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Suspiria (1977)

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The Sister of Ursula (1978)

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SUSPIRIA 1977

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Suspiria (1977)

(From left to right) - Giuseppe Transocchi, Joan Bennett, Flavio Bucci, Jacopo Mariani, Alida Valli, Stefania Casini, Miguel Bosé, Jessica Harper, and Barbara Magnolfi.

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Suspiria (1977)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ .5

What a wild first 15 mins.

In my head, ballet does equal hell or something like it.

I think if I watched this movie in the 70s, it would have scared the shit out of me.

Watch this if you:

like the “GIRL GET OUT OF THERE” horror genre

also feel like when strange things happen in your life, it was probably because of a coven of witches

Similar titles:

Carrie (1976) (similar era/genre, I hated high school)

American Horror Story: Coven (2013/2014) (very hip coven for the mid 2010s, full of very quotable scenes)

The VVitch (2016) (1630s style haunting/spells, A24 never fails to impress)

The Neon Demon (2016) (a shimmering, but horrifying coming-of-age movie about beauty and the lengths people will go to be beautiful)

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spooky tuesday is a (now not so new!) podcast where we’re breaking down all of our favorite slashers, thrillers, monster movies and black comedies on the new scariest day of the week.

should we have saved suspiria (1977) for pride month? rumor on the street is that this is a low-key lesbian film… which actually makes a lot of sense when you consider that, in a way, maybe all witch movies are. but while it doesn't actually include any footage of women kissing, dario argento's masterpiece is still a visual delight. just peep all the incredible architecture and fashion! that's not to say that this flick is all (technicolor) flash, no substance. there's a lot to unpack here, which is why we asked vannah taylor — writer, ballerina, and fellow horror podcaster — to join us as we break down everything from the classic fairytale references to the pop culture impact.

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Seeds will be released on DVD and VOD on January 31 via Vipco and BayView Entertainment. Written and directed by friend of the site Skip Shea, the folk horror tale won the Rondo Award for Best Independent Film in 2020.

Genre favorites Barbara Magnolfi (Suspiria) and Kip Weeks (The Strangers) star alongside Emma MacKenzie, Patrick Bracken, Rick Johnston, Nicole Watson, Aurora Grabill, Bella Medeiros, Demetri Kasperson, and Skip Shea.

No special features are listed. Check out the trailer and synopsis below.

A grieving mother holds onto her Catholic faith as her husband leaves to study and learn the secrets of an old New England cult. Secrets that the Catholic Church wants for their own use. Meanwhile the cult has deadly plans of their own.

Pre-order Seeds.

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Suzy (middle): me

Sara and Olga (L & R): my anxiety and depression

(GIF from here)

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Barbara Magnolfi in Suspiria (1977, dir. Dario Argento)

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Suspiria

1977 • R • 1h32m

Directed by Dario Argento

Starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

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currently watching Ruggero Deodato’s 1985 movie Cut and Run (aka Inferno in diretta) featuring Lisa Blount, Willie Aames, Richard Lynch, Michael Berryman, Eriq La Salle, John Steiner, Barbara Magnolfi, & Karen Black

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 Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)

Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Cassini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi, Susanna Javicoli, Eva Axén, Rudolf Schündler, Udo Kier, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett. Screenplay: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi. Cinematography: Luciano Tovoli. Production design: Giuseppe Bassan. Film editing: Franco Fraticelli. Music: Dario Argento, Goblin (Agostino Marangolo, Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli, Claudio Simonetti). 

SUSPIRIA (1977) | dir. Dario Argento

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Movie Review | The Sister of Ursula (Milioni, 1978)

Like many a giallo, this has some amazing decor, including but not limited to the Donald Duck poster that a prostitute has above her bed. She has been paid by the killer to let them watch her have sex, and she fulfills this contract by paying another man to join her, in an arrangement best described as subcontracting. I can only hope the killer paid her enough up front to cover her expenses. Anyway, anytime you have an element of voyeurism in these things there’s arguably some level of audience conflation and implication going on, and in this case I would like to express that I strongly disagree with the killer’s actions because murder is WRONG. I disagree with the murder part, to be clear, don’t care about the other stuff.

But also, this is less about bringing us into the killer’s state of mind than in hanging out in this milieu. I’ve written before about spending time in films versus getting through them, and this one has the ambience of a vacation, a feeling enhanced by the coastal setting, picturesque locations and relaxed narrative rhythms. Nobody seems to be in a hurry to get to the bottom of the murders, which annoy rather than strike fear into the hearts of certain characters. This has about as much sex as I’ve seen in any of these things (the actors get pretty close to each others’ privates, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a cut of this exists with penetration seamlessly spliced in), but this is less about implicating you in the characters’ kinks (even if one character frequently strips in view of her sister and later masturbates with a gold chain while her sister sleeps next to her) than in basking in a sultry mood. I think Letterboxd user morgue is on the money when they compare this to the work of Jess Franco.

Perhaps it was the food coma kicking in from the big lunch I had earlier today or the fact that I recently returned from a vacation and wish I could go back, but I enjoyed lounging around on this movie. It also helps that this stars Barbara “Names which begin with the letter S… are the names of snakes!” Magnolfi as the titular sister of the sister of Ursula. Whether or not she is one of our great actresses I do not know, but her eyes channel an intensity of feeling, and her bursts of emotion, which grow more frequent and bracing as the film progresses and her psyche deteriorates, puncture the placid surfaces of the movie in entertaining ways.

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Stefania Casini, Jessica Harper, and Barbara Magnolfi in Suspiria (1977)

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🎬 “SUSPIRIA”

🔎 Género: Terror / Giallo / Sobrenatural / Internados / Casas Encantadas / Brujería / Película de Culto

⌛️ Duración: 101 minutos

✍️ Guión: Daria Nicolodi y Dario Argento

📕 Libro: Thomas De Quincey

🎼 Música: Goblin, Dario Argento, Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli y Claudio Simonetti

📷 Fotografía: Luciano Tovoli

🗯 Argumento: Una joven (Jessica Harper) ingresa en una exclusiva academia de baile la misma noche en que asesinan a una de las alumnas. La subdirectora del centro es la amable Madame Blank, que brinda a la nueva alumna las comodidades y facilidades necesarias para su aprendizaje. Pero, poco a poco, una atmósfera malsana se va apoderando del lugar, y la estancia de la joven se va convirtiendo en una verdadera pesadilla.

👥 Reparto: Jessica Harper (Suzy Bannion), Daria Nicolodi, Barbara Magnolfi (Olga), Alida Valli (Miss Tanner), Stefania Casini (Sara), Udo Kier (Dr. Frank Mandel), Eva Axén (Pat Hingle), Miguel Bosé (Mark), Flavio Bucci (Daniel) y Joan Bennett (Madame Blanc).

📢 Dirección: Dario Argento

© Productora: Seda Spettacoli

🌎 País: Italia

📅 Año: 1977

   📽 PROYECCIÓN:

📆 Martes 01 de Octubre

🕖 7:00pm.

🏡 Restaurante Cultural Tierra Baldía (av. Del Ejército 847, 3º piso – Miraflores)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre

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Jessica Harper in Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)

Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Cassini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi, Susanna Javicoli, Eva Axén, Rudolf Schündler, Udo Kier, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett. Screenplay: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi. Cinematography: Luciano Tovoli. Production design: Giuseppe Bassan. Film editing: Franco Fraticelli. Music: Dario Argento, Goblin (Agostino Marangolo, Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli, Claudio Simonetti). 

I've seen movies in which the sets were more interesting than what's going on in them, but I don't think anyone would say that about Dario Argento's Suspiria. At the very least, in the competition of setting and action for the viewer's attention, it's a draw. When Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) tells a cab driver to take her to Escherstrasse, I should have been alerted to the visual phantasmagoria that is to come. It's clear that Argento means us to pick up on the allusion to the Dutch artist M.C. Escher, known for his plays on perspective and visual puzzles; Argento has the surly cabbie force Suzy to repeat the street name twice before saying it himself. But Escher's work was in black and white; Argento's, and that of his production designer, Giuseppe Bassan, and his cinematographer, Luciano Tovoli, is in color -- the most lurid Technicolor seen in a movie since the heyday of the MGM musical. Not that Suspiria has much in common with those musicals: The dominant color in Suspiria is red, and a lot of that red is blood, often artfully splattered. (One large blood splat looks like a Rorschach test.) I can't say that I was shocked by anything in the movie, although the many murders in it verge on overkill. It's too gaudy and noisy -- the background music by Goblin is the aural equivalent of the decor -- to build much tension. I could wish the dubbing of the dialogue didn't have the depthless quality, the lack of ambiance, of speech recorded in a studio -- even the English-speaking actors were post-synched in the manner of many Italian films of the era. But then the dialogue doesn't matter much: It's nonsense about witches, and the plot is only a device to hang horrors on. Still, Suspiria is a one-of-a-kind movie -- maybe we should be grateful for that -- and a landmark in its genre.