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Phalanx
10-18-2007, 03:34 PM
...I remember hearing good things about it...saw it cheap and picked it up a while back, and have been toying with the notion of watching it.
So, is it any good?
Anyone wanna tell me a little about it without fucking up the plot entirely?
Despare
10-18-2007, 03:38 PM
Interestingly shot and full of beautiful colors and some nice kills. The plot can drift and the pacing can be a bit slower than some would like but I think it ends up being a great film. Wonderful music too...
alkytrio666
10-18-2007, 06:39 PM
Personally, I love it. It isn't Argento's best, and the acting is atrocious, but it really is a fun ride.
And it has the creepiest horror score of all time, hands down, thanks to Goblin.
_____V_____
10-18-2007, 08:39 PM
The best slasher made, IMO...with a lot of inventive kills and coupled with an awesome soundtrack by Goblin. The pacing can be a bit awkward to anyone who isnt familiar with Argento, but its a brilliant movie.
Watch it and lets see what you think of it, Cheebs.
bwind22
10-18-2007, 08:58 PM
I thought it was drastically over-rated. It was too artistic and slow paced for my taste. I found it rather boring. The music was eerie though.
fortunato
10-19-2007, 12:17 AM
it's a really great film, i think. as mostly everyone above already said, it's extremely artistic and compositionally incredible. the whole thing is just really stylish and a lot of fun to watch. the only complaint is that it's somewhat anticlimactic, but not even enough to make it upsetting or anything. but yeah, definitely give it a watch.
actually, my signature is my favorite still from the film.
the_real_linda
10-19-2007, 03:19 PM
loves it :D :D
runchuckrun
10-19-2007, 07:02 PM
I've only watched it for the first time about a week ago, but I really enjoyed Suspiria. I think Argento did a great job on it. So much so, I ordered Deep Red and Inferno from Amazon today! :D
missmacabre
10-19-2007, 07:31 PM
I'm an artsy kinda gal so I loved it. Some of the gore is pretty cheesy but I think it was wonderful.
alkytrio666
10-19-2007, 07:36 PM
I've only watched it for the first time about a week ago, but I really enjoyed Suspiria. I think Argento did a great job on it. So much so, I ordered Deep Red and Inferno from Amazon today! :D
Deep Red is Argento's masterpiece, and one of my favorite films to boot. Inferno ain't bad, either.
Roderick Usher
10-19-2007, 08:06 PM
It's like a nightmare version of Snow White...and one of the last films shot in three-strip technicolor.
The Vault of Horror
10-20-2007, 11:05 AM
Great horror flick, very well made. The music, as many have said, adds a lot to it. It also has my all-time favorite horror trap, involving razor wire-anyone who's seen it knows what I'm talking about.
swiss tony
10-21-2007, 09:11 AM
its one of the greats but only in the minds of horror afficionados. visually stunning with a great story but the kills are the thing that stand out for me. when you see the first kill you'll be bowled over. the movie is pure argento so if you like his other stuff you'll be in heaven.
runchuckrun
10-24-2007, 08:00 AM
Deep Red is Argento's masterpiece, and one of my favorite films to boot. Inferno ain't bad, either.
I watched Deep Red for the first time last night and it was great! I found it to be much creepier than Suspiria. The "discovered" room and that robot-doll scene actually gave me a chill.
The acting was great, as was the visual imagery. I can see why these films by Argento are held in such high regard.
alkytrio666
10-24-2007, 09:32 AM
Glad to hear you liked it! The puppet scene always makes me wonder if it was the inspiration for Saw...
tom smud
10-24-2007, 02:33 PM
some fans view suspiria as being a "giallo"
i once read a giallo as being " a murder mystery done in the style of a horror film"
given that ; i think of suspiria as being a" horror film "done in the style of a "giallo "
[if that makes any sence]
alkytrio666
10-24-2007, 02:46 PM
some fans view suspiria as being a "giallo"
i once read a giallo as being " a murder mystery done in the style of a horror film"
given that ; i think of suspiria as being a" horror film "done in the style of a "giallo "
[if that makes any sence]
No; I consider giallo to be a subgenre of both the horror genre and the mystery genre, but they're almost always heavily horror-themed.
tom smud
10-24-2007, 03:19 PM
No; I consider giallo to be a subgenre of both the horror genre and the mystery genre, but they're almost always heavily horror-themed.
no;giallo's themes are murder mystries.......their presentation is horror
alkytrio666
10-24-2007, 04:23 PM
no;giallo's themes are murder mystries.......their presentation is horror
I would consider it a sub-genre of horror in which plots which would usually be considered terror stories are presented ina a more organized, murder-mystery form.
swiss tony
10-25-2007, 03:33 PM
yeah they are murder mysteries albeit extremely violent murder mysteries. i know a lot of you already know this but for those that don't; the popular italian best selling murder mystery novels of the 50's and 60's (i think) were predominantly published with yellow covers. the subsequent fad for italian directors to make movies in the style of these books needed a name. hence, the italian word for yellow was employed. so, by definition a giallo can only be murder mystery. just cause argento, for example, makes a movie, doesn't mean it has to fall into that category, it could be horror. basically, if the movie flows like ruth rendell but with extremely violent murders its giallo. horror and giallo are mutually exclusive. IMO. almost forgot, suspiria is a horror, tenebrae isn't
tom smud
10-25-2007, 03:57 PM
i think giallos are a beautifully unique form of movie making
i wouldnt like to call it a "sub-genre"
it would be like calling "rock and roll" a sub-genre of "blues ","skiffle",and"country"
by the way ,we seemed to have kept the "rock"element ...wat happened to "roll" music ?
tom smud
10-25-2007, 04:54 PM
yeah they are murder mysteries albeit extremely violent murder mysteries. i know a lot of you already know this but for those that don't; the popular italian best selling murder mystery novels of the 50's and 60's (i think) were predominantly published with yellow covers. the subsequent fad for italian directors to make movies in the style of these books needed a name. hence, the italian word for yellow was employed. so, by definition a giallo can only be murder mystery. just cause argento, for example, makes a movie, doesn't mean it has to fall into that category, it could be horror. basically, if the movie flows like ruth rendell but with extremely violent murders its giallo. horror and giallo are mutually exclusive. IMO. almost forgot, suspiria is a horror, tenebrae isn't
just take this as a bit of flippant rhetoric............................but.....get a 70 year old ruth rendall lovin' granny...stick her in front of tenebrae and tell me she wouldnt be HORRORFIED !
alkytrio666
10-26-2007, 05:41 AM
i think giallos are a beautifully unique form of movie making
i wouldnt like to call it a "sub-genre"
it would be like calling "rock and roll" a sub-genre of "blues ","skiffle",and"country"
by the way ,we seemed to have kept the "rock"element ...wat happened to "roll" music ?
It's actually not like that at all. Horror is a genre that has lasted over 100 years, branching all sorts of different subgenres, like crime horror (Silence of the Lambs), slasher horror (Halloween), etc.
Giallo predominantly lasted for about 15 years, and was spawned off of the mystery genre and the horror genre. How can you call that a genre? It fits perfectly into the category of "subgenre".
tom smud
10-26-2007, 07:52 AM
good point !
swiss tony
10-26-2007, 02:59 PM
just take this as a bit of flippant rhetoric............................but.....get a 70 year old ruth rendall lovin' granny...stick her in front of tenebrae and tell me she wouldnt be HORRORFIED !
nice! that is one social experiment i'd pay to see :)
tom smud
10-26-2007, 07:28 PM
nice! that is one social experiment i'd pay to see :)\
lol lol lol