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The Nextlander Watchcast 064: Suspiria (1977) (Patreon)

Published:
2023-10-16 22:10:22
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2023-10-23 22:01:59
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2026-06
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Our journey through international horror takes us out of English-speaking territory and into English-dubbed territory, as we cross the border into Italy for Dario Argento's supernatural classic, Suspiria!

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 64: Suspiria (1977)(00:00:32) - Intro.(00:03:45) - Initial impressions of our film this week: Suspiria! And discussion of what makes a giallo film (and if this is even one of them).(00:08:00) - A little Q&A at the top. (00:14:19) - More production notes.(00:21:54) - Argento's Three Mothers trilogy and some additional notes about Italian films of the time.(00:26:45) - Opening the movie with a bang.(00:35:10) - Break!(00:35:50) - We're back, and it's time to go to school.(00:39:25) - A few plot threads that don't seem to go anywhere.(00:42:43) - Our incredibly peculiar staff.(00:48:07) - Say goodbye to the piano man.(00:52:18) - The inexplicable maggots. And oh, hi Mark.(00:54:35) - Using every red gel in Italy, and here comes The Directress.(00:58:51) - It's going to take two whole professors to explain this one.(01:04:06) - Sara's incredible death.(01:10:43) - Getting to the endgame (and a SPOILER for the Suspiria remake).(01:13:16) - END OF SPOILERS. We're on to the subject of toilet fish and rubber bats.(01:16:27) - All occult tunnels lead to pissed off old witches.(01:22:47) - And that's a wrap! Final thoughts, and favorite rooms.(01:24:52) - Some additional potential SPOILERS for the remake.(01:27:35) - END OF REMAKE DISCUSSION.(01:29:01) - Outro.

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Alasdair Duncan

I know it's almost heretical, but I way prefer the the remake over the original. But I think that's more because I don't like giallo films in general.

Michael Polston

This movie's biggest failing is the extremely poor sound mix. The music makes it hard to watch because it's too overpowering and unbalanced. Defenders of the movie will say "it's supposed to be that way" but I disagree. And along similar lines, I'm a musician a music nerd and have been in two prog bands in my life, and literally nobody in any of those bands, including me, were familiar with Goblin for any other reason than the Suspiria soundtrack. I do think they're a good band but it's a rare case where movie nerds know more about them than music nerds.

Michael Polston

I would love a watchcast month where we get the 2018 version and The Raid 2, as well as a few other follow ups or sequels or remakes of things they've already covered.

Yorick

Weird. Paramount plus has a shorter cut of the movie. The scene where the piano player gets fired wasn’t in the version. I was really confused when you were describing that scene

WulfBane

I saw that too. It was only listed as 93 min. vs the 99 min as listed by Wikipedia. Looking from the wikipedia article, I would say the Paramount plus is based on the original US release "R-rated" cut. "The original American prints were cut by a total of eight minutes in order for the film to pass with an R-rating." I admit I was doing a bit of multitasking when I watched it and didn't really remember the intro narration played in the podcast. I did see the pianist being attacked by his dog and some of the more hokey looking "there is a dog snout near a neck intercut with a dog jumping up at the actor" but I could understand the simulated flesh tearing bits being censored out.

WulfBane

There certainly seems to be something about the fake blood in some 70's horror movies that just seems extra bright and vibrant. I sometimes wonder if it's being made extra fake looking because they're concerned about a more realistic version would get censored. Or maybe realistic colored on set would turn too dark on film? I know that I've seen the heavily edited 1973 Vault of Horror where it would just take still images from certain scenes in place of the full scene and even black out parts of those including the infamous mostly blacked out still what SHOULD be a body with a keg tap in the neck (he was being used to serve drinks to vampires)

Paul Fierce

Excited to listen to this episode! I love this movie and the 2018 remake is one of my fav recent movies. I highly recommend at least Alex watch it if not all of them, though i don't think it's in Brad or Vinny's wheelhouse. edit: after listening to the episode i highly recommend all 3 guys watch the remake! If not for an episode then just on their own

Jason Wineinger

Saw this movie for the first time in theaters with Goblin doing a live performance of the music, felt like the best way I could've experienced that film.