SUSPIRIA 1977
Argento embraces fairy tales and the fantastique with a vivid tale of an American ballet dancer attending a German academy run by witches.
‘After Deep Red [1975, marking the fourth giallo movie Argento had made in five years, starting with his debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage], I really wanted to change something. I wanted to give a twist to my storytelling. So I found myself looking at the horror movies that I used to watch when I was in high school in Paris and I used to go to the Cinémathéque Française to see all these antique horror movies with the display of shadows and lights. I really wanted that to be reflected in Suspiria. I really wanted the atmosphere, the sorcery and the witches to be reflected in this movie, which I wanted to be completely different from the other ones, but still with a Dario Argento feeling.
‘I wanted colours, gore and flamboyance - a magical acid trip. I love things on the border of reality and fantasy - the supernatural. Witches were something
