It's 1977, a director puts a young ballerina into a ballet academy, a series of scary events start to happen, there are no expensive scenes full of special effects, there is fake, red blood which more looks like salsa than blood and there is a long hallway which leads to a room with sooooooooooooo many secrets. And it is still one of the most horrifying movies of all time.
Suspiria by Dario Argento gave me some good chills from its beginning. The story itself is something not that new nowadays, but when we take into account that the movie was filmed in 1977, it becomes much more exciting and scary.
When a new ballerina comes to the ballet academy in a small town in Germany, it looks as if she started a series of horrible events, including few murders, worms in the attic and footsteps in the night (after it has been explained that all the faculty sleeps in town). Soon she realises that there is something strange inside the academy. The staff consists of one mute and one blind man, teachers are too friendly and there is a weird housekeeper who doesn't help much for the girls to feel safer. And they don't have to feel safe, because it is not. They should run away and never come back. Because the truth behind these events is very shocking.
It is not the story alone which makes this movie so intense. What gives it the ultimate touch of horror are brilliant music (with sharp, high tones) and wonderful colours (where green and red are so strong that it makes your eyes sore).
Be brave and let yourself get drawn into Argento's view of horrors. You won't regret it, but you might end up with few nightmares or the need to check your rooms before going to sleep.
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