SUSPIRIA

PARC AT MIDNIGHT : PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Suspiria takes place in Freiburg Germany during the 1970s. Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper), a young American ballet student, has been given the opportunity to study at the Tanz Dance Akademie. Upon her arrival, Suzy witnesses another girl suffering from some sort of mental breakdown or episode, departing from the academy’s doors and running into the rainstorm. When Suzy approaches the door, she discovers that it is locked and rings the intercom, only to be denied by the woman on the other end. She returns the next day and is greeted warmly by Miss Tanner (Alida Valli), the head instructor. However, as Suzy begins her classes, she suffers from multiple fainting spells and it becomes apparent that there is something strange going on at the school.

‘’It was not a traditionally gothic horror piece that happened in a castle,” he said. “It was happening in a modern-day European city to a girl that anyone in the cinema could identity with.” It also melded shockingly graphic death scenes with the haunting atmosphere of a supernatural thriller. “There are two types of genre movies,” del Toro said. “The ones that take you on a ride but you know it’s never going to go off the rails, and other horror films where you feel that the driver is a madman, and this bus could go off the clip at any second. That’s what ‘Suspiria’ has going for it. That makes it entirely unique. In many ways, it’s unrepeatable.” (GUILLERMO DEL TORO)