I'll keep this review brief and won't go into plot details. Other reviewers gave good summaries already. So I'll stick to my impression and give a recommendation.
People often complain that movies today are too stream-lined or just more of the same. Well, Suspiria is definetely unique, whether you love or hate the movie for it.
It is divided into 6 acts and an epilogue. The run-time is 152 minutes. What movie loosely connected to the horror-genre dares to be so bold?
There are long passages where nothing really important happens but the overall feeling, if you remain open towards the movie, is always eerie, unsettling, sometimes frightening. But to me it was always at least interesting.
The visual quality and sound of Suspiria is staggering. The dance scenes are filmed exquisitely and I loved that you could hear the dancers breathe, sigh, grunt... These dances were not beautiful but almost violent and I think the sound design captured that beautifully. And of course there's Thom Yorke's haunting and sometimes hypnotic soundtrack which adds to all that.
I wouldn't recommend Suspiria to fans of The Conjuring and the likes. This is no traditional horror film. When I watched it, I was much more reminded of movies like Midsommar, David Lynch-movies or maybe even classics like 'Don't look now' or 'Rosemarie's Baby'. All those films also have the same unsettling and disquieting mood of foreboding evil that Suspiria also possesses. So if you're a friend of the movies I just mentioned, yoz should definetely give it a try. You might enjoy it immensely.
People often complain that movies today are too stream-lined or just more of the same. Well, Suspiria is definetely unique, whether you love or hate the movie for it.
It is divided into 6 acts and an epilogue. The run-time is 152 minutes. What movie loosely connected to the horror-genre dares to be so bold?
There are long passages where nothing really important happens but the overall feeling, if you remain open towards the movie, is always eerie, unsettling, sometimes frightening. But to me it was always at least interesting.
The visual quality and sound of Suspiria is staggering. The dance scenes are filmed exquisitely and I loved that you could hear the dancers breathe, sigh, grunt... These dances were not beautiful but almost violent and I think the sound design captured that beautifully. And of course there's Thom Yorke's haunting and sometimes hypnotic soundtrack which adds to all that.
I wouldn't recommend Suspiria to fans of The Conjuring and the likes. This is no traditional horror film. When I watched it, I was much more reminded of movies like Midsommar, David Lynch-movies or maybe even classics like 'Don't look now' or 'Rosemarie's Baby'. All those films also have the same unsettling and disquieting mood of foreboding evil that Suspiria also possesses. So if you're a friend of the movies I just mentioned, yoz should definetely give it a try. You might enjoy it immensely.