Argento's best known film is probably his most expressive. This is a gem to look at with all its lush Italian colors seeping out like a blood covered canvas.
If you are looking for a horror film for intellectuals, this isn't it, but if you want something that will definitely impress you, you've found it.
It concerns an old dance company in Freiburg Germany that is headed up by an old witch matriarch who leads the coven in diabolical methods.
An unsuspecting student, played wonderfully by Jessica Harper, finds herself piecing together a mystery when she arrives at the school in one of the most enigmatic and beautiful commencements of a film to date.
Argento has music, colors, and sounds reverberate like an opera for our eyes to dazzle. He scares us with the rain, the closing of an automatic airport door, and loose tree branches that resemble evil lurking beings. This is one powerful moment.
From then on, subtle hints are explored, the supernatural, science, one's faith.
Never can we guess what is truly hiding at the academy. One scene of the dance students in the hall is superbly done with loud music, hideous heckling demonic shrieks and strange appearances; this is fantastic eye candy!
If you are looking for a horror film for intellectuals, this isn't it, but if you want something that will definitely impress you, you've found it.
It concerns an old dance company in Freiburg Germany that is headed up by an old witch matriarch who leads the coven in diabolical methods.
An unsuspecting student, played wonderfully by Jessica Harper, finds herself piecing together a mystery when she arrives at the school in one of the most enigmatic and beautiful commencements of a film to date.
Argento has music, colors, and sounds reverberate like an opera for our eyes to dazzle. He scares us with the rain, the closing of an automatic airport door, and loose tree branches that resemble evil lurking beings. This is one powerful moment.
From then on, subtle hints are explored, the supernatural, science, one's faith.
Never can we guess what is truly hiding at the academy. One scene of the dance students in the hall is superbly done with loud music, hideous heckling demonic shrieks and strange appearances; this is fantastic eye candy!