Dario Argento's Suspiria [1977] is the epitome of cinematic visual frenzy. Centred around Suzy Bannion, an American ballerina who moves to Germany to study dance at a prestigious academy (which turns out to be a front for a supernatural coven), Argento privileged the experience of sound and vision over that of character and plot – resulting in an intensely hallucinatory experience where the witchy storyline definitely comes second. Saturated in lurid…
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