1977 Directed by Dario Argento
From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans 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…
that $70 blu-ray was worth every goddamn penny to see this movie in its truest form, the horrific dubbing especially
Watching Suspiria makes me forget that anything else exists. I forget every color that isn't on screen, every piece of music that isn't playing, and most importantly every other film that has ever been made.
It's a nightmare. A perfect, impossible, neon nightmare that makes me lose myself. And I love every goddamn second of it.
I want to preface this by saying that this film isn’t for me. And not my favorite genre.
I will admit that there are weird parts but none scared me. The effects were weird and terribly done and that took me out of parts. The camera shots and cinematography were actually stunning and very nicely done. But the dialogue and acting was laughably bad and to me a point of this film is to scare me or freak me out and it did neither. It’s just not for me
I just realized this wasn't marked?? wtf??
Score was crazy. Music was crazy. Brilliant use of color. Can't remember the plot really, just that it was fucking crazy?? Like I just read the end of the Wiki summary and I literally do not remember this movie?? It was a late night but god damn. Gotta see it again.
I’ve mentioned before how there’s a rare type of great movie where every element, even the flaws, come together so completely and hit so hard it’s as if the film willed itself into being. This is one of them; sure you could make the plot less obscure, the sets less artificial and the dubbing more invisible, but why would you want to? As is the movie is suspended perfectly between the real and the surreal, the suggestive and the physical, the everyday and the mythic, with Argento forcing you to suspend disbelief through sheer cinematic force like he has a gun to your head.
Of course the movie might seem ridiculous, shabby or baffling in the light of day. Nightmares are like that sometimes.
i wanted to love this so bad but idk like i thought this was gonna be soooo much better than it was like yeah the cinematography and the colours were amazing but the dialogue and acting was so bad. maybe my expectations were too high because the praise for this film is unending but i am willing to give it a rewatch...maybe my opinion will change. i was really tired when i watched this as well so maybe if i concentrate better next time i'll enjoy it more?!?
Okay, it looks like I've actually found an Italian horror movie that actually clicks with me, and what do you know, it is about the most famous and most beloved one of all of them. I still must confess that I didn't find Suspiria all that scary, more like a very beautifully made but very silly funhouse of horror. Like the other films I've seen in this subgenre, it is in many ways incredibly campy and floridly ridiculous. But here, that feels about right, rather than being a kind of weird mismatch with the visuals and music. Because, in Suspiria, everything is turned up to 11.
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