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    Suspiria (1976)

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    Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper), a young American dance student arrives in Germany during a rainstorm of biblical proportions and finds horror at a bizarre ballet school.

    suspiria_003Shortly thereafter a woman is attacked through a window, suffocated, stabbed repeatedly through the heart and then dropped through a glass skylight and hanged by a noose.

    A second woman is killed by the falling shattered skylight when a broken beam impales her to the floor and a sheet of glass slices her face in half . . . worse still, the Dance School don’t have a room ready for the American girl yet.

    Luckily, she meets the dentally challenged handyman and a woman called Olga (Barbara Magnolfi) who is to be her landlady. Suzy also has to borrow a pair of dance shoes! Which part of “Dance Student” did she not understand exactly?.

    She also learns that “names that begin with the letter ‘s’ are the names of snakes” (?!).

    suspiria_002Turns out the dance school is a mere front for a coven of witches headed by mysterious Master Suspiriorum.

    A hypnotic but oh so repetitive and ear-splitting musical track – accompanied by a multitude of gratuitous hissings, sighings and groanings – wears thin after the first ten minutes as it pumps pure evil into your ears.

    The fact that the plot is totally incomprehensible only adds to the hallucinogenic atmosphere.

    The first chapter in Dario Argento’s Three Mothers trilogy, Suspiria is a situation rather than a story, allowing Argento to cram the narrative chasms with a sound-and-vision sense attack.

    A 2018 version by director Luca Guadagnino (with a  soundtrack from Thom Yorke of Radiohead) is probably best regarded as a cover version rather than a remake.

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    Suzy Bannion
    Jessica Harper
    Sarasuspiria71
    Stefania Casini
    Daniel
    Flavio Bucci
    Mark
    Miguel Bosé
    Olga
    Barbara Magnolfi
    Sonia
    Susanna Javicoli
    Pat Hingle
    Eva Axén
    Professor Milius
    Rudolf Schündler
    Dr Frank Mandel
    Udo Kier
    Miss Tanner
    Alida Valli
    Madame Blanc
    Joan Bennett
    Albert
    Jacopo Mariani

    Director
    Dario Argento

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