By Jacob Oller · Published on October 10th, 2017
Dario Argento‘s giallo classic Suspiria is a bloody coloring book that drenches the audience in saturated colors and over-the-top emotion. In keeping with Italian giallo tradition, Argento makes everything larger than life. The blood, the sets, the sounds – everything has the exaggerated proportions of a dream.
Nightmares and the uncanny are often interlinked, drawing fear from the too-familiar or the just-off. Suspiria supplements that feeling with buckets of technicolor madness.
Essayist Matt Draper’s new video highlights some of Argento’s most telling techniques that created such a lasting and influential film.
Related Topics: Dario Argento, giallo, Horror, Video
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