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Suspiria (1977, It./W.Germ.)
In Dario Argento's stylistic gothic horror masterpiece:
- the dazzling, starkly chromatic, and gaudy cinematography
(with rich pinkish reds and hazy blue colors) and meticulously-designed
Hitchcockian set-pieces
- the opening sequence of dancer-heroine Suzy Bannion's
(Jessica Harper) surreal taxi-cab ride to Tans (Dance) Academy in
Freiburg, Germany
- the series of creatively-brutal and bloody murder
scenes (i.e., the elaborate double-murder sequence: a repeated chest
stabbing into a dancer's still-beating heart and then her body hanging
from an electrical cord, and the bisecting of another dancer by a
falling shard of glass from a crashing stained glass-window ceiling
above her)
- the trapping of blind pianist Daniel (Flavio Bucci)
in a large public plaza where his own seeing-eye dog suddenly lunged
at his throat and ripped it out
- and later - death in a room filled with razor wire
for dancer Sara (Stefania Casini) when her throat was slit with a
straight-edged razor
- the rain of maggots, and the bat attack
- the scene of undead Sara's reanimation, and her butcher
knife attack on Suzy
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