Not exact matches
But the band's best - known work came in collaboration with
giallo king Dario Argento, and while we
love their droney, synth - tastic «Tenebrae» work (sampled by French electro titans Justice for their track «Phantom»), their finest hour is unquestionably via Argento's best
film «Suspiria,» about an American ballerina (Jessica Harper) tormented by a witch's coven.
Borrowing from Takashi Miike's Audition (seminal J Horror
film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore
film and boy did he deliver with what comes across as a Cronenberg's Crash like
love story featured in hotel room spaces rather than car wreckage and works as an homage to a plethora of influential filmmakers including De Palma and the
Giallo set.
As seemed to be the convention for Italian thrillers for the next twenty years, Bava had an American actor playing the
love interest who may or may not be involved in a crime that veers, at the
film's precise midpoint, towards a series of implausible, ridiculous twists endemic of a standard
giallo.