History YMMV / Suspiria1977

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_%28Suspiria%29 Albert]], the little boy, has gained an inexplicable cult following.

* CommonKnowledge: Pat's death actually occurs at a hotel or boarding house, after she explicitly runs away from the school, but many reviews mistake it taking place at the school, with the famous window being associated with the school.

* HilariousInHindsight: Dario Argento was persuaded to age the characters up to their early 20s out of fear that a violent horror movie with children would be banned. Fans of ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'', ''Film/AnnabelleCreation'', ''{{Film/It 2017}}'' and ''Series/StrangerThings'' laugh. To be fair, none of these movies have the brutal violence that Suspiria does. Imagine, the first death being depicted on a child. Plus, [[SocietyMarchesOn this was a movie in the late 70s which had stricter censorship.]]

* {{Narm}}:
** "[[Literature/{{Beowulf}} So]]! You've come to kill Helena Markos! A ha ha ha!" Mostly all of Helena Markos' lines in the English dub are overly [[LargeHam hammy.]] Whilst making weird, snorting sounds, she mockingly repeats "You've come to kill Helena Markos" before going down in one hit. Averted in the original Italian dub [[NightmareFuel 'I'm coming, American! And let the living meet the dead, and the dead the living...']]
** The first victim's name happens to be ''Creator/PatHingle''. It's either an unfortunate coincidence or one of the weirdest {{Shout Out}}s in the history of cinema. Knowing Argento, it's most likely a ShoutOut... and an extremely bizarre one, at that.
** Immediately after the blind piano player is fired, he goes to a traditional German beer hall featuring a playful folk dance on the tables. The MoodWhiplash is a bit odd.
** The "names of snakes" scene is odd to watch, mostly because it's bizarre to see women in their twenties bickering like children. This is a leftover detail from the original script where they were children. Dario Argento just didn't change the lines.
** Honestly, the whole of the trailer. It starts with a woman, filmed from behind combing her hair singing "Roses are red, violets are blue" then she puts a flower in her hair and turns to face the camera, revealing her face to be (predictably) a skull, saying "and the iris is the flower THAT WILL BE THE END OF YOOOOOOOUUUUU!!!!!" From there, it mostly consists of the main protagonist screaming, whilst accidentally smashing into glass surfaces, not getting cut, looking more like she's just really clumsy than somebody being attacked by supernatural forces. Every time the narrator says the title, it appears on the screen in balloon letters whilst being repeated in a whisper. The trailer concludes with the heroine having her hair grabbed by an invisible hand and her face being squished against a window in a slapstick manner as the camera films from outside said window.

* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Suspiria'' is seen as a classic of horror cinema, despite some flaws, and it is widely respected in film circles. ''{{Film/Inferno}}'' is viewed as SoOkayItsAverage (though it does have a strong fanbase too) while ''Film/MotherOfTears'' is viewed as a disaster. Suzy is also the most popular of the three protagonists that lead each story - as she's an active character who avenges her friend and brings the coven down entirely on her own.

* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Suspiria'' is seen as a classic of horror cinema, despite some flaws, and it is widely respected in film circles. ''{{Film/Inferno}}'' is viewed as SoOkayItsAverage (though it does have a strong fanbase too) while ''Film/MotherOfTears'' is viewed as a disaster.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Not that all three films aren't extremely weird, but the fact that most of the actual lore is established in ''{{Film/Inferno}}'' makes ''Suspiria'' a bit of an oddball Three Mothers-wise. Mater Suspiriorum / Helena Markos is never named by her proper title throughout the film, and indeed is the only one of the Mothers referred to by a given name (and also by the title "Black Queen" given to her by Frank Mandel and Prof. Milius, never used again in the series). Nor, in this film, is there any suggestion she was part of a larger cult, other than her own coven of subordinates.

* SpecialEffectFailure: A bat attacks Suzy in the third act, but it looks incredibly fake.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The set design and lighting truly seems like something out of a nightmare.

** The first victim's name happens to be ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Hingle Pat Hingle]]''. It's either an unfortunate coincidence or one of the weirdest {{Shout Out}}s in the history of cinema. Knowing Argento, it's most likely a ShoutOut... and an extremely bizarre one, at that.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The entire score by Music/{{Goblin}} is pretty impressive.

* HilariousInHindsight: Dario Argento was persuaded to age the characters up to their early 20s out of fear that a violent horror movie with children would be banned. Fans of ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'', ''Film/AnnabelleCreation'', ''{{Film/It 2017}}'' and ''Series/StrangerThings'' laugh. To be fair, none of these movies have the brutal violence that Suspiria does. Imagine, the first death being depicted on a child. Plus, this was a movie in the late 70s which had stricter censorship.

* EarWorm: The intro to the main theme.

** Although seems heavily based on Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells".

** "[[Literature/{{Beowulf}} So]]! You've come to kill Helena Markos! A ha ha ha!" Mostly all of Helena Markos' lines in the English dub are overly [[LargeHam hammy.]] Averted in the original Italian dub [[NightmareFuel 'I'm coming, American! And let the living meet the dead, and the dead the living...']]

** Immediately after the blind piano player is fired, he goes to... well, the Cine-Masochist described it as a "German brodance festival", and that's the only term that fits.
** The "names of snakes" scene is odd to watch, mostly because it's bizarre to see girls in their twenties bickering like children. This is a leftover detail from the original script where they were children. Dario Argento just didn't change the lines.
** Honestly, the whole of the trailer. It mostly consists of the main protagonist screaming, whilst accidentally smashing into glass surfaces, not getting cut, looking more like she's just really clumsy than somebody being attacked by supernatural forces. Every time the narrator says the title, it appears on the screen in balloon letters whilst being repeated in a whisper. The trailer concludes with the heroine having her hair grabbed by an invisible hand and her face being squished against a window in a slapstick manner as the camera films from outside said window. Finally the narrator of the trailer says "The only thing more terrifying than the last twelve minutes of Suspiria (''Suspiria!'') is the first ninety-two. So basically, "There's this new film called Suspiria, it's only about a hundred and four minutes long and it gets a bit slow towards the end but it's pretty scary and did we mention it's called Suspiria?"
* NauseaFuel: The [[spoiler: maggots]] come from the food supply arriving spoiled. Now imagine what would happen if they had served that food at breakfast.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The German slap-dancing scene. It does serve no real purpose to the plot, and it completely interrupts the ominous atmosphere but one can see another point to it. Because of the ImprobablyFemaleCast and the WomenAreDelicate aspects. The all-male, vigorously masculine dance contrasts with the delicate ballet dancing.

* HilariousInHindsight: Dario Argento was persuaded to age the characters up to their early 20s out of fear that a violent horror movie with children would be banned. Fans of ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'', ''Film/AnnabelleCreation'', ''{{Film/It 2017}}'' and ''Series/StrangerThings'' laugh.
** To be fair, none of these movies have the brutal violence that Suspiria does. Imagine, the first death being depicted on a child. Plus, this was a movie in the late 70s which had stricter censorship.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The German slap-dancing scene. It serves no real purpose to the plot, and it completely interrupts the ominous atmosphere.
** It does serve a purpose. Because of the ImprobablyFemaleCast and the WomenAreDelicate aspects. The all-male, vigorously masculine dance contrasts with the delicate ballet dancing.