Dario Argento's best-known film is a Cinemascope, pinwheel lollipop-colored spin through a haunted German dance academy.
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04/01/06
Suspiria (1977)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:27
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: The blood pours freely in Argento's classic Suspiria, a giallo horror as grandiose and glossy as it is gory.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Dario Argento's masterpiece of horror, with its assault of garish colors, booming soundtrack and horrifically dreamlike set pieces, is the cinematic equivalent of an exceptionally scary fun house.... [More]
Starring: Jessica Harper, Flavio Bucci, Stefania Casini, Joan Bennett
Director: Dario Argento
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Reviews for Suspiria
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.
06/24/06
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 ...
07/04/08
It's a classic that all genre fans should see.
02/13/01
a wild feast of imagery that has never since been duplicated
08/15/05
lurid splashes of Hitchcockian reinvention that bristle with audacity and a pornographer's sensibility
01/20/02
Brings together all the things Argento should be famous for: ultra-stylized visuals awash in eerie blue and febrile blood-red, juxtaposed against intense passages of all-out gore.
01/01/00
There are horror films that scare and there are horror films that quake the senses; Suspiria still rattles twenty-five years after its original release.
08/27/01
One of the most important horror films ever made
06/19/08
Everything is baroque and overdone, including the obviously fake gore, but that gives the film a distinctive style that makes it exciting.
07/01/02
A movie that makes sense only to the eye (and even then . . .).
09/01/09
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.
03/29/07
Top CriticThe final revelations aren't especially difficult to discern and ultimately are a tad unrewarding but Argento never takes his foot off the atmospheric pedal, and the anxiety in the viewer lingers until the credits begin to roll.
07/22/03
Mr. Argento's methods make potentially stomach-turning material more interesting than it ought to be.
05/09/05
Top Critic...all the visual artistry in the world can't compensate for a lousy script.
02/25/03
What Argento has created here is an experience which grabs the audience from their seats, sucks them into the experience, and takes their breath away just by the way it looks and feels.
01/01/00
Only catches fire when it has run out of imagination to end it in any other way but through a pyrotechnic display.
03/03/06
As an appetizer to the thoroughly bizarre world of Italian horror, Suspiria is the perfect antipasto.
09/26/07
In terms of technical prowess the king of horror cinema is Italy’s Dario Argento. His masterpiece is the lurid Suspiria, which boasts the most arresting tagline for any horror film.
04/03/02
Throughout this nerve-wracking journey, Argento's sly gift is to strike when you least expect it.
03/29/07
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