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1977
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Positive Reviews
39
Negative reviews
7
Average Rating
4.1
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4.5
Its always fascinating to watch; the thrills and spills are so classy and fast that the movie becomes in effect what horror movies seemed like when yo ..
Time Out
4.5
From stormy start to fiery finish, its a stylish, compelling, phantasmagoric movie.
The Guardian
5.0
There are horror films that scare and there are horror films that quake the senses; Suspiria still rattles twenty five years after its original releas ..
1.5
One cant deny Argentos technical ability to manufacture jolts, but he seems incapable of contriving a dramatic context that would make the jolts more ..
5.0
Thinking back on Suspiria yields sense memories, electronic haunted house sounds, stylish and outr brutality. Its possible to forget Harper is even in ..
E Film Critic
5.0
As an appetizer to the thoroughly bizarre world of Italian horror, Suspiria is the perfect antipasto.
4.5
The movie climaxes with a fantastic light show of lysergic apparitions and exploding chandeliers.
Village Voice
2.0
Only catches fire when it has run out of imagination to end it in any other way but through a pyrotechnic display.
Sover
5.0
Throughout this nerve wracking journey, Argentos sly gift is to strike when you least expect it.
Tv Guide
5.0
Dario Argentos best known film is a Cinemascope, pinwheel lollipop colored spin through a haunted German dance academy.
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
Argento is known for his sequences of gore and Suspiria doesnt disappoint there.
Reel Film Reviews
4.0
A stunning combination of menacing Grand Guignol atmosphere, dazzling colours, gory violence, lush dcor and pounding soundtrack.
Radio Times
4.4
What Argento has created here is an experience which grabs the audience from their seats, sucks them into the experience, and takes their breath away ..
Internet Reviews
4.0
Regardless, hes a major figure in Italian horror and, for me, much more interesting than the sainted Mario Bava.
Mountain X
4.5
There is little logic in Suspiria, just the exuberance of individual scenes.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.5
Whats so extraordinary is that from the moment Suspiria opens, its obvious that theres a powerful force of evil manipulating every element that lures ..
Cinema Crazed
4.5
This isnt necessarily a bad thing, but a haunted house horror film void of color seems startlingly unoriginal.
Film Inquiry
5.0
The beauty of this film is hypnotic. It draws the viewer in, casting a spell of its own. It is utterly bewitching.
Eye For Film
5.0
Argentos masterpiece is a movie in which nothing and nobody makes sense.
Total Film
2.0
Suspiria (1977) is a weird cinematic journey inside a corporeal vision of architectural abstraction.
Coles Mithey
5.0
lurid splashes of Hitchcockian reinvention that bristle with audacity and a pornographers sensibility
Film Freak Central
4.5
Considered one of Dario Argentos greatest works, but is it an overhyped horror classic A visually strong film with even stronger women characters.
You Tube
4.5
Suspiria is a baroque piece of esoteric expressionism that you enter and exit without understanding so much as feeling.
Lw Lies
3.8
...a collection of ghoulish, creative impulses rather than a coherent story.
Larsen On Film
5.0
Its outlandish, confounding style more than virtually any other film to create the exact sort of unsettled, panicky mood in the viewer that is at the ..
Antagony & Ecstasy
4.5
In an excellent Ringer essay about why the 21st centurys glut of reverent, well made horror remakes seem destined to be forgotten, Keith Phipps locate ..
The Ringer
4.5
In large part, thats thanks to the amazing score by Italian prog rockers Goblin, whose tingling, rasping, throbbing score, accompanied by Argentos con ..
What So
4.0
Argentos skilful use of unsettling, intense colour and stunning set designs adequately obscure the films numerous structural flaws.
Film 4
4.5
Dario Argentos whacked out horror classic is a testament to the frightening power of excess.
Scifi Movie Page
4.5
Argento works so hard for his effects throwing around shock cuts, colored lights, and peculiar camera angles that it would be impolite not to be a lit ..
Chicago Reader
5.0
But it is remarkable for admirable direction and brilliant acting.
Bfi
4.5
Theres something truly beautiful about blood in 1970s Italian horror.
Mid West Film Journal
4.4
Its a thrilling payoff to a film thats been all buildup to that point.
Movie Martyr
3.8
Even if it feels a little outdated, Suspiria still stands as a horror classic whose aesthetic power shadows its light story .
3.5
Speaking of inspirations, 2018s Mandy, Nicolas Cages revenge thriller where the bizarre, stylised fantasy setting is never even remarked upon, reminds ..
Caution Spoilers
4.5
Suspirias greatest asset as a horror movie is Argentos wildly unpredictable nature as a storyteller, making everything about his twisted fairytale uns ..
Daily Dead
4.0
Brings together all the things Argento should be famous for: ultra stylized visuals awash in eerie blue and febrile blood red, juxtaposed against inte ..
eye WEEKLY
4.5
A strange combination of the art house and the slaughterhouse, it may be too violent for the typical cineaste and too contrived for the typical gore h ..
1.5
an extravagantly stylised Danse Macabre... a surreally demented fairytale, and one of very few films that occupies the no mans land between charnel ho ..
Projected Figures
4.5
Though witch run dance academy is certainly one of the best ideas for a movie ever to put to paper, its not the plot of Suspiria that makes it so wond ..
Cosmopolitan
4.5
Suspiria loses something in its otherwise commendable diversion from conventional horror expectations.
Not Coming
0.5
Technicolor maximizes Suspirias jewel toned color scheme, making its orgiastic blood shed all the more vivid.
Bitch Media
3.8
Its hard to know whats real and whats imagined the longer shes there.
Christy Lemire
2.0
Encountered as one might a childhood nightmare or a flesh and blood incarnation of a Grimm fairy tale.
Projection Booth Blog Spot ..
1.5
The players: Jessica Harper, Joan Bennett, Alida Valli, Udo Kier.
Parallax View
4.4
The final revelations arent especially difficult to discern and ultimately are a tad unrewarding but Argento never takes his foot off the atmospheric ..
Film and Felt
5.0
The first in Argentos Three Mothers trilogy (followed by 1980s Inferno and 2007s Mother of Tears), Suspiria is an aesthetic wonder of its own kind.
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