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Year
1977
Country
Italy
Runtime
94 min

Also released as

  • 서스페리아 1977
  • Суспирия
  • Chok House
  • Suspiria - tappavat huokaukset
  • Suspiria: In den Krallen des Bösen
  • Sóhajok
  • サスペリア
  • Alarido
  • Odgłosy
  • Suspirija
  • Flykten från helvetet
  • Суспірія
  • Dario Argento's Suspiria
  • Soupirs

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Suspiria

Suspiria is a 1977 Italian witchcraft horror film directed by Dario Argento.

Barely a plot and possibly the most beautiful horror film ever shot.

goreledger editorial rating: 9/10 · Read the review

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Argento more or less abandons narrative and replaces it with colour.

An American ballet student arrives at a German dance academy in a rainstorm shot like the end of the world, and from there the film runs on nightmare logic. The plot resolves in about ninety seconds of exposition near the end and does not matter.

It was one of the last films printed using the three-strip Technicolor dye-transfer process, which is why the reds look like nothing shot since. Argento lit interiors through coloured glass rather than gels and pushed the stock to make the palette more extreme still.

Goblin recorded the score before shooting and it was played on set at volume during takes. It is the loudest score in horror and the mix makes no attempt to be comfortable.

The first fifteen minutes are the best opening in the genre. If they do not work on you, the rest will not either.

Goreledger editorial rating

9 / 10

Barely a plot and not needing one. The Technicolor reds, the coloured-glass lighting and an unapologetically loud Goblin score carry it, and the opening fifteen minutes are the best in the genre.

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goreledger editorial profile for SuspiriaEditorial character scores, 1 to 10, describing the film rather than rating it: Dread 8 out of 10, Gore 6 out of 10, Atmosphere 10 out of 10, Rewatch 8 out of 10, Disturb 6 out of 10.Dread8/10Gore6/10Atmosphere10/10Rewatch8/10Disturb6/10

Describes the film, not its quality: high gore means very gory.

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