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Overview

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Director:
Dario Argento
Writers:
Dario Argento (writer) and
Daria Nicolodi (writer)
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Release Date:
12 August 1977 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Mystery more
Tagline:
The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92. more
Plot:
A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the staff of the school are actually a coven of witches bent on chaos and destruction. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
2 nominations more
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(41 articles)
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''She must die, die, DIE! " more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dario Argento's Suspiria (USA) (promotional title)
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Runtime:
98 min | Germany:88 min | USA:92 min | Argentina:95 min
Country:
Italy
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (35 mm optical prints) | 4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints)
Certification:
UK:18 (video rating) (1990) (uncut) | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | New Zealand:R16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Argentina:18 (re-rating) | Italy:VM18 | Germany:18 (TV premiere) (2006) (heavily cut) | Germany:18 (theatrical rating) (1977) (cut) | USA:R | Australia:R | Canada:R | France:-16 | Italy:VM14 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:18 | Ireland:18 | Norway:(Banned) (video rating) | Norway:(Banned) (1977-2003) (cinema release) | Finland:K-18 (DVD rating) | Norway:18 (DVD rating) (uncut) (2005)

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Eva Axén who played the part as Pat Hingle had to stay on the set over one week to complete her scenes. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When we see the killer’s hands, they are shown to have huge, long black fingernails. In a following scene where the victim is stabbed, the fingernails are now normal. more
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Narrator: Suzy Banyon decided to perfect her ballet studies in the most famous school of dance in Europe. She chose the celebrated academy of Freeborge. One day, at nine in the morning, she left Kennedy airport, New York, and arrived in Germany at 10:40 p.m. local time.
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Referenced in The Bunker (2001) more
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Markos more

FAQ

What happened at the beginning? Was that Jessica Harper's character who was stabbed to death and hanged?
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71 out of 85 people found the following comment useful:-
''She must die, die, DIE! ", 30 August 2005
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Author: phillindholm from Rohnert Park, CA

"Suspiria" has been acclaimed as director Dario Argento's masterpiece. And it certainly is. The plot is fairly simple. American ballet student Susy Banyon (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend an exclusive ballet school. Once there, she discovers that there is more going on within than just dance instruction. Although the school's directress, Madame Blanc (Joan Bennett) welcomes her warmly, she is unsettled by her aide, Nazified teacher Miss Tanner (Alida Valli), as well as several mysterious student disappearances. When her new friend Sara (Stefania Casini) is the latest to vanish, Susy begins her own investigation of the academy. Filmed in bright, lurid Technicolor, and accompanied by a thundering soundtrack by Goblin, Suspiria is a nightmare-come-to-life. The performances of Harper, Bennett and especially Valli (like Bennett, a major star of the Golden Age) are solid, as is the unrelentingly creepy atmosphere. Also on display are two especially gruesome murders which happen near the beginning of the film. Argento later said that he modeled the look of the film directly on Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and, indeed the similarities are apparent. "Suspiria" may not always make perfect sense plot wise, but it's a thrilling roller-coaster ride through what may very well be Hell. "Susperia" ranks as one of the best Italian-made horror films of all time.

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