History Film / Suspiria1977

Creator/LucaGuadagnino directed a loose [[Film/Suspiria2018 remake]] that was released in 2018, starring Creator/DakotaJohnson and Creator/TildaSwinton.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: The film takes place at a ballet academy, so most of the characters are female, including most of the students and all of the teachers.

* SurrealHorror

* AbortedArc: Olga (Suzy's would-be roommate) and is set up as a supporting character, but she drops out of the plot by the midway mark. It could be said that the same happens to Mark (Suzy's would-be lover), [[spoiler: if it wasn't for the revelation that he is a member of the coven too, which expectedly kinds of takes this arc to another direction.]]

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: In spite of taking place at a ballet studio, the film features almost no dancing, obviously because the two main actresses aren't ballet dancers. And understandably so, as the plot centers on that happens behind the ballet stage.

* HeKnowsTooMuch:[[spoiler: The reason why Pat is murdered by Markos. She sneaked into their inner sanctum and saw everything]].

* AbortedArc: Olga (Suzy's would-be roommate) and is set up as a supporting character, but she drops out of the plot by the midway mark.
** It could be said that the same happens to Mark (Suzy's would-be lover), [[spoiler: if it wasn't for the revelation that he is a member of the coven too, which expectedly kinds of takes this arc to another direction.]]

* AbortedArc: Olga (Suzy's would-be roommate) and Mark (Suzy's would-be lover) are set up as supporting characters, but they drop out of the plot by the midway mark.

* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** [[spoiler: The reason why Pat is murdered by Markos. She sneaked into their inner sanctum and saw everything]].

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: In spite of taking place at a ballet studio, the film features almost no dancing, obviously because the two main actresses aren't ballet dancers.

* ColorWash: Red. Everything is red.
** Or [[UnnaturallyBlueLighting blue]].
** Or green.
** Or yellow, and believe us when we say that bright, saturated colors like these have never looked ''less'' cheerful than they do in this film.

* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: [[spoiler:Were it not for the field trip to the theatre, the witches wouldn't have been the only casualties of the coven's destruction.]]
* CreepyChild: Albert, the nephew of Miss Tanner. It doesnt help that he's dressed in very outdated victorian era childrens clothes. Modern viewers may even see a visual similarity between him and [[ClockTower Bobby Barrows]] sans mask and giant scissors. [[spoiler: He's also a member of the coven]]

* EvilOldFolks: The BigBad of the film [[spoiler:is an old woman.]]

** [[spoiler: The reason why Pat is murdered by Markos.]]
** Also presumably the reason [[spoiler:the witches make Suzy ill, move her into the school, and drug her food in the first place; she saw Pat flee, and might know something. And when she lets it slip that Pat was taking to someone else, they target Sara too]].

* {{Leitmotif}}: There are a few, but the 14-note motif used at the very beginning (entitled "Suspiria", natch) re-appears eight additional times.

* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: Sara]], Suzy's friend, has her throat slashed with a straight razor while trapped in a room full of razor wire.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The first murder in particular is astoundingly brutal, often earning a place on lists of the most grisly murders in cinema.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The teacher that took the students to see a play [[spoiler:and in the process quite possibly saved their lives when the school went down with Helena Markos]].

* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Pat, her friend and [[spoiler: Sara]] all wear white as they're brutally murdered.

->''"The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of'' Suspiria ''are the first 92."''[[note]]Which is technically true, since most of the film is psychological horror/mystery, while the last twelve minutes are more of an action film with far less gore involved.[[/note]]

Suzy Bannion (Harper), an American ballet student, goes to perfect her art at a dance academy in Freiburg, West Germany. On the night of her arrival, however, one of the school's students is brutally murdered. Suzy's new life in school is plagued by strange and nightmarish events, causing her and fellow student Sara (Casini) to suspect that something very evil is happening at the dance academy.

Suzy Bannion (Harper), an American ballet student, goes to perfect her art at a dance academy in Freiburg, West Germany. On the night of her arrival, however, one of the school's students is brutally murdered. Suzy's new life in school is plagued by strange and nightmarish events, causing her and fellow student Sara to suspect that something very evil is happening at the dance academy.

Suzy Bannion, an American ballet student, goes to perfect her art at an academy in Freiburg, West Germany. Of course, as she arrives, young female students begin being horribly murdered, and this turns out to be a bad idea.

Probably the most famous Creator/DarioArgento film, ''Suspiria'' is a movie that doesn't play by ''any'' rules. It's the first part of the Three Mothers trilogy by Director Dario Argento which also includes ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' (1980) and ''Film/MotherOfTears'' (2007).

Fans of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' will find quite a bit of value in this film, as the game and series take very heavy inspiration from it. The anime series ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' was also heavily inspired by the film.

A [[Film/Suspiria2018 remake]] was released on fall 2018, with Creator/DakotaJohnson as Suzy (now Susie) and Creator/TildaSwinton as Madame Blanc, and Creator/LucaGuadagnino in the director's chair, who has stated it is not a straight remake but more of a reimagining of the basic concept (specifically a "homage" to the feelings he had watching the original).

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: The reason why Pat is murdered by Markos.]]

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: The main characters are all female. The male character with the most dialogue in the film is the psychiatrist, and he has only one scene at the end.

* OneWordTitle
* RedRightHand: The incredibly ugly porter.

* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Pat, her friend and [[spoiler: Sarah]] all wear white as they're brutally murdered.

** Although it turns out that these were actually the only words that Suzy heard [[spoiler:of a longer set of instructions, which she eventually remembers at the end of the film.]]

* BookEnds: At the start of the film, Suzy enters the academy in pouring rain, witnessing Pat run out, nothing on her person. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Suzy leaves the academy in pouring rain with nothing on her person (and fortunately for her noone on her trail.)]]

* BookEnds: At the start of the film, Suzy enters the academy in pouring rain, witnessing Pat run out, nothing on her person. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Suzy leaves the academy in pouring rain with nothing on her person.]]

* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Which Argento used again in ''Film/{{Phenomena}}''.

* MythologyGag: The Film/BirdWithTheCrystalPlumage makes an appearance.

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