Supposedly an important and trendsetting film in the history of cinema. Dante's Inferno based on Dante's The Divine Comedy is a chore to sit through even with a Tangerine Dream score ladled over the film to try to make it accessible to contemporary audiences.
The film seems to be about 2 guys wandering around hell or somewhere while title cards and I mean lots and lots of title cards blab on about about religion and what not.
The supposedly "cool" special effects are primitive optical effects which look interesting in stills but are not really that impressive to watch in the actual film. Even for a film made in 1911, the special effects can't really make up for what is a very static looking film.
Dante's Inferno is pretty much an endurance contest to sit through. No undiscovered silent classic here.
68 minutes.
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