Suspiria

Pros: Intense atmosphere, Stylish direction, Goblin's score
Cons: Some wooden performances and some laughable dialogue

SUSPIRIA Seda Spettacoli / 20th Century Fox / Magnum Video / Fox Lorber /
Joeseph Brenner Assoc.
Rating: Sweden: 15 / UK: 18 / USA: Unrated

Aside from THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, this is probably the scariest film you will ever see on...

Pros: Masterful Cinematography, Excellent Score, Atmospheric, A Couple 'Jump out of your Seat' Scenes
Cons: Acting

I've been a fan of horror ever since I was a mere child, but oddly my preferences never truly aged with me. Some find it odd when I tell them that I truly love splatter cinema, and that I have a hard time enjoying horror films outside of the seedy world ...

Pros: Great look and sound, from sets, to cinematography, to the soundtrack by Goblin
Cons: Feeble disjointed plot, pointless gore, weak acting in secondary parts

Suzy Banyon decided to perfect her ballet studies in the most famous school of dance in Europe. She chose the celebrated Tanzakademie of Freiburg. One day at 9 am, she left Kennedy airport, New York, and arrived in Germany at 10:40 local time. ...

Pros: the visuals, the music, the DVD extras
Cons: the dubbing, the light plot and character development

Suspiria doesn't waste any time in getting started.  American ballet student Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) arrives in Germany to attend a prestigious dance academy.  When she arrives at the academy, she witnesses a frantic young ...

Pros: Solid art direction and visuals, creepy score, well made
Cons: Paper thin plot, missing elements

Horror films are alot like heavy metal. What was edgy and controversial 30 years ago is irrelevant and laughably tame by todays standards (I mean jeez, who hasn't spiderwalked down stairs by now these days?). Not to mention the fact that any attempts ...

Pros: Jessica Harper, cinematography, atmosphere, score.
Cons: Thin plot.

Suspiria is probably the film Dario Argento is best known for and many consider it his masterwork.  It was the first film in his now completed Three Mothers trilogy which also includes Inferno and Mother of Tears.  ...

Pros: Atmos-fear, set pieces that border on TOO beautiful, soundtrack that redefines anxiety.
Cons: Disorienting plot, B-grade acting, moments that'll have you saying "What the hell?"

I've already mentioned this in a previous review or two, but during my senior year in high school, I dated a ballerina. Being a heavy metal kid, I was actually quite proud of myself for having landed such a gal, and while the relationship was not meant ...

Pros: The colors, killing scenes, well thought out
Cons: Isn't scary, acting sucks, not realistic

I'm beginning to think I'm crazy... or something. Prince's Purple Rain is possibly his most critically acclaimed work and honestly, I found it to be hideous crap. Out of Like A Prayer, Ray Of Light, and Erotica, I find ...

Pros: Beautiful cinematography: luscious colors in deep and brilliant hues, deep, dark shadows, superior acting from lead characters, and better dubbing than most Fulci films.
Cons: Poor sound quality most of the time, obnoxious (yet strangely and unforgivingly catchy) background score by the usually better "Goblins", poor acting by lesser characters, hopelessly implausible script, movie is often hard to follow, pointless s

The iris is a flower, and it will mean the end of you!

This was the original tag line to the film that not many people really know about except those who saw the film's theatrical trailer. Set in a European academy, a theme I've come...

Pros: Amazing music, surreal art direction, Argento has style
Cons: Plot is not completely cohesive, could be acused of style over substance.

Suspiria was my introduction to the work and art of Italian director Dario Argento. A horror movie buff most of my life I found that I was getting bored with the typical American stuff and decided to expand my horizons. Argento is known for his ...

Pros: Beautiful to look at
Cons: Not something you'll watch repeatedly, so purchase not advised unless you know the film.

Unlike many other horror movies Dario Argento's 1977 movie Suspiria is menace filled from the offset. Goblin's musical score that accompanies the movies opening credits is enough to turn those weak in the genre of horror running for the nearest sofa to ...

Pros: Petrifying!
Cons: Don't look for a story and don't expect to sleep for a month afterwards.

Unbearably intense, savagely violent and as harrowing and incoherent as your very worst nightmare, Suspiria is rightly hailed as director Dario Argento’s masterwork.

The Italian auteur outdoes himself here with a series of grandiose, barely...

Pros: Incredible art direction, editing, and musical score.
Cons: Somewhat abrupt ending

As a practicing pagan, writing reviews about horror movies with witches in them can be at times trying. The urge to throw in needless prattle about bigotry and stereotypes abounds. On the other hand, some movies are so incredibly good, one would be...

Pros: Sadly, I really found none.
Cons: Too artsy. Very slow and boring.

I just found out recently that I have been a Giallo fan for some time now. As a youngster, I saw a bunch of these italian horror films and just recently I have found out they they are considered the "Giallo" genre.

My introduction to this...

Pros: Great colors, music, and an experimentially-irrational plot
Cons: Literal-minded people won't like it

"Suspiria" is a surreal, non-linear, lovely film that turns murder into a spectacle, as do Dario Argento's other movies.

The plot of the film is hard to describe, because it's so irrational - we're expected to suspend all disbelief,...