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El Infierno

2010 · 148 min

A bitter, blood-soaked satire that lures you in with grim laughs before curdling into something genuinely harrowing and hopeless.

Tagline
Mexico 2010, Hell... nothing to celebrate
Overview
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • corruption
  • crime
  • violence
  • family
  • morality
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror5
Humour6
Realism8
Romance3
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
action, crime, western, comedy, drama
Directed by
Luis Estrada
Written by
Jaime Sampietro
Starring
Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosío, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Elizabeth Cervantes, Jorge Zárate, Salvador Sánchez, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Music
Michael Brook
Cinematography
Damián García
Runtime
148 min
Country
Mexico
Languages
Spanish

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