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A movie that makes sense only to the eye (and even then . . .).
Argento works so hard for his effects -- throwing around shock cuts, colored lights, and peculiar camera angles -- that it would be impolite not to be a little frightened.
Mr. Argento's methods make potentially stomach-turning material more interesting than it ought to be.
Encountered as one might a childhood nightmare or a flesh and blood incarnation of a Grimm fairy tale.
[VIDEO] Dario Argento's sixth film is a textbook example of the horror sub-genre known as "Giallo."
Italian prog rockers Goblin's tingling, rasping, throbbing score [and] Argento's constantly gliding camera creates an almost unbearable sense of unease and suspense.
Anyone but the most hopeless addict to linear neatness and plausibility should be tastily beguiled and tantalized by Suspiria's cavalier disregard for making rational sense.
An eye-popping maelstrom of visual excess.
an extravagantly stylised Danse Macabre... a surreally demented fairytale, and one of very few films that occupies the no-man's-land between charnel house and arthouse.
A direção de arte e fotografia impecáveis, associadas à angustiante trilha e à direção segura de Argento, compensam as más atuações e o roteirofraco, criando uma experiência intensa e incômoda.
Argento's skilful use of unsettling, intense colour and stunning set designs adequately obscure the film's numerous structural flaws.
A strange combination of the art house and the slaughterhouse, it may be too violent for the typical cineaste and too contrived for the typical gore-hound. Yet somehow Argento impressively straddles both worlds, offering a unique vision ...
One of the most important horror films ever made
As an appetizer to the thoroughly bizarre world of Italian horror, Suspiria is the perfect antipasto.
Throughout this nerve-wracking journey, Argento's sly gift is to strike when you least expect it.
It's always fascinating to watch; the thrills and spills are so classy and fast that the movie becomes in effect what horror movies seemed like when you were too young to get in to see them.
Dario Argento's best-known film is a Cinemascope, pinwheel lollipop-colored spin through a haunted German dance academy.
Only catches fire when it has run out of imagination to end it in any other way but through a pyrotechnic display.
a wild feast of imagery that has never since been duplicated
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