Championed as "the first feature from Italy" as well as "the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world"!!!

That's pretty damn cool right there.

Adapted from The Divine Comedy, this silent film from 1911 (!!!) shows us Dante's journey through Hell!

Guided by the poet Virgil, the two poets encounter DEMONS, TORTURED SOULS, LUCIFER HIMSELF and lots and lots and lots of BARE ASSES!!!

(All that smoke is either the residue of HellFire or the Steamy Pungency of Sinner Farts!)

So cool to see the cinema of a long distant century ago. Some great ingenuity used for their special effects, set pieces and did I mention the bare asses of years gone by? Crazy stuff.

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Hoop #35 of CINEMONSTER's The Twelfth of Hooptober: Diary of a Madman

My Wild List and all my silly Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 12.0 List.

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