SUSPIRIA

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Showings

Chauncey -Theater 1 Sat, Oct 28, 2023 7:00 PM
Series Info
Series:Pride at FilmScene
Scream, Queen!
Film Info
Director:Dario Argento
Featuring:Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
Runtime:92 minutes
Rating:R
Year Released:1977
Format:DCP
Production Country:Italy
Language:Italian
Russian
English
German
Latin

Description

Presented in partnership with Iowa City Pride and the University of Iowa

"The movie's sheer exuberance is the cinematic equivalent of a blood transfusion."—Adam Nayman, The Ringer

"A genre classic, as well as its still-active director’s best film."—Dennis Harvey, 48 Hills

Suzy (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend ballet school. She arrives on a stormy evening to find no one there to let her in; from here, things only become stranger. A fleeing student is later murdered in her apartment, Suzy hears strange noises in the night, and a general sense of disorientation and illness permeates the atmosphere. As more dancers begin to die mysteriously, Suzy is forced to reckon with the terrifying secret history of the place.