The Classic Horror Flick The Halloween Listicles Forgot

Ballet has never been so terrifying.

It seems customary towards the end of October to publish listicles of “best horror movies of all time”. Although such articles catalogue many fantastic titles (The Shining, Rosemary’s Baby), they seem to be painfully aware of each other, the same tired titles appearing on list after list.

The one film that’s routinely overlooked is Suspiria (Latin for sighs), a 1977 art house classic, and one of the best examples of the genre. It’s certainly the most visually enticing. Horror films err on the side of monochromatic, but Susperia went in the opposite direction: it over-saturated the screen with wild hues of what was by the end of the 1970's the dying technology of technicolor. The reds, purples, golds give the movie an eerie, supernatural feel, infusing it with a deeper meaning.

The film was directed by an Italian filmmaker Dario Argento. Argento himself wrote the score with the prog rock band Goblin (not unlike the director John Carpenter composing the music for his horror film…