Suspiria
Suspiria is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Dario Argento, who co-wrote the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi, partially based on Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis. The film stars Jessica Harper as an American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious dance academy but realizes, after a series of brutal murders, that the academy is a front for a supernatural conspiracy. It also features Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Alida Valli, Udo Kier, and Joan Bennett, in her final film role.
Plot
Suzy Bannion, a young American ballet student, arrives in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany during a torrential downpour to study at the co-ed Tanz Akademie, a prestigious German dance school. She sees another student, Pat Hingle, flee the school in terror. Suzy is refused entry to the school and forced to stay in town overnight. Pat takes refuge at a friend's apartment and tells her that something sinister happened at the school. Pat is ambushed by a shadowy figure who stabs her repeatedly and drags her to the roof of the apartment building before hanging her with a noose by throwing her through the building's skylight. Pat's friend is also killed after being impaled by a falling giant shard of glass while trying to alert other tenants to the murder.
More details
| author | Daria Nicolodi Dario Argento |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Freiburg im Breisgau |
| director | Dario Argento |
| editor | Franco Fraticelli |
| events | Coven magic occultism supernatural witch |
| genre | horror |
| keywords | ambush apartment building attack baden-württemberg barbed tape bolshoi ballet break breathe broken glass build ceiling co-ed cove dance class dance school dance studio deputy head émigré fall force german shepherd hang hidden door human sacrifice invisibility in fiction invisible kill lightning live at maggot morning murder mutilate necromancy occult one night pass peacock razor wire reanimating sarah's mutilated corpse remember skylight slash sleep spoil stalk turn unsettle walk |
| musicBy | Dario Argento |
| producer | Claudio Argento |
| productionCompany | Seda Spettacoli |
| publisher | Produzioni Atlas Consorziate |
| recordedAt | Germany Müllersches Volksbad |
| theme | exploitation splatter |