Suspiria (1977)
Country: IT
Technical: Eastmancolor/Technovision 97m
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Jessica Harper, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett, Stefania Casini, Udo Kier
Synopsis:
An American girl travels to Germany to attend a rather gothic dance school. Shortly after her arrival a fellow student whom she saw briefly on her first night is brutally murdered, and a sequence of disturbing events leads to suggestions of witchcraft at work.
Review:
A delirious piece of cinema from a director fond of slashing blades, lurid colour and outlandish musical effects. As in The Bird with Crystal Plumage the plot hinges on a crucial piece of flashback footage and there is much groping around in corridors and through hatches. There are some moments of visual sweep and panache and the stalked young ladies were unwitting harbingers of a horror stereotype to come (cf. De Palma, Carpenter, et al.) However, the intrigue is banal in the extreme and the net effect rather wearing.
Country: IT
Technical: Eastmancolor/Technovision 97m
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Jessica Harper, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett, Stefania Casini, Udo Kier
Synopsis:
An American girl travels to Germany to attend a rather gothic dance school. Shortly after her arrival a fellow student whom she saw briefly on her first night is brutally murdered, and a sequence of disturbing events leads to suggestions of witchcraft at work.
Review:
A delirious piece of cinema from a director fond of slashing blades, lurid colour and outlandish musical effects. As in The Bird with Crystal Plumage the plot hinges on a crucial piece of flashback footage and there is much groping around in corridors and through hatches. There are some moments of visual sweep and panache and the stalked young ladies were unwitting harbingers of a horror stereotype to come (cf. De Palma, Carpenter, et al.) However, the intrigue is banal in the extreme and the net effect rather wearing.
Country: IT
Technical: Eastmancolor/Technovision 97m
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Jessica Harper, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett, Stefania Casini, Udo Kier
Synopsis:
An American girl travels to Germany to attend a rather gothic dance school. Shortly after her arrival a fellow student whom she saw briefly on her first night is brutally murdered, and a sequence of disturbing events leads to suggestions of witchcraft at work.
Review:
A delirious piece of cinema from a director fond of slashing blades, lurid colour and outlandish musical effects. As in The Bird with Crystal Plumage the plot hinges on a crucial piece of flashback footage and there is much groping around in corridors and through hatches. There are some moments of visual sweep and panache and the stalked young ladies were unwitting harbingers of a horror stereotype to come (cf. De Palma, Carpenter, et al.) However, the intrigue is banal in the extreme and the net effect rather wearing.