Europe Endless - Horror: Suspiria (Dir Dario Argento, 1h39m, 1977)
1977, like much of the latter half of the 1970s, shorn of the Hayes Code and before the era of the "video nasty", is something of a golden decade for horror; the following year would bring the horror main course with Halloween, Dawn of the Dead and Invasion of the Body Snatchers , together with the cult Piranha, Faces of Death and The Fury. The hors d'oeuvres in 1976, would be none less than The Omen , Carrie and The Tenant. 1977's offerings are an altogether stranger bunch, a group of films that seem to be driven as much by aesthetic and tone as genuine scares. These include cult Japanese oddity Hausu , Lynch's Eraserhead , Cronenberg's Rabid , and the queasy grit of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes. Of course, our eyes cannot help but be drawn to a plate slick with giallo gore, and one film above all from the year has drawn attention, and built its own reputation, over the last half-century. This is Dario Argento's visual...
