragile masculinity. She gave him a smile that make his southern friend expand while she leaned in as if she were going to kiss him. Eric couldn't help but hold his breath in anticipation. A woman who could almost (almost being the key word) kick his ass and also wanted to fuck him? Hell yes. He needed a good lay, and Eric never told anyone, but he loved fighting as a form of foreplay.

"Eric," she whispered in a breathy voice that gave him a quick vision of what their night would be like, "go to hell."

Eric lie flat on his back. Unbelievable. Well, it certainly took long enough. Finally, he had a real challenge.