Suspiria is one of the few artful horror pictures that I know of. Dario Argento has directed this "giallo", a pulpy Italian horror movie. His brilliant colors and imagery bring his story to life.
Jessica Harper plays a girl who moves to a ballet in college in Italy. The school seems fine until strange and unexplained events occur. When the girl does some investigating, she finds out that the school is being run by a witches covent.
Dario Argento's direction is the real reason the film is so good. It's eerily bright colors and Goblin soundtrack are spooky and draw the viewer in. In the first and best scene of the film a double murder occurs. The scene is so graphic that it even shows a girl's heart being repeatedly stabbed. The rich color of the blood splashes onto the odd yellow color of the glass behind her.
These days it may be considered a somewhat hokey, obscure foreign movie, but it truly is a horror masterpiece. By the end, it morphs into something so strange and beautiful that it is hard to resist it. One of Dario Argento's better films.
Unfortunately, this film is being remade in America. A poor choice considering the old one is good enough.
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