Dante’s Inferno

Directed by Sean Meredith
USA
2007
98 mins
The 14th Century Bestseller updated for the 21st Century

Dante’s Inferno

A film by SEAN MEREDITH
Dermot Mulroney, James Cromwell, Martha Plimpton

DANTE’S INFERNO has been kicking around the cultural playground for over 700 years. But it has never before been interpreted with exquisitely hand-drawn paper puppets, brought to life using purely hand-made special effects.

Until now.

Rediscover this literary classic, retold in a kind of apocalyptic graphic novel meets Victorian-era toy theater.

Dante’s Hell is brought to lurid 3-dimensional, high-definition life in a darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld — set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous — and infamous — politicians, presidents, popes, pimps…and the Prince of Darkness himself.

 

<p>“…feels like the unholy offspring of Mike Judge and Robert Crumb.”</p> <p>– Robert Abele</p>