Suspiria

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    Suspiria
    1977

    Synopsis

    An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

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    Cast

    • Jessica HarperSuzy Bannion
    • Stefania CasiniSara
    • Flavio BucciDaniel
    • Miguel BoséMark
    • Barbara MagnolfiOlga
    • Susanna JavicoliSonia
    • Eva AxénPat Hingle
    • Rudolf SchündlerProf. Milius
    • Udo KierDr. Frank Mandel
    • Alida ValliMiss Tanner

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Playlist

      As visceral and invigorating as classics like “Deep Red” or “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage” might be, they aren’t a patch on 1977’s Suspiria.
    • 100

      Empire

      Suspiria is the perfect antipasto.
    • 100

      Slant Magazine

      Argento’s deliriously artificial horror film owes as much to Georges Méliès and German Expressionism (specifically The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) as it does to Jean Cocteau and Grimm fairy tales. =
    • 100

      RogerEbert.com

      Suspiria truly is one of the absolute classics of the horror genre and anyone who considers themselves to be true students of the cinema owe it to themselves to experience it for themselves, especially if they get a chance to see it on the big screen where it belong.
    • 90

      Time Out

      With his sharp eye for the bizarre and for vulgar over-decoration, 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. Don't think, just panic.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      A veteran of Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the deadpan Harper puts her training to good use, gracefully eluding the attacking furniture and skillfully dodging the imploding set, as she flees—arms protectively crossed before her face—out into the night.
    • 80

      TV Guide Magazine

      The original ad campaign boasted that the only thing more terrifying than the last five minutes of SUSPIRIA were the first 90. Actually, it's the first 15 minutes that contain some of the most frightening footage ever committed to celluloid, but why quibble.
    • 70

      The New York Times

      Mr. Argento's methods make potentially stomach-turning material more interesting than it ought to be. Shooting on bold, very fake-looking sets, he uses bright primary colors and stark lines to create a campy, surreal atmosphere, and his distorted camera angles and crazy lighting turn out to be much more memorable than the carnage.

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