Argento's skilful use of unsettling, intense colour and stunning set designs adequately obscure the film's numerous structural flaws.
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10/19/08
Suspiria (1977)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:27
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: The blood pours freely in Argento's classic Suspiria, a giallo horror as grandiose and glossy as it is gory.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Dario Argento's masterpiece of horror, with its assault of garish colors, booming soundtrack and horrifically dreamlike set pieces, is the cinematic equivalent of an exceptionally scary fun house.... [More]
Starring: Jessica Harper, Flavio Bucci, Stefania Casini, Joan Bennett
Director: Dario Argento
Reviews for Suspiria
Top CriticAs an appetizer to the thoroughly bizarre world of Italian horror, Suspiria is the perfect antipasto.
09/26/07
Top CriticIt's always fascinating to watch; the thrills and spills are so classy and fast that the movie becomes in effect what horror movies seemed like when you were too young to get in to see them.
06/24/06
Top CriticThroughout this nerve-wracking journey, Argento's sly gift is to strike when you least expect it.
03/29/07
Top CriticA get-under-your-skin makes no sense classic with some of the scariest images ever put on film.
01/14/05
Argento works so hard for his effects -- throwing around shock cuts, colored lights, and peculiar camera angles -- that it would be impolite not to be a little frightened.
03/29/07
There are horror films that scare and there are horror films that quake the senses; Suspiria still rattles twenty-five years after its original release.
08/27/01
No review available.
09/04/05
The final revelations aren't especially difficult to discern and ultimately are a tad unrewarding but Argento never takes his foot off the atmospheric pedal, and the anxiety in the viewer lingers until the credits begin to roll.
07/22/03
Brings together all the things Argento should be famous for: ultra-stylized visuals awash in eerie blue and febrile blood-red, juxtaposed against intense passages of all-out gore.
01/01/00
A movie that makes sense only to the eye (and even then . . .).
09/01/09
Mr. Argento's methods make potentially stomach-turning material more interesting than it ought to be.
05/09/05
Top CriticDario Argento's best-known film is a Cinemascope, pinwheel lollipop-colored spin through a haunted German dance academy.
04/01/06
Everything is baroque and overdone, including the obviously fake gore, but that gives the film a distinctive style that makes it exciting.
07/01/02
One of the scariest movies ever made.
08/22/02
a wild feast of imagery that has never since been duplicated
08/15/05
Overrated Argento thriller. Great design and the lamest climax on record.
01/29/04
No review available.
09/17/04
One of the most important horror films ever made
06/19/08
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02/28/02
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