THIS was the movie I had heard such great things about??

I think that the posters here praising any aspect of this movie, are insane.

But, that's just MY opinion.

it's not that this film hasn't dated well, it's that the audience for it has shrunk. this is Argento's ode to not only Bava, but surrealism and EC-style comics. if you have no idea what I just said, than you won't like the film, simple as that. of all of Argento's films, this one truly stands alone (even though it shares aspects with a lot of his films).

the audience today IS more prone to video game horror films like the stuff RZ directs. these films feature more intense torture and killings, action, sex, and MTV-style editing with RZ/MTV-style music on top of it all. if that's what you're used to, you have to acclimate to these older films... or not!

same here, was boring as hell

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TZTM---The Jews don't own everything, the Arabs won't let them.

So you have bad taste, why tell the rest of us.

It's a lot of style over substance. Great score(for the most part, though it was slightly abused at times) and surreal nightmare/dream-like visuals. But other than that it's a weak script with pretty awful acting and a meh story that drags. Definitely an acquired taste, something I'd watch when stoned off my arse.

“I gave up after half an hour”

Then I stopped reading.

Back in 2001, the video game Silent Hill 2 released and I was obsessed with it. It's a horror game, very influenced by the Japanese horror boom in the late 1990s. Cure, Ringu, etc. It's a very creepy and scary game. Right after it came out there was an interview with the creators, and they asked the director what the scariest movie he ever saw was. He said Suspiria. So I ran out and bought it on DVD. I knew absolutely nothing about it, went in completely cold and blind.

I thought it was a joke. Silly, wacky, absurd, and not scary in the slightest. Honestly assumed the SH2 director had to have been trolling.

In years since, I've checked out more Dario Argento movies... Inferno, Phenomenon, Crystal Plumage, maybe a couple of others. He's not my favorite, but I can see how his stuff is an acquired taste. A Silent Hill 2 remake just released and it's great, so I felt like giving Suspiria another go, I'd long forgotten 90% of it. (I remembered someone turning a blue flower to open a secret door, that's so straight out of the Resident Evil/Silent Hill play book.) I was able to appreciate it more, knowing what I was going into this time. Maybe the 4K helps, I don't recall it being so dazzling to look at. Jessica Harper bugs, she's such a boring, icy little robot. Overall I have no clue how anybody could possibly take Suspiria seriously. I had no idea it was considered "highly rated," I've never heard anyone mention it outside of that old interview.