Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno

🎞️ Movie 88 min US
โ˜… 6.6 /10 2007

Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victoria-era toy theater, Dante's Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical update of the original 14th century literary classic. Retold with the use of intricately hand-drawn paper puppets and miniature sets, and without the use of CGI effects, this unusual travelogue takes viewers on a tour of hell. And what we find there, looks a lot like the modern world. Sporting a hoodie and a hang-over from the previous night's debauchery, Dante wakes to find he is lost - physically and metaphorically - in a strange part of town. He asks the first guy he sees for some help: The ancient Roman poet Virgil, wearing a mullet and what looks like a brown bathrobe. Having no one else to turn to, Dante's quickly convinced that his only means for survival is to follow Virgil voyage down, down through the depths of Hell. The pair cross into the underworld and there Virgil shows Dante the underbelly of the Inferno, which closely resembles the decayed landscape of modern urban life. Dante and Virgil's chronicles are set against a familiar backdrop of used car lots, strip malls, gated communities, airport security checks, and the U.S. Capitol. Here, hot tubs simmer with sinners, and the river Styx is engorged with sewage swimmers. Also familiar is the contemporary cast of presidents, politicians, popes and pop-culture icons sentenced to eternal suffering of the most cruel and unusual kind: Heads sewn on backwards, bodies wrenched in half, never-ending blow jobs, dancing to techno for eternity, and last, but certainly not least, an inside look at Lucifer himself, from the point of view of a fondue-dunked human appetizer. Each creatively horrific penance suits the crime, and the soul who perpetrated it. As Dante spirals through the nine circles of hell, he comes to understand the underworld's merciless machinery of punishment, emerging a new man destined to change the course of his life. But not, of course, the brand of his beer.

Cast

Tony Abatemarco
Tony Abatemarco
Lying Defendant
Tony Abatemarco
Tony Abatemarco
Farinata
Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit
Judge Minos
Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit
Paolo
Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit
Hirohito
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Matt Besser
Metallica Defendant
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Matt Besser
L. Ron Hubbard
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Matt Besser
Curtis LeMay
Bill Chott
Bill Chott
Ciaccio 'El Gordo'
Bill Chott
Bill Chott
Calvacanti
Bill Chott
Bill Chott
Stalin
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Michael Coleman
Charon
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Michael Coleman
Phlegyas
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Michael Coleman
Senator
James Cromwell
James Cromwell
Virgil
Andy Daly
Andy Daly
Lucan
Andy Daly
Andy Daly
'Right On' Glutton
Andy Daly
Andy Daly
Jim Jones
John Fleck
John Fleck
Brunetto Latini
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Sean Forrester
Horace
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Sean Forrester
Mr. Argenti
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Sean Forrester
White Pimp
Tony Hale
Tony Hale
Ovid
Tony Hale
Tony Hale
Real Estate Broker
Tony Hale
Tony Hale
Pope Nicholas 3rd
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Mark McAdam
Composer
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Michael Negrin
Cinematographer

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