Suspiria (1977)

Rating: R

Country: Italy

Running Time: 92 minutes

Director: Dario Argento

Starring: Jessica Harper, Udo Kier, Joan Bennett, Alida Valli, Eva Axen, Miguel Bose, etc.

Suspiria may be one of the most scariest, excellently crafted, visually incomprehensible, proficiently accomplished, conversantly competent, incontrovertibly intelligent and perspicacious and monumentally notorious Italian contributions to the unique and unparralled categorized genre of Giallo. It's a polished, elaborately structured and impeccable example of perfection incomparable. Everything is proficiently and ambitiously developed and produced in an eminent and grandiose high caliber peak, proving that Argento is one of the most committed and enthusiastic geniuses of the preceding decades. To start off, the cinematography is captivating and ravishing. Utterly enticing in appearance and illustriously lush, bright and lavish in its infinite and inexhaustible shots frame by frame. This is one of the stand-out aspects and characteristics that frequently raise this classic to the ranks of several other horror movies. Another would be its artistic, sophisticated, intricate and advanced narrative technique and custom, illustrating and prominently confirming the film's tone throughout its progressive running time. The murders are marvelously executed too, and particularly merciless. Most of them were cut from the film's theatrical release, while some remained slightly altered. This is the area where Argento receives constant controversy, censorship, bannage and most unnecessary, the lack of praise and high percentage of criticism. It was initially respected among its premiere, but it still didn't gain enough attention from the media for many reasons. I don't understand why, because this is my third favorite film of all time, also standing generally and popularly as one of the best horror movies of all time. The soundtrack by Prog rockers Goblin is also breathtaking while also surreal. It's a bizzare combination and conveyed trait with the other fragments of celluloid features. That being said, it is definetly awesome and musically diverse from other scores. It was the first entry in the "The Three Mothers" supernatural trilogy of movies (With the final film reluctantly being shown two years ago), and it still remains the best. It's flawless and it's best left at that.

Pros: Everything

Cons: It's basically the definition of flawless. Probably to be more accurate: Unbeatable.

Recommended? Certainly

10 out of 10