Suspiria (1977)
Directed by Dario Argento
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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This visuals for this film were inspired by the Technicolor process (it should be noted that the actually film stock used on this film was Kodak) and fairy tale films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .
Less real-world influences came from Argento's partner Daria Nicolodi, who had become attracted to various fairy-tale sources, from Alice in Wonderland and Bluebeard to Pinocchio and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Interestingly, Argento tasked Tovoli with viewing Walt Disney’s Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) so that he could emulate the film’s color scheme.
The first in a supposed trilogy (the second film, Inferno, was completed, but the third film is still unproduced), Argento was influenced by Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but Suspiria has proved just as influential on both Italian and American cinema (John Carpenter has stolen from this movie on multiple occasions).
Argento matches Hitchcock's Psycho in this aspect of Suspiria .
Following the success of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho , George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and latterly the critically acclaimed The Exorcist , a new wave of director’s pushed the boundaries of the genre both in terms of narrative and theme.
…attempting to adapt Jeunet and Caro to "Phantom of the Opera"), when he finds the perfect source material to serve as foundation for his redux perversions (Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, and Rebecca for Suspiria), the end result can be as original as it is discomfiting.
Suspiria less dreamily recalls Vertigo in its segmentation of women and its colour suffusions; Psycho, in a fixation on bird imagery, first act monetary concerns, and a swirl of vermouth down the drain; Rebecca in its monstrous maid (Olga (Barbar Magnolfi)) and torching of an analogous Manderly; and Suspicion and Notorious in the slow ascents and lingering reveals of doctored libation.
Suspiria less dreamily recalls Vertigo in its segmentation of women and its colour suffusions; Psycho, in a fixation on bird imagery, first act monetary concerns, and a swirl of vermouth down the drain; Rebecca in its monstrous maid (Olga (Barbar Magnolfi)) and torching of an analogous Manderly; and Suspicion and Notorious in the slow ascents and lingering reveals of doctored libation.
…attempting to adapt Jeunet and Caro to "Phantom of the Opera"), when he finds the perfect source material to serve as foundation for his redux perversions (Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, and Rebecca for Suspiria), the end result can be as original as it is discomfiting.
Essentially, most noir novels or films from any country are considered giallo ( Peeping Tom , UK, Vertigo , US, Mannequin in Red , Sweden).
…attempting to adapt Jeunet and Caro to "Phantom of the Opera"), when he finds the perfect source material to serve as foundation for his redux perversions (Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, and Rebecca for Suspiria), the end result can be as original as it is discomfiting.
…attempting to adapt Jeunet and Caro to "Phantom of the Opera"), when he finds the perfect source material to serve as foundation for his redux perversions (Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, and Rebecca for Suspiria), the end result can be as original as it is discomfiting.
Bava’s film was one six that inspired Suspiria , the rest being Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), David Hand’s aforementioned Disney-produced Snow White And The Seven Dwarves (1937), Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (1942), Neorealism founders Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, along Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Franco Rossi’s Le streghe ( The Witches, 1967), and Brian De Palma’s Phantom Of Paradise (1974), which Harper also starred in.
Bava’s film was one six that inspired Suspiria , the rest being Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), David Hand’s aforementioned Disney-produced Snow White And The Seven Dwarves (1937), Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (1942), Neorealism founders Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, along Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Franco Rossi’s Le streghe ( The Witches, 1967), and Brian De Palma’s Phantom Of Paradise (1974), which Harper also starred in.
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Argento contratou Bennett apenas por ser viúva de Fritz Lang, autor de obras que marcaram profundamente o realizador italiano: Metropolis , Siegfried e os filmes do Dr.
Other performance of note include, Stefania Casini ( The Climber , Bloodstained Shadow ) in the role of Sara, a student who meets a grizzly fate due to her inquisitiveness, Joan Bennett ( Scarlet Street , “Dark Shadows” ) in the role of Madame Blanc and Alida Valli ( The Third Man , Inferno ) in the role of Miss Tanner, a domineering instructor at the academy.
Suspiria's plot is incidental: Susy Bannion (Jessica Harper) is an American ballet student who comes to study at a prestigious European dance academy run by Madame Blanc (Joan Benett, known best as the Femme Fatale in Scarlet Street).
One of the few scenes that is not bathed in impressionistic colors and lighting is the requisite visit to the Experts Who Explain Everything, a daylit, outdoors encounter with two professors (Rudolf Schündler from The Exorcist and ubiquitous cult favorite Udo Kier) who explain the history of witchcraft and a sinister figure known as the Black Queen (which might as well be another Alice in Wonderland reference, if not a nod to the sinister queens in fairy tales).
Following the success of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho , George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and latterly the critically acclaimed The Exorcist , a new wave of director’s pushed the boundaries of the genre both in terms of narrative and theme.
We were at the tail end of the paranoid and demon possession horror entries of the early ‘70s (like The Exorcist ) and a year before John Carpenter’s landmark Halloween gave birth to the slasher film.
She is now dead, the victim of a fire, and another of Mandel’s friends, Professor Milius (Rudolf Schündler, Karl from The Exorcist and Father Conrad from Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil , one of the scummiest possession movies you will ever see) believes that her coven is suffering without her as their leader.
Better known under its export title Gently Before She Dies , the film stars Edwige Fenech, Luigi Pistilli, and Anita Strindberg, and uses many elements from Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Black Cat (acknowledging this influence in the film’s opening credits).
Influenced as much by The Red Shoes (1948) as by Rosemary’s Baby (1968), it tells the story of Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper), a young American ballet student who comes to a German dance academy directed by the kindly-seeming Mme Blanc (Joan Bennett) – where mysterious disappearances and murders are the order of the day (and more particularly the night).
Essentially, most noir novels or films from any country are considered giallo ( Peeping Tom , UK, Vertigo , US, Mannequin in Red , Sweden).
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Following the success of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho , George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and latterly the critically acclaimed The Exorcist , a new wave of director’s pushed the boundaries of the genre both in terms of narrative and theme.
Suspiria, about an American ballet student, Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper), who transfers to a prestigious dance academy in Germany, only to find out that the academy is not what it seems, is the first of Argento’s Le Tre madri ( The Three Mothers ) Trilogy, which is rounded off by Inferno (1980( and La Terza madre ( The Mother of Tears , 2007), literally translating in English to “the third mother.”