Ah yes France, the 9th circle of Hell

When Scarlett speed-ran back to get the REAL philosopher’s stone, that shit felt like resident evil 7.

I wish Scarlett’s sin was about how she exploits people to accomplish her own goals, rather than her dad dying. In the beginning of the film, she was shown explicitly ignoring the man helping her while he was putting EVERYTHING on the line for her. Same with George. He ended up in a Turkish prison and she just brushed it off. She came off as selfish to me, and I wish they made her confront that in the movie. Other than her basically being Laura Croft, I loved it.

its crazy that the only 3 people benji gave a head-camera to are the only 3 that survived. cameraman truly never dies

I think Benji's sin was this: he cheated on his wife/ girlfriend and the other woman got pregnant and wanted to keep the baby. But he left the girl, denying the baby was even his. However she ended up either dying due to complications, or just the baby died during labor.
There was a scene were benji got stuck in the bones and the chorus kept getting louder. He gets stuck several times in the movie.
I believe that during labor the baby got stuck and died, and it may have killed the woman as well.

"What's your favorite comedy?"

"Dante's inferno."

Zeds child was hinted at. At a point in the movie, you see a random child and you can see zed is visibly distressed by his appearance. The group asks "who is that?" And la taupe responds "not what, who" and its never brought up again. I believe this was zeds child

I see so many people just blow this movie off as a bad found footage movie when its just so much more and is so good when you look past the surface.

The ending is not a disney style cop out! The philosphers stone was always about purifying yourself, your soul, your bodies natural energy, to become better. I think if you have read some stuff about alchemy and how it was practiced this movie gets even better. Alot of it was done in metaphor. The stone was never something physical that would grant eternal life and change lead to gold(which I might add is represented when she wipes off the golden mirror and see's her reflection in it) they were metaphors for the change

I always interpreted the hooded, disfigured entity they encounter in the Ninth Circle to be Satan himself. If you watch it carefully, half his face is fucked up, which would tie in with the biblical story of him being the most beautiful angel before falling from grace. Plus, he never attacks the group, since Lucifer’s true power is arguably temptation. The chair he’s sitting in is also like a medieval throne in my opinion

Interestingly there is actually another scene at the end of the movie, where the three survivors end up crawling through a manhole and exiting into Paris. An interesting note is that when they crawl out the camera’s perspective is upside down. At the end of inferno when Dante and Virgil exit hell they end up on the southern hemisphere and at the foot of mount purgatory, which leads into Dante’s purgatorio. So is this implying that the characters have entered purgatory and now have a chance to travel through purgatory and enter Heaven?

This movie was so fascinating, and it kills me that it gets ignored because it's a found footage-style horror film. I think it's an extremely stylish and well-acted movie, and the inclusion of the Philosopher's Stone, the dead Templar Knight and other elements (especially once they reach Hell itself) are all so intriguing. This is one of my favorite horror movies released in the last 15 years or so.

I think Souxie did get her chance to atone for her Sin in the film, as mentioned she looked distraught when they found La Taupe and he asked why didn't they look for him, so when they got separated when the roof collapsed, i believe thats where Souxie could've atoned for her Sin/Guilt by looking for La Taupe

Interestingly Papillon was the nickname of a French man who was framed for murder and sent to the French penal colony affectionally named "Devil's Island." He was one of very few people to escape/even return and he wrote a book about it. There is 2 movies as well, one from the 70's and one with Sons of Anarchy man and Robot man.

I JUST REALIZED. the curly haired man who tells scarlett to look for papillon is the SAME man who was burning in the car!!! WHAT

The scene with the flaming car holds space in my head permanently.

20:43 If memory serves, a large part of alchemy is purifying the soul, and the process of transmutation is partly allegorical. As one article puts it, 'To the master, producing physical gold is the inferior result — transmuting and refining the soul is the true prize.'

Limbo is actually for non believers and the unbaptized. Dante describes miscarried babies who never got the chance to be baptized and great people of history who were born before the practice of baptism

Sure to become a cult classic. This movie is underrated and has so much going for it!

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