Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
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| Written by | Brandon Auman |
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Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Dante's Inferno by Visceral Games |
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| Music by | Christopher Tin |
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| Distributed by | Starz |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States Japan South Korea |
| Language | English |
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic is a direct to DVD animated dark fantasy action film released on February 9, 2010. The film is based on Dante's Inferno video game which is itself loosely based on Dante's Inferno.
The movie is separated into several parts. Each chapter is animated with different styles. These vary in degree of difference and depict Dante with differing features, such as hair length, bodily proportions and armor.
The film starts with Dante's return from the Third Crusade. Speaking in inner monologue, he describes the forests as gloomy and nearly worse than death. He can detect someone following him, but each time he tries to approach, his pursuer vanishes. Upon arriving, he finds his servants slain, his father dead and his beloved fiancee Beatrice lying on the ground, dying of a stab wound to the stomach. As she dies, she turns into a spirit and begins to ascend into Heaven. However, disguised as a shadow, Lucifer takes Beatrice through the gates of Hell.
In pursuit, Dante's chase through the Forrest is stopped as the portal that Lucifer opened for him and Beatrice encloses Dante there as well. He then slaughters a mob of flaming demons but is captured by a score of large and very long serpent arms which suspend him immobile and then sow into his flesh a torsolength, and apparently "living", cross-form tapestry that is covered in visual animated memories of his greatest sins, across the front of his body. Virgil appears then and offers to guide him through hell. After Dante invokes his faith he is able to tear open the gates and enter hell.
Upon Entry, Dante and Virgil bodily board the being Charon, itself a massive demonic living-ferry that takes souls across the river Acheron to the First Circle of Hell. Charon commands demons to attack the mortal Dante, no living mortals being allowed to enter. Dante fights them off, but loses his sword in the process and so takes up one of the demons' scythes to wield from then on and proceeds to kill Charon, crashing him into the coasts of the first circle.
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