Suspiria

Yesterday's flick, got a back up goin' here.

10/16: Tonight's film was Dario Argento's Suspiria. I watched the sequel to this last year, Inferno, and other than that the only Argento I've seen is "Opera." In a lot of ways, my review of Suspiria will be much the same as last years for Inferno. Argento, as a legend of the horror genre, makes a helluva beautiful film. The movie is surreal in the richness of the colors Argento uses, with every scene awash in neon pink, green, blue, etc. It's almost anti-German Expressionism; the sets look other worldly in color rather that black and white, and that's where Argento's horror lies. There, and in the soundtrack, which is blaring and maddening. Almost too much at times, but I think that's hat Argento intended. The story of a coven as coven is pretty convoluted and whacky, but it works far more successfully than that in Inferno. The final scene is pretty freaky and bizarre, and I really dug it. 

Still, not as good as as Opera, but a good, different, surreal offering from Argento.

8/10