1977 Directed by Dario Argento
From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tanz Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution.
Jessica Harper Stefania Casini Flavio Bucci Miguel Bosé Alida Valli Joan Bennett Barbara Magnolfi Gregory Snegoff Udo Kier Frank von Kugelgen Carolyn De Fonseca Eva Axén Rudolf Schündler Geoffrey Copleston Susanna Javicoli Franca Scagnetti Giuseppe Transocchi Jacopo Mariani Renato Scarpa Margherita Horowitz Ted Rusoff Lela Svasta Dario Argento William Kiehl Fulvio Mingozzi Daria Nicolodi Serafina Scorceletti Renata Zamengo Alessandra Capozzi Show All…
actors: $2000
hair/makeup: $300
dubbing: $1050
lighting: $12 million
special effects: $750
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
“I had no idea you were so strong-willed. I think that when you make up your mind about something, nothing will change it for you. My compliments.”
Sometimes there’s a man...no, wait, wrong movie. Start over.
Sometimes, things don’t work out, and you just can’t quite put your finger on the reason. You meet a person, and you share a great many interests—you like many of the same movies and television programs and podcasts, you both enjoy cooking, you have similar senses of humor. By all rights, you should be fast friends. And yet...something is missing. Sometimes there’s a man, and he’s not the man for his time and place. He doesn’t fit right in there. And yet you know…
Some (okay, most) of the dialogue and dubbing were SUPER distracting for me and a sequence towards the end involving one of the major side character's deaths was mildly dumb but aside from that....
Wow...
Films like this make me realize how much I love/miss technicolor. Something about seeing the colors within early films and how bright they pop off the screen adds another layer/impact to their images and sets than most could now.
The most prominent color is (shockingly, for a horror movie) red. Red walls, red lights, red clothes, but it shines it's brightest, in the blood. The blood seeps and oozes out of the bodies like a freshly opened can of paint.
There are other colors, such…
is demented ballet, like, a subgenre of regular ballet? and if so, will someone teach it to me? and if so, will you make sure the lighting is dope when you murder me afterwards?
Not scary at all and very slow. But the mood is intense and pictures beautiful and colourful!
Visually interesting - only supported by a shallow story.
I know this movie is regarded a classic, and I acknowledge the way it experiements with the colors and the lights and shadows, to create something new and frightening. It must have been groundbreaking in its time. However, I am not a film student - so as a regular person, I feel that every scene look fake and way too artistic.
The story is not good, and I really sit with a hollow feeling afterwards. The characters behave strangely, and I could use some logically explanation to why things happen the way they do. Many times I could even ask myself, “what am I watching here?”
The music is however amazing and creates a really unpleasant atmosphere. And the movie is also scary, even without the use of modern CGI, with some nasty looking body horror.
- Watched on Netflix
The set design was stunning. I adored the bizzare colours and the striking score. The score managed to unsettle me just a tad and the colour scheme helped with give off the air that something just wasn't right. The acting wasn't very good and the finale seemed rushed, but I think the score and visually striking scenery more than made up for it. Definitely in need of a rewatch before I can fully finalise my thoughts on it.
This is crazy, I didn’t expect it AT ALL but the mood created in this did scare me and shooked me... I mean just listen to that musical theme, it’s so unsettling that’s completely crazy !
Im very thrilled about checking out the 2018 remake now !
Great visuals but it's way too overwhelming. The horror scenes are so well shot but the soundtrack blares too loud for any proper tension to be built up. If it was just quieter in the mix or limited just a little bit this film would be so much better. Between the neon colour scheme and the over-the-top nature of practically every element of the film it gets too much to enjoy properly. Despite how overwhelming it is it's still enjoyable, it's just that it could be so much better.
The unrelenting soundtrack, the vivid psychedelic color schemes & the masterful set design ensures that Argento's Suspiria still succeeds as both an experiment in sustained terror & as a work of pure cinematic expression. However the aggressive formalism of the film, its bold strokes of editing & cinematography, are each in service of the slight but potent plot; a fairytale death-dream of alienation & innocence lost.
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