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"The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92"; announced the movie poster by Dario Argentos Suspiria. When we founded our video store, Suspiria was not available on DVD in Germany. Still not today. In the wish box, which I had screwed on before the shop, I found disproportionately often wish lists, which Dario Argento - Suspiria demanded. And rightly so! The high expectations that such a cinema poster arouses are even exceeded by Suspiria! We experience an outburst of sound, and IMAGES and rage and anger! Suspiria combines horror, developed from the gut with avant-garde. Never again did a horror movie look so fantastic! Meanwhile Argento can unfortunately be considered as one of the filmmakers, who run after her old form for decades; but we can probably all agree on Suspiria! During the 1970s and into the 1980s Argento was able to gather behind him a community of geeks with the traits of a sect. Every one of his latest films was expected like a miracle! All over the world Argento was mentioned in the same breath as the greatest Italian directors - but not in Germany. None of his classics were accessible to us, so we Berliners went to the Videodrom to borrow imported VHS. To see Argento too! Just in time, on my 18th birthday, I stood in the Videodrom (and not in school) to have a membership card made. Like so many before him, Argento began as a critic and screenwriter (he wrote the script for Once_Upon_A_Time_In_The_West). From 1970 he established himself with his own films in the Giallo area. Argento's career began with an uncanny success, which was surpassed by two others. Like any good auteur, he tried foreign genres, made a comedy to return to his nerve-shattering shocks. In the mid-1970s he decided to expand his style. Argento dedicated himself to the supernatural, discovered Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey from 1845 and wrote based on the novel Suspiria. By the way, together with his girlfriend, the actress Daria Nicolodi. Suspiria opens with a ballet student coming out of the dark night. She studies at the German Dance Academy in Freiburg, a place where schoolgirls are haunted by murderers at night. A series of bizarre incidents culminates in the realization that the founder of the school was a witch. Are we even dealing with a dance school? Or are we in a witches' Sabbath? Argento had traditionally told his Giallo films before Suspiria. Here he decided to sacrifice everything we are used to in conventional structures. Suspiria is a sensation! Suspiria seems like an extremely dark adult version of the fairy tales we feared as children. A film like a nightmare that also follows the logic of a dream. A work of art that gets out of control! Visually, Suspiria appears like a baroque painting, although here too all borders are crossed. I think Argento used everything that was on the market in terms of filters, visual concepts, mirrors and light effects, chases after what's happening with the camera, doesn't give us a break. Which film was so far ahead of its time? Famous are the pictures of the murders, which seem like decadent arrangements. Right at the beginning, the camera moves into the body of a murdered girl to the heart that was punctured. In general, Argento staged the series of murders at the ballet school like a ballet. Splatter becomes art here, the most eerie moments are also the most enchanting. Argento has therefore been accused of being an enemy of women: beautiful women are stabbed in breathtaking sets. However, in Suspiria it is almost exclusively women who play with such charismatic stars as Jessica Harper, Jon Bennett and Alida Valli, who had long since made film history. The stylistic excess with which Suspiria ends in the apocalypse finally makes us realize that Argento had sounded out his style in its entirety. Was there any more? I don't think so! After all, Suspiria is the first part of a trilogy that ended in 1980 with Inferno and in 2007 with Mother Of Tears. Of course, the successor is even more exaggerated and even less interested in action or logic. We also understand a little bit Argentos decline, because basically nobody wanted to see Mother Of Tears anymore. But Suspiria is a unique cinematic experiment that has been passed down from generation to generation. One of the great classics in the history of cinema!