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{{quote|''The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 92.''<ref> Which is technically true, since most of the film is psychological horror/mystery, while the last twelve minutes are more of an action film with far less gore involved.</ref>|Tagline}}
A ballet student goes to perfect her art in a Freiburg Academy. Of course, as young female students are being murdered, this is a bad idea.
Probably the most famous (and arguably the best, though it's often in contention with ''[[Deep Red]]'' for that honor) [[Dario Argento]] film, '''''Suspiria''''' is a movie that doesn't play by ''any'' rules. Fans of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: The significance of hangings, throat-slittings, the Directoress' distinctive snoring, and
* [[Animals Hate Him]]: Daniel's guide dog attacks Albert, Madame Blanc's nephew.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: It's an Argento movie. What did you expect?
* [[Better Than It Sounds
* [[Blind Musician]]: In one scene, where there's ballet practice, the music is played by Daniel, a blind man with a guide dog.
* [[Big Bad]]:
* [[Bizarrchitecture]]
* [[Boarding School of Horrors]]: Which Argento used again in ''[[Phenomena (
* [[Bookcase Passage]]:
* [[Color Wash]]: Red. Everything is red.
** Or [[Unnaturally Blue Lighting|blue]].
** Or yellow, and believe us when we say that bright, saturated colors like these have never looked less cheerful than they do in this film.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: The deaths of Pat, her friend, and
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The final confrontation with the [[Big Bad]] is...surprisingly easy.
* [[Death Trap]]: While following the teachers at night, Sara gets chased by an unseen killer and jumps out of a window into a room full of razor wire.
* [[
▲* [[Death Trap]]: While following the teachers at night, Sara gets chased by an unseen killer and jumps out of a window into a room full of razor wire.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: After defeating the [[Load
▲* [[Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead]]: Once the [[Big Bad]] is killed, the threat is neutralized because the other members of the {{spoiler|coven}} are powerless without the leader and die.
* [[Empathic Environment]]: The storm at the end mirrors
▲* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: After defeating the [[Load Bearing Boss]], one could almost forgive the victor from forgetting {{spoiler|that every last student in the school is burning to death, despite being innocent of wrongdoing, except that said students were actually in town seeing a play with a (apparently not-evil) teacher at the time.}}
▲* [[Empathic Environment]]: The storm at the end mirrors {{spoiler|the destruction of the school}}.
* [[Evil Old Folks]]: The [[Big Bad]] of the film is an old woman.
* [[Evil
* [[Excuse Plot]]: It's all about the colors, music, and gore.
* [[Fainting]]: Suzy faints during ballet practice supposedly because of anemia.
* [[Final Girl]]: Suzy.
* [[
* [[Gorn]]: During Pat's murder,
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Surprisingly, when
* [[He Knows Too Much]]:
* [[Human Pincushion]]: Pat's friend is impaled by falling glass when Pat's dead falls through the sky light.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: The [[Big Bad]] is barely recognisable as a human being thanks to her being "the Black Queen."
▲* [[Improbably Female Cast]]: The main players are all female. The male character with the most dialogue in the film is the psychiatrist, and he has only one scene at the end.
* [[Invisibility]]: One of the Witch of Sighs
* [[Large Ham]]: Helena Marcos in the American dub, [[Narm|ad nauseam]].
* [[Load
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: Pat, her friend, and Daniel
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|Were it not for the play, the witches wouldn't have been the only casualties of the coven's destruction.}}
* [[No Name Given]]: The actress portraying the Directoress
* [[Ominous Music Box Tune]]
* [[Red Right Hand]]: The incredibly ugly porter.
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: After Suzy kills
* [[Scenery Porn]]
* [[Slashed Throat]]:
* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: The witches-in-disguise slip a drug in Suzy's wine that comes complimentary with her meals.
* [[Spanner in
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The first murder in particular is astoundingly brutal, often earning a place on lists of the most grisly murders in cinema.
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: The teacher that took the students to see a play {{spoiler|and in the process quite possibly saved their lives when the school went down with Helena Markos}}.
* [[Trash the Set]]: The Academy's
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: It's pretty obvious Suzy and Mark like each other, but it never gets past the flirting stage.
* [[Vader Breath]]: While sleeping in the dance studio due to the school being fumigated for maggots, Sara knows that Helena Marcos, the founder of the dance school and
* [[Very Loosely Based
* [[Wicked Witch]]:
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[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]▼
[[Category:One Hundred Scariest Movie Moments]]▼
[[Category:Suspiria]]▼
[[Category:Film]]
▲[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]
[[Category:Cult Classic]]
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