Suspiria (1977)
Director: Dario Argento
Jessica Harper (Stardust Memories) plays a ballerina who's going to an Italian ballet school, which turns out to be a coven of witches. It's kind of like a primary-color assault of your senses. It has one of the loudest soundtracks I've ever heard. It's prog-rock by this band Goblin, and it's almost like if the Mars Volta or Radiohead at their noisiest were doing the film soundtrack — this enormous freakout jam. The sets and the colors were really vivid: reds and blues and greens, shot on old Technicolor stock. Argento apparently originally wanted the film to be with 12-year-old girls, but the producer said no. [Laughs] So Argento said, ''Okay, we'll use 20-year-old girls and make the sets bigger. [Laughs] So all the sets are massive; Harper is reaching up to doorknobs. It's an absolutely crazy film.
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