Suspiria
Suspiria is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror art 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 European dance academy but realizes, after a series of murders, that the academy is a front for a coven of witches. 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, West Germany, to study at the co-ed Tanz Akademie, a prestigious 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 before hanging her with a noose by throwing her through the apartment building's skylight. Pat's friend is also killed after being impaled by a falling 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 barbed tape bolshoi ballet break breathe broken glass build ceiling co-ed cove dance class dance school dance studio deputy head émigré fall force freiburg german shepherd hang hidden door human sacrifice kill lightning live at maggot morning murder mutilate necromancy occult pass razor wire reanimating sara\'s mutilated corpse remember skylight slash sleep spoil stalk turn unsettle walk west germany |
| musicBy | Dario Argento |
| producer | Claudio Argento |
| productionCompany | Seda Spettacoli |
| publisher | Produzioni Atlas Consorziate |
| recordedAt | Germany Müllersches Volksbad |
| theme | art avant-garde and experimental exploitation independent serial killer slasher |