Terrific visuals and atmosphere, but that's about all it has going for it.

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?

A beautiful nightmare with fantastic music. If the plot was more coherent this movie would be perfect.

I don't really like this guy's movies.

"...a wild feast of imagery that has never since been duplicated."

Horrifying, disturbing, weird--a high point for horror movies.

The only times it really falters, is when it decides it should start making sense.

Stylish, with excellent sets, arts direction, and use of color. In parts,it's genuinely scary. The soundtrack is great.

Highly-stylized horror that has little-to-no substance.

Sort of like an actual nightmare that was somehow committed to film

The music, use of color, lighting, camerawork, and art direction is fantastic. Unfortunately, the story is typical and the dialogue is terrible.

Great camera work and great color made it one of the most visually stimulating films I've seen, but the rest is so bad. I laughed at the gory scenes because the effects were so awful. Weird acting and dubbing is just all over the place. The pace just kind of mills around; it takes too long for anything to happen, and there's way too many establishing shots. Good thing Harper is easy on the eyes since roughly 1/3 of the movie is just her doing mundane crap like combing her hair and hailing a cab.

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Didn't like it as much as Deep Red, but it's still Dario Argento so it's beautifully oversaturated with colors and super creepy.

With a script very idiot, Argento proves his capacity as director, showing that history does not matter, but the way they tell it.

argento starts the movie with all kinds of atmosphere and doesn't let up. the colors, imagery, set design and camerawork make for an incredibly stimulating visual journey. there are some shocking death scenes and some creepy moments but overall there is much more ambience than substance to the story - and i really don't mind that at all. suspiria makes a perfect mood setter for a scary movie night.

This is incredibly reliant on cheap tricks, a maddening score, shock kills, creepy ambiance, etc. and yet it works exceedingly well. The film's visuals are incredibly striking with superb use of color, stark set design and disorienting camera angles; they alone are reason enough to watch.The rest is not great but also never bad enough to detract, the acting is competent and believable, the supernatural plot is thin but effective and the splatters of blood just the right mix of fake and shocking.

A terrific assault on the senses!

Stylish and surreal.

I definitely need to see this again now that it's on DVD. What I remember was strikingly original, but also a little too silly.

"One of the most important horror films ever made."

Very NIce

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Not a big fan of dubbing.

This is one of the best examples for films which are combining music, colors, camera angle and a dramatic set to pure suspense.

Stylish and memorable.

Aka.: "A Not Really That Short Film About The Aesthetic Possibilities of The Kill". Even though, granted, that title is none too catchy. Makes no sense, but - luckily - doesn't need to. The colours, compositions, angles, cuts, lines and the music, oh the music, all create this eerie atmosphere, where you get the sense that anything and everything might happen, will happen.

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.

One of the best horror movies ever, and also with one of the greatest soundtracks ever.

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.