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 in Germany 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, Germany during a torrential downpour to study at the co-ed Tanz Dance Akademie, a prestigious German dance school. When Suzy arrives she encounters another student, Pat Hingle, as she flees the school in terror. Suzy is then refused entry to the school, and she's forced to stay in town until the next morning. Pat takes refuge at a friend's apartment and reveals to her that something sinister is happening at the school. She is ambushed by a shadowy figure who stabs her repeatedly, and pierces her heart, 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 the falling debris 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 barbed tape bolshoi ballet breathe build ceiling co-ed cove dance class dance school dance studio deputy head émigré fall force german shepherd hang happen hidden door hide kill lightning locker room maggot morning murder mutilate necromancy occult one night razor wire remember skylight slash sleep stalk than the turn unsettle walk |
| musicBy | Dario Argento |
| producer | Claudio Argento |
| productionCompany | Seda Spettacoli |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | Germany Müllersches Volksbad |
| theme | exploitation |