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Suspiria (1977) Dario Argento ***
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"This movie makes death inviting, the occult real, and me wish that I had seen more good horror films. Suspiria is really something special. I would call it a hypnotizing hallucinatory nightmare. Boy did Suzy (played by Jessica Harper) pick the wrong school to attend. Suzy, a ballet dancer, joins a school for this art, but finds more than she was asking for. Everyone is accommodating, forcefully so, and despite her strong will she finds herself manipulated into their scheme. For example, she wishes to live off campus, but grows sick at the sight of a palpitating crystal, and finds all her things moved to campus. Everyone is friendly, but a bit off. Meanwhile, murdered people keep turning up. The set design and rainbow lighting are the key factors in the films uniqueness. It is rare that one finds such visually stunning murders. The set gives a cheery but gothic retro feel to the otherwise standard plot. And though I would never listen to the score apart from the movie, it enhances ... "
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"Italian filmmaker Dario Argento is considered the all time great horror maestro, with films like Suspiria and Inferno on his resume. HIs daughter, Asia Argento, is an aspiring young filmmaker and actress with a few films under her belt. Her latest, with a title as agonizingly interminable as the film itself, is a near-shameful entry into the oeuvre of her family. It’s torture porn meets melodrama meets senseless violence meets, well, porn. There is not one image in The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things that did not disturb, annoy, or offend me. Based (loosely, I presume) on a short story by J.T. LeRoy, Argento’s film stars herself as an irresponsible teenage mother and Jimmy Bennett as Jeremiah, her seven-year-old son dragged from the comparatively heavenly foster home and thrust into a world of sexual and physical abuse. No film excites me more than one that sets out to toss countless disturbing images at my face for unidentifiable reasons. Schindler’s List po ... "
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"This week on The Media Diet, we check in with Andrew Grant and Aaron Hillis. Grant is the brain behind Filmbrain; Hillis is a freelance critic and reporter whose work can be found at Premiere, The Village Voice and his personal blog, Cinephiliac. Together, they’ve just launched Benten Films, a boutique DVD distribution company aimed at drawing attention to “overlooked gems that deserve greater recognition.” Benten’s first release, Joe Swanberg’s LOL, will hit stores on August 28 (more on that closer to the date). They’re also planning to release two films by Aaron Katz, Dance Party USA and Quiet City, sometime after both screen at The New Talkies festival in New York, which begins next week. SPOUT: We start each installment of The Media Diet with the old desert island question: you’re packing your suitcase for life-long seclusion "
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"I've seen this movie hyped up on the internet for quite some time. I read through many reviews and ended up buying this movie. It was terrible. I've seen other Argento films and liked them. The only good part in this movie was a good hanging. The rest of the time there are just girls running around acting like idiots. I love classic Italian horror, but this was not a good example at all. "
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"Man, I watched this dog of a film over and over with a small group of friends for about a year in high school. And we weren't even chemically altered at the time. For some reason I just thought about it again a few days ago and couldn't remember the title. For some reason it came back to me tonight and there it was on Spout. Thanks! "
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