
Suzy Bannion travels to Germany to perfect her ballet skills. She arrives at the Tanz dance academy in the pouring rain and is refused admission after another woman is seen fleeing the school. She returns the next morning and this time is let in. She learns that the young woman she saw fleeing the previous evening, Pat Hingle, has been found dead. Strange things soon begin to occur. Suzy becomes ill and is put on a special diet; the school becomes infested with maggots; odd s... (Full plot summary below)
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Suzy Bannion travels to Germany to perfect her ballet skills. She arrives at the Tanz dance academy in the pouring rain and is refused admission after another woman is seen fleeing the school. She returns the next morning and this time is let in. She learns that the young woman she saw fleeing the previous evening, Pat Hingle, has been found dead. Strange things soon begin to occur. Suzy becomes ill and is put on a special diet; the school becomes infested with maggots; odd sounds abound; and Daniel, the pianist, is killed by his own dog. A bit of research indicates that the ballet school was once a witches' coven - and as Suzy learns, still is.
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| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeThe beauty of this film is hypnotic. It draws the viewer in, casting a spell of its own. It is utterly bewitching. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezArgento’s deliriously artificial horror film owes as much to Georges Méliès and German Expressionism (specifically The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) as it does to Jean Cocteau and Grimm fairy tales. = |
| The PlaylistBradley WarrenAs visceral and invigorating as classics like “Deep Red” or “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage” might be, they aren’t a patch on 1977’s Suspiria. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonIts outlandish, confounding style [does] more than virtually any other film to create the exact sort of unsettled, panicky mood in the viewer that is at the heart of horror. |
| Total FilmJonathan CrockerArgento's masterpiece is a movie in which nothing and nobody makes sense. |
| Empire MagazineAdam SmithAs an appetizer to the thoroughly bizarre world of Italian horror, Suspiria is the perfect antipasto. |
| Filmcritic.comKeith BreeseA wild feast of imagery that has never since been duplicated. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouRumsey TaylorIn terms of technical prowess the king of horror cinema is Italy's Dario Argento. His masterpiece is the lurid Suspiria, which boasts the most arresting tagline for any horror film. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesThinking back on Suspiria yields sense memories, electronic haunted-house sounds, stylish and outré brutality. It's possible to forget Harper is even in it, but it's not possible to forget the opening salvo of operatic violence. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter Chawlurid splashes of Hitchcockian reinvention that bristle with audacity and a pornographer's sensibility |