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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.... 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. It tells the story of Susan (Harper) a young, impressionable American who travels abroad in order to study at a prestigious European ballet academy. From the first day, however, she begins to realize that frightening things are afoot at the hallowed institution. Enduring a rain of maggots, poisoned food and other unpleasant occurrences, she discovers that the school is a secret convening place for an ages-old witches' coven. Cut to various lengths due to violent content, the film's original full running time is 100 minutes. [More]

Starring: Jessica Harper, Flavio Bucci, Stefania Casini, Joan Bennett

Starring: Jessica Harper, Flavio Bucci, Stefania Casini, Joan Bennett, Miguel Bosé, Udo Kier, Alida Valli

Director: Dario Argento

Director: Dario Argento
Screenwriter: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi
Composer: Goblin

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One of the scariest movies ever made.

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08/22/02
Jon Niccum
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World

Everything is baroque and overdone, including the obviously fake gore, but that gives the film a distinctive style that makes it exciting.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
07/01/02
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

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.

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
04/03/02
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
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02/28/02
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies

lurid splashes of Hitchcockian reinvention that bristle with audacity and a pornographer's sensibility

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
01/20/02
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

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.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
08/27/01
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

It's a classic that all genre fans should see.

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02/13/01
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films

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.

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01/01/00
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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.

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01/01/00
Ted Prigge
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