Suspiria | 1977 | Italy | Dario Argento

Much lauded and celebrated, Suspiria is a strikingly colourful piece of horror filmmaking, depicting a nightmarish world of intense primary colours where logic and reason seem to fade away. Suzy Bannion arrives in Germany to attend a prestigious academy of dance where she intends to learn ballet. Almost immediately, something is wrong with the place, especially after a student she briefly encounters on the stormy first night ends up dead by morning. After struggling to stay afloat with the teachers’ domineering style and several instances of strangeness, Suzy discovers a frightening reality about the nature of the teachers in the school and their matriarchal leader. It’s impossible to ignore the gargantuan influence the film had on horror films after it was released, but the grandiose, glossily hyperbolic kills in the film got this one consigned to the grungy video nasty category in the UK.