... a stylish, surreal, downright puzzling piece of seventies Grand Guignol weirdness ...

| Nov 4, 2023

Suspiria is abrasive, corny in all the right ways, and a blast from start to finish.

| Jul 18, 2023

Suspiria is more interesting for its style that its story.

| May 5, 2023

Thankfully, a handful of directors have managed to make the case for horror as a genre capable of great art and innovation. Suspiria is an example of one such departure from the norm.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 23, 2022

...a genre classic, as well as its still-active director’s best film—the one in which his baroque style was most beautifully overripe, and in which the “whatever”-ness of the plot mattered least...

| Apr 1, 2022

Whatever its downfalls of narrative and dramatically achieved emotion may be, Suspiria's technical and aesthetic composure overwhelms, astounds, and shocks its place into the annuls of all horror, giallo or otherwise.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 8, 2022

What makes [Suspiria] especially effective is how they use horror to make a point about educational institutions' enforcement of gender hegemony to interrogate conventional femininity.

| Jan 7, 2021

"His sixth feature film and perhaps his masterpiece, strategically moves away from the typical stories of the giallo without separating a millimeter from his visual and stylistic drives". [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 31, 2020

Suspiria has had a huge impact on every death dream that pits bloody madness over surreal macabre imagery. While we can no more call it a singular vision, it's essential to note that it wasn't supposed to be one in the first place.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 26, 2019

A beautiful bright fantasy that lives off its aesthetic.

| Jan 19, 2019

Considered one of Dario Argento's greatest works, but is it an overhyped horror classic? A visually strong film with even stronger women characters.

| Nov 11, 2018

Alternately a feast for the senses and an assault on them. It's a threadbare tale, thank goodness, as a convoluted plot combined with the crashing and banging and retina-exploding visuals would have been overwhelming.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 10, 2018

...a collection of ghoulish, creative impulses rather than a coherent story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2018

Thinking back on "Suspiria" yields sense memories, electronic haunted-house sounds, stylish and outré brutality. It's possible to forget Harper is even in it, but it's not possible to forget the opening salvo of operatic violence.

| Original Score: A | Oct 10, 2018

What lingers is not a sense of evil but exhilaration in how far Argento and his fellow filmmakers were willing to go to shock and delight; the movie's sheer exuberance is the cinematic equivalent of a blood transfusion.

| Oct 5, 2018

Argento accomplishes so much simply through lighting and music - which goes a long way to compensate for the stilted dialogue and awkward character interactions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2018

Though "witch-run dance academy" is certainly one of the best ideas for a movie ever to put to paper, it's not the plot of Suspiria that makes it so wonderful so much as it is the look.

| Mar 9, 2018

Unhappily, Argento never summons the courage to abandon narrative completely, so the script is continually acting as a brake while the visuals are driving forward to the next set-piece

| Jan 8, 2018

Suspiria is a baroque piece of esoteric expressionism that you enter - and exit - without understanding so much as feeling.

| Dec 4, 2017

A film that has been hugely influential amongst fans and filmmakers alike for four decades now, Suspiria remains one of the greatest horror movies ever concocted, and the new 4K restoration is the perfect celebration of Argento's mad genius.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 7, 2017