Suspira is a horror film about witchcraft. It starts off with the main character touching down in Germany to attend a dance school that teaches Ballet. As Suzy pulls up to the housing that she would be staying at, a young lady who we learn name is Pat is see exiting the building scared and repeating words that we later learn are significant. Suzy is not able to enter the building so leaves and the setting switches to Pat and her friend who is questioning Pat about what happened to her and she answers that her friend would not understand and locks the door on her friend who leaves the room. We witness the murder of Pat who was stabbed multiple times and was left hanging as the ceiling glass shatters which ends up killing Pat’s friend who was yelling for help. Suzy returns the dance building and is welcomed in. They wanted to control Suzy but realized that she was hard to control because she was so strong-minded and spoke up for herself. That motivated the witches to want to keep an eye on her. She was living with a friend but they put a spell on her that made her sick and they gave her no choice but to stay in the room that they provided for her and brought all her belongings. They were putting something in Suzy food to make her sleepy. Her friend Sara was skeptical about what was going on in the building and got herself killed exploring the building. Suzy one day decided to find out what was going on and ended up finding the hidden place and killing the witch and leaving the building and we watched the place explode. The Witches were plotting to kill Suzy so she got out in time.

The readings that were assigned to the movie were very much related to the movie.In the reading “Expressionist Use of Colour Palette and Set Design in Dario Argento’s Suspiria” we learn about the use of the colors blue red and yellow nad how a specific camera was used to capture the visuals that we saw. Two types of color palettes were used and they are a realistic one and a gothic palette. The realistic palettes are used in more common settings like the airport and convention center. The more gothic setting, which was also talked about in the A (Sadistic) Night at the Opera reading, is when we see the black magic happening. In the opera reading it talks about the New gothic era emerging and movies that came out after the release of the film and how cheap impersonations of German movies were being released also. In the reading Dario Argento Suspiria, we just get a rundown of the movie and get a better understanding of why things happen the way it does. The part of the film that stood out to me the most was the maggots and how the dog was under a spell and killed his blind owner that plays the piano so well.