Favorite movies that have had an impact on me - #89 -
Suspiria (1977) - Dario Argento's
Suspiria may be a
giallo film, but its primary color palette is red, red, red. The horror thriller features Jessica Harper as Suzy, a young American ballerina who attends a dance academy in Germany. That is just the framework for hue-saturated set pieces which feature veteran Hollywood star Joan Bennet, Alida Valli and one ingenious, gruesome, and gory death after another. The film is ostensibly about witchcraft and devil worship, but it plays more like a nightmarish fairy tale. The young, mostly female victims are drenched in either blood-red lights or the real thing. It's hard not to think of the "horrors" of coming of age and a woman's intimate relationship with blood. Whatever
Suspiria is about, it is so arresting to watch it could have been interesting even if it had been a silent movie. The moment Suzy walks through the sliding doors at the airport and into the stormy night, her adventure, and ours, begins.
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| Suzy (Jessica Walter( is not in Kansas anymore |
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| Suzy's roommate Olga (Barbara Magnolfi) |
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| Suzy's friend Sara (Stefania Casini) tries to warn her that the school is a strange place |
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| Young and handsome Udo Kier, post-Warhol |
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