DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
"The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 80."—newspaper ad for Suspiria. Don't believe it. The last 12 minutes of this flick features the crucifixion of a young woman and the brutal knife slashing of a very old woman that makes the shower scene in Psycho look like a commercial for personal sized Ivory.
DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
Double Feature!
Edouard Dauphin
"The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 80."—newspaper ad for Suspiria.
Don't believe it. The last 12 minutes of this flick features the crucifixion of a young woman and the brutal knife slashing of a very old woman that makes the shower scene in Psycho look like a commercial for personal sized Ivory.
Because Suspiria means to be horrible and succeeds in a theatreclearing way. When this gore-athon hit the Times Square houses, people were exiting the premises before the first reel was over. And why.not? Who wants an opening segment showing an • innocent ballerina getting dragged through broken glass, then strung up in bloody close-up from a chandelier?
I do, that's who! And so do you. Especially since this dumb girl can't even speak English!
Nobody in this picture can speak English. Except Joan Bennett and someone called Jessica Harper, who probablyFiolds the ingenue s world record for rolling her eyeballs.