Argento's ‘Suspiria’ (1977), a compendium of horror filmmaking analysis through ‘Mise-en-scene’ and narrative aspects

This essay will examine the mise-en-scene of Dario Argento's film ‘Suspiria’ (1977) along with discussion into the film's genre and its importance as a genre challenging and intersecting film in the postmodern sphere of horror filmmaking. Horror films contain certain qualities that are not expressed in other genres or are only expressed to their full potential within the genre of horror. I wish to look at some of these qualities and discuss their potency within a microcosm in a case study of ‘Suspiria’ (1977), a film which I would argue, breaks the boundaries of, but also supplements and uplifts the classic tenets of the horror genre. I wish to look at the influences, ideas and interesting filmmaking techniques devised within ‘Suspiria’ and relate it to the wider context of film and theory.