|
Post by endo on Sept 29, 2014 10:55:56 GMT -5
I've found that to be true with a lot of his stuff Ali. Great looking with lots of gore but you really need to pay attention to the story to get it.
|
|
|
Post by kicktothehead on Sept 30, 2014 13:00:27 GMT -5
I enjoyed Suspiria. The whole ambiance to that film is amazing. You guys should check out Phenomena by Argento. He pretty much remade Suspiria but added more gore and bugs lol
|
|
|
Post by NDX on Sept 30, 2014 18:02:36 GMT -5
I have an edited version for the US of Phenomena on DVD as Creepers. It was just that, creepy as hell.
|
|
|
Post by MacReadyOrNot on Jan 18, 2020 13:32:39 GMT -5
Suspiria is a beautiful film. Goblin does a wonderful job on the music. Argento is hard to beat, when it comes to style. Jessica Harper should have been in more movies.
I enjoyed the remake, but this and that one are two completely different films.
The deaths in this are so well done it's hard to surpass them, but the remake does an amazing job.
I just wish we could have gotten Argento's original vision of actually using 12/13 year old girls as the ballet girls, but his father, the producer, wouldn't allow it. Rightfully so. Still, would have been way more terrifying and tragic if everything was happening to young teens as opposed to young twenty year olds.
|
|
|
Post by leangreen76 on Oct 5, 2023 13:49:58 GMT -5
I know this is an old thread, but it's another One of those "big name films" that have legendry status that i've literally only.just.seen.
I loved it!
It may not have had my full attention, so maybe I missed the point or didn't quite get it. The sets and the coloured lightinmg really worked well though and that music score really, really got stuck in my head! Almost a whispery vocal version of it in some points, or at least I'm sure that's what I heard either way it really got stuck in my head!
Definetly one to go on my yearly Halloween rota I think.
|
|
|
Post by gorepolice on Oct 5, 2023 14:59:53 GMT -5
Rewatched this one a few months ago and yeah...didn't enjoy it. I really just don't like Argento at all
|
|
|
Post by classichorrorfan on Oct 10, 2023 10:21:19 GMT -5
Another one of my favorites! Back when they were still filming this, they let the camera fall freely from the top of a high building while attached to a static line when they shot the scene of the blind piano player and his guide dog getting crushed. Very original and very risky way to shoot a scene.
|
|
|
Post by peteyt on Dec 16, 2023 18:48:11 GMT -5
Probably my favourite horror film.
I'm not normally into the surreal stuff but this works really well. When I watched Suspiria for the first time it was when torture porn was a big thing and I was finding horror quite dull. When I watched this it felt so new and fresh and taught me the importance of atmosphere.
I see some people saying the film is confusing. It's a bit surreal, like a nightmare, but I also find it also has a great simplicity.
I've only seen the remake once. It was nice to see a remake of a horror film that didn't go down the generic Hollywood root. I understand why it didn't try to recapture the colours and score and I suppose it's more of an inspired by kind of film.
For me it's just too long. The original works because of it's simplicity but the remake tries to add so much unnecessary backstory and I feel it made the film drag
|
|
|
Post by classichorrorfan on Dec 19, 2023 9:25:59 GMT -5
Probably my favourite horror film. I'm not normally into the surreal stuff but this works really well. When I watched Suspiria for the first time it was when torture porn was a big thing and I was finding horror quite dull. When I watched this it felt so new and fresh and taught me the importance of atmosphere. I see some people saying the film is confusing. It's a bit surreal, like a nightmare, but I also find it also has a great simplicity. I've only seen the remake once. It was nice to see a remake of a horror film that didn't go down the generic Hollywood root. I understand why it didn't try to recapture the colours and score and I suppose it's more of an inspired by kind of film. For me it's just too long. The original works because of it's simplicity but the remake tries to add so much unnecessary backstory and I feel it made the film drag I have not seen the remake, but your description of it sounds like it was overdone like Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween and the 2006 remake of Black Christmas. The original is a perfect timeless classic as is, as are the two loose sequels, Inferno and Mother Of Tears. I probably won't mess with the remake. Some more great timeless classics from Argento are The Bird With Crystal Plumage, Four Flies On Gray Velvet, Cat 'O Nine Tails, Deep Red, Phenomena, Tenebrae, Opera, Trauma, and Stendhal Syndrome. There is also Two Evil Eyes, an anthology film with two segments, one directed by George Romero and the other directed by Dario Argento. The segment in that last one directed by Argento is his take on The Black Cat. Even Argento's latest, Dark Glasses, has a lot of great action, suspense, drama, dialogue, and well developed characters. It is also not too long and gets right to the point without any dragging.
|
|