Suspiria (1977)
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 2
The blood pours freely in Argento's classic Suspiria, a giallo horror as grandiose and glossy as it is gory.
Average Rating: N/A
Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 0
The blood pours freely in Argento's classic Suspiria, a giallo horror as grandiose and glossy as it is gory.
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A candy-colored nightmare from Italian terror maestro Dario Argento, Suspiria weaves a menacing tale of witchcraft as a fairy tale gone horribly awry. From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Banyon (Jessica Harper) senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution. Ill at ease as the result of her fellow student's peculiar behavior and increasingly terrified following a series of
Feb 1, 1977 Wide
Sep 11, 2001
International Classics Inc.
Cast
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Jessica Harper
Suzy Bannion -
Joan Bennett
Madame Blanc -
Alida Valli
Ballet Mistress -
Stefania Casini
Sara -
Eva Axen
Pat -
Miguel Bosé
Mark -
Flavio Bucci
Daniel -
Margherita Horowitz
A Teacher -
Susanna Javicoli
Sonia -
Udo Kier
Frank Mandel -
Barbara Magnolfi
Olga -
Fulvio Mingozzi
Taxi Driver -
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Giuseppe Transocchi
Pavlo -
Renato Zamengo
Caroline -
Rudolf Schündler
Milius -
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All Critics (38) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (2) | DVD (20)
A movie that makes sense only to the eye (and even then . . .).
Top CriticArgento 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.
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.
Mr. Argento's methods make potentially stomach-turning material more interesting than it ought to be.
Its outlandish, confounding style [does] more than virtually any other film to create the exact sort of unsettled, panicky mood in the viewer that is at the heart of horror.
Argento's masterpiece is a movie in which nothing and nobody makes sense.
There is little logic in 'Suspiria,' just the exuberance of individual scenes.
Encountered as one might a childhood nightmare or a flesh and blood incarnation of a Grimm fairy tale.
[VIDEO ESSAY] 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.
Audience Reviews for Suspiria
Super Reviewer
It's also quite easy to see and hear the influence this film has had on various filmmakers in the horror genre. "Slicing and dicing", glowing eyes in a window, here a witch, there a witch, what have you.
This is one fine freak fest.
Super Reviewer
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- Sara: And on a restricted diet, they give you wine?
- Suzy Bannion: That's professor Verdegast's idea. Says i'tll build up my blood.
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- Olga: Susie. Sarah. I once read that names which begin with the letter 'S' are the names of SNAKES!
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Latest News on Suspiria
April 10, 2012:
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