Suspiria (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #35 extract: Suspiria (1977)

Whilst Suspiria is shot wonderfully - almost masterfully - and bears excellent cinematography, it is not a particularly good film. The story is weak and unengaging, the script is plain clunky, the characters are flat and uncompelling and there are countless moments of undeniable stupidity and awkwardness sprinkled throughout the run-time. Whilst there are elements of the sound design that I think work - the relentlessly cacophonous sound track for example - the style of dubbing doesn't work as it does in a Sergio Leone film. This leaves much of Suspiria contrived and silly. I remained lenient for about an hour of the film's run time, but none of its content grabbed me despite the brilliant form. 

I can't really understand what others see in this one.