Dario Argento’s Suspiria

Suspiria is an Italian horror movie released in 1977 about Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper,) an American ballet dancer who enrolls at a famous ballet school in Europe only to discover it is run by a coven of witches. It is classified as being Dario Argento´s finest work, and if memory serves me right, the very first horror movie I ever saw on the big screen. I was 8 years old. The film opens with Suzy arriving at the school via cab on a very stormy... [Read More...]

The Battle of B: Rosemary’s Baby vs. It’s Alive!

Rosemary's Baby . Rosemary's Baby = Roman Polanski's first American feature film, released the year of my birth (an event all in itself that would make the year go down in history) that was based on Ira Levin's book of the same title released in 1967. This psychological horror flick features Mia Farrow as Rosemary, who along with her husband Guy, move into a New York apartment building that seems to be inhibited mostly by the elderly. One elderly... [Read More...]