The curious case of the Suspiria smile
Countless horror movies end with the Final Girl left insensible after a terrifying ordeal. For she has run the gauntlet of the cruel, the strange, the perverse, sometimes the supernatural and always the transgressive. In a film’s closing moments, we – and they – register and acknowledge that nerves have been shredded, bodies bruised and bloodied and minds scarred for a lifetime. Yet Dario Argento’s , somewhat surprisingly, does not toe the genre
