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Suspiria (1977)
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Summary: A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the staff of the school are actually a coven of witches bent on chaos and destruction. (imdb)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Directed By: Dario Argento
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Suspiria belongs to 42 collections
1. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (public: moderated by curseof26 - 45 stars)
2. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2008 revision) (public: moderated by Scottathon - 29 stars)
3. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2010 revision) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 10 stars)
4. TimeOut's 1000 films to change your life (public: moderated by ppinocchio - 4 stars)
5. Passed the Bechdel Test (public: moderated by baaic - 4 stars)
6. Color Photography (public: moderated by Criminal5 - 2 stars)
7. Witches (public: moderated by Moribunny - 1 star)
8. Best Opening Scenes (public: moderated by mpowell - 1 star)
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10. Bad acting (public: moderated by Pickpocket - 1 star)
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I guess any giallo fan will tell me this is not a genre to be taken at face value. But I can't help it, the lack of suspense and the blood/gore effects in Suspiria are just so laughably mediocre. The story is very unimaginative. It's a shame, the actors were ok and some of the interiors exquisite. When you compare this with a modern witch-based horror like Drag Me To Hell, the lack of scariness plays out worse than amateur. Is that the whole point of giallo or am I missing something?
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na fletch
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na Luna6ix
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the use of lighting was irrelevant and nearly annoying. the plot was nearly non-existant. it does have an actually scary part (rarely do i get scared in movies), but you have to sit through an hour and ten minutes of crap to get to it.
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very solid horror film from Dario Argento. the music, colors and screenplay are all very good. when it comes to horror, Italy is proabably as good as it gets and Argento is probably the best director.
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