{"id":42572,"date":"2026-09-13T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42572"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:58:50","slug":"42572","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42572","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Suspiria&#8221; (1977) directed by Dario Argento; starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini and Joan Bennett \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z091326review_suspiria.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Suspiria <\/i>(1977)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Dario Argento<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi; <\/strong>based on <em>Suspiria de Profundis<\/em> by <strong>Thomas De Quincey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bos\u00e9, Barbara Magnolfi, Susanna Javicoli, Eva Ax\u00e9n, Alida Valli <\/strong>and <strong>Joan Bennett<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film. Are The First 80.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suzy Bannion, a talented American dancer is excited.\u00a0 She was accepted to study at the prestigious Tanz dance school in West Germany.\u00a0 Just prior to Suzy&#8217;s arrival a student at the academy was murdered.\u00a0 That was just the start.\u00a0 As more students turn up dead, the truth of the school will be revealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dario Argento&#8217;s (co-writer &amp; director) original idea was the story would take place at a dance school for children.\u00a0 The producers and studio rejected the idea.\u00a0 They felt having children experience the violence in the film would result in a banned film.\u00a0 Argento revised the screenplay to consist of young adults&#8230; BUT he didn&#8217;t rewrite the dialogue.\u00a0 This explains why some of the dialogue seems childlike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most folks like <em>Suspiria<\/em> much more than me.\u00a0 I thought it was slow, predictable and not very scary.\u00a0 Of course, your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Suspiria <\/i>(1977)<\/strong> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z091326review_suspiria2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspiria (1977) Director: Dario Argento Screenplay: \u00a0Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi; based on Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey Stars:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42772,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42572\/revisions\/42772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}