Director Sean Meredith, artist Sandow Birk and master puppeteer Paul Zaloom crafted one of the most interesting films we've seen this year – and one of the most provocative adaptations of classical literature ever attempted. Dante's Inferno has been around for 700 years, but it's never been interpreted with exquisitely hand-drawn paper puppets in a kind of apocalyptic graphic novel meets Victorian-era toy theater—until now.

A word of warning, although performed by animated cut-out paper dolls, this version of Dante’s Inferno is absolutely unsuitable for children. It’s a unique, subversive, darkly satirical 21st Century update of the one of the original cautionary tales. Sporting a hoodie and a hellish hangover, Dante (Mulroney) wakes up in a strange part of town and the first guy he sees is the ancient Roman poet Virgil (Oscar® nominee James Cromwell). With limited options, Dante follows Virgil (wearing an industrial-strength mullet and a brown bathrobe) on a darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld.

Not surprisingly, Hell is littered with used car lots, strip malls, gated communities and airport security checks. Hot tubs simmer with sinners, the river Styx is engorged with swimmers, while Presidents, Popes, Dictators, hypocrites and pop-culture Icons suffer eternal cruel and unusual suffering. And get an insider's perspective of Lucifer himself, from the point of view of a fondue-dunked human appetizer. Winner of the Best Feature Film Staff Award at this year’s San Francisco Independent Film Festival.