Review #242: Suspiria (1977)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #96: Suspiria (1977) (I just noticed that these last two movies- Carrie and Suspiria- both had 2010s remakes starring Chloe Grace Moretz. I didn't mean to put them side-by-side, that's just how it happened.) Suspiria is a film about Suzy Bannion, an American girl who travels to Germany to join a prestigious ballet school. Once there she becomes strangely ill, other students are mysteriously murdered, and she begins to learn of a nefarious plot among the staff that could mean dark intentions are afoot. I spent the first thirty minutes of this film asking myself, "What the hell is this movie?" It redeemed itself by the end- not in a sense that I enjoyed it, but in a sense that I understood what the hell it even was, but I don't think this is a good film and I say without exaggeration that some of the sequences in it are so nonsensical that I can't accept them as be...