Suspiria (1977)

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An American dancer in Germany finds out she is being trained by a coven of witches.


Genre

Horror, Supernatural

Characters/Groups

Suzy Bannion - Jessica Harper

Sara - Stefania Casini

Daniel - Flavio Bucci

Mark - Miguel Bose

Olga - Barbara Magnolfi

Sonia - Susanna Javicoli

Pat Hingle - Eva Axen

Professor Milius - Rudolf Schundler

Dr. Frank Mandel - Udo Kier

Miss Tanner - Alida Valli

Madame Blanc - Joan Bennett

Teacher - Margherita Horowitz

Albert - Jacopo Mariani

Taxi Driver - Fulvio Mingozzi

Cook - Franca Scagnetti

Professor Verdegast - Renato Scarpa

2nd Cook - Serafina Scorcelletti

Pavlos - Giuseppe Transocchi

Caroline - Renata Zamengo

Dancers - Alessandra Capozzi, Salvatore Capozzi, Diana Ferrara, Cristina Latini, Alfredo Raino' and Claudia Zaccari

Helena Markos - Lela Svasta

Police Inspector - Giovanni Di Bernardo

Character thumbnails with links to profiles

Detailed Synopsis

"Suzy Bannion decided to perfect her ballet studies in the most famous school of dance in Europe. She chose the celebrated Academy of Freiburg. One day at 9:00 in the morning, she left the Kennedy Airport in New York, and arrived in Germany at 10:40 p.m. local time."

Suzy walks outside of the airport into a storm. She gets a ride from Taxi Driver (Suspiria)|Taxi Driver who takes her to the Academy of Freiburg. When she arrives, Pat Hingle is standing with the door open yelling at someone inside, before running away. Suzy tries to get inside and the person inside tells her to go away. She gets back into the taxi and sees Pat running in the woods. Pat goes to the apartment complex of Sonia, who tells her she can stay for as long as she wants. Pat says she is leaving in the morning and says it would be useless to explain why she is leaving the school. As Pat is staring out the window, she sees a pair of eyes staring back at her. An arm breaks into the room from the window and shoves Pat's head through the window. Sonia goes to the neighbor's apartment and asks for help as Pat is stabbed with a knife repeatedly. Her killer then ties a rope around her neck and shoves her through the glass ceiling towards the front entrance of the apartment and Sonia is Sonia is killed when a piece of glass and building stab her through the chest and face. Daniel and his seeing eye dog walk walk toward the academy and Daniel leaves his dog outside. Suzy walks inside as Miss Tanner says hello to Daniel. She sees Suzy and tells her she expected her last evening and Suzy explains what happened the night before. Miss Tanner tells Suzy she will be staying with Olga (Suspriria)|Olga until her room is ready and introduces Suzy to Madame Blanc who is surrounded by police inpsectors. Madame Blanc walks over and introduces herself and then tells Suzy about Pat, who she says was expelled the day before, was murdered by someone, and that is why the inspectors are there. Suzy is taken on a tour of the academy by Miss Tanner. A Police Inspector confirms with Madame Blanc what time Pat left the academy and Suzy overhears and confirms that is when she saw Pat leave. Miss Tanner introduces Suzy to Pavlos and then takes Suzy into the locker room. tells Miss Tanner she has something to tell her. Miss Tanner introduces Suzy to the other dancers and mention other students are Americans, including Miriam. Olga makes fun of snitching to Miss Tanner and then introduces herself to Suzy. A Dancers (Suspiria)|Dancer offers to sell Suzy shoes if she wants to keep them, but Suzy says she would rather just borrow shoes for the day. Suzy meets Sara (Suspiria)|Sara. Olga walks up to them and tells them she heard the names that start with the letter is the names of snakes. That evening, Olga tells Suzy after she finishes the academy she has an offer at the State School of Ballet in Geneva. Mark (Suspiria)|Mark brings Suzy's luggage to Olga's apartment. Olga gets off the phone and tells Suzy, Pat liked Mark, and Pat deserved to be kicked out. The next day in class, the Dancers go through their routines. Madame Blanc walks in with Teacher (Suspiria)|Teacher and tells Suzy they have her room ready. Suzy tells her she would rather stay at Olga's which upsets Madame Blanc. As she is leaving the practice area, Suzy passes by Cook and Albert, who stare at her intensely.