Do you like weird movies with crazy weird music in the background? If you like movies that make little sense, has very loud music, and kills the blind man, then Suspiria is the movie for you.
This 1977 movie has the plot, as described on IMDb - An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders. The series of grisly murders are all weird and they have no story behind them, maybe the people are murdered because they don’t follow certain rules, and maybe they are being murdered because they are needed as a sacrifice. Either way, this movie was odd in the way it was scored, and at times the music was a little overbearing.
Suspria was an interesting film, not in the acting, or the overdrawn music, but in the visuals. The movie begins with a young woman’s murder, and an interesting one at that. While the murder is taking place the audience loses all sense of time, space, and placement, and wonders how the woman got from where she was last seen to where she is eventually killed. There are several scenes like this, where time and place are odd and I think the audience isn’t left with a sense of placement to confuse and cause suspense.
While we root for several of the students of the school to survive, there seems to be something out to get them, or maybe something there to cause them to create their own deaths. The matriarch of the school seems very interested in not only helping the police, but also in keeping the students safe, but she doesn’t do a good job, and while she seems very interested her motives are suspect.
One disturbing scene involves a roof of maggots which falls on all of the girls as they are going to bed. Turns out the attic above is full of maggots, and the reasoning is suspect. In another scene a girl gets her throat slit and the closeup of her slit throat is disturbing, even if there isn’t any blood when it is cut.
The ending of Suspiria was just as confusing as the beginning. There were witches, I think. And I’m not sure if the witches were defeated, or if things just happened by accident. I feel like this is the kind of movie you need to be high to watch, for real.
I don’t know if I can or cannot recommend it, but I feel like I should because it is one of those classics that constantly gets recommended. Prepare yourselves for the odd and mysterious, and to be scratching your head at the end asking, “What the hell did I just watch?”
This 1977 movie has the plot, as described on IMDb - An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders. The series of grisly murders are all weird and they have no story behind them, maybe the people are murdered because they don’t follow certain rules, and maybe they are being murdered because they are needed as a sacrifice. Either way, this movie was odd in the way it was scored, and at times the music was a little overbearing.
Suspria was an interesting film, not in the acting, or the overdrawn music, but in the visuals. The movie begins with a young woman’s murder, and an interesting one at that. While the murder is taking place the audience loses all sense of time, space, and placement, and wonders how the woman got from where she was last seen to where she is eventually killed. There are several scenes like this, where time and place are odd and I think the audience isn’t left with a sense of placement to confuse and cause suspense.
While we root for several of the students of the school to survive, there seems to be something out to get them, or maybe something there to cause them to create their own deaths. The matriarch of the school seems very interested in not only helping the police, but also in keeping the students safe, but she doesn’t do a good job, and while she seems very interested her motives are suspect.
One disturbing scene involves a roof of maggots which falls on all of the girls as they are going to bed. Turns out the attic above is full of maggots, and the reasoning is suspect. In another scene a girl gets her throat slit and the closeup of her slit throat is disturbing, even if there isn’t any blood when it is cut.
The ending of Suspiria was just as confusing as the beginning. There were witches, I think. And I’m not sure if the witches were defeated, or if things just happened by accident. I feel like this is the kind of movie you need to be high to watch, for real.
I don’t know if I can or cannot recommend it, but I feel like I should because it is one of those classics that constantly gets recommended. Prepare yourselves for the odd and mysterious, and to be scratching your head at the end asking, “What the hell did I just watch?”
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