Suspiria - Japan
Suzy Banyon, a young American ballet dancer, arrives one stormy night at the Tanz Akademie in Freiburg, only to be refused admission. She encounters a student at the entrance, Pat, running away distressed & mumbling, who that night is brutally murdered.
When Suzy arrives at the school the next day, the head teacher Miss Blanc & instructress Miss Tanner are being questioned by police. After she has a mysterious fainting spell in class, Suzy is ordered to stay in the school. Becoming increasingly suspicious of the teachers, especially after the death of the academy pianist, Suzy & another pupil, Sara, decide to investigate.
Suzy however, has been drugged, & Sara is forced to carry out the search alone; she is savagely attacked & has her throat cut whilst trying to escape from a room full of piano wire. Misses Blanc & Tanner explain that she has left the school but Suzy is unconvinced & consults Sara’s psychiatrist, Frank; with the help of an expert, Professor Milius, he explains that the academy was formerly the home of a famous witch, Helena Marcos, "The Black Widow", & her coven.
Exploring the academy at night, Suzy remembers Pat’s mutterings about an Iris, She twists the decorative Iris on the wall of Miss Blanc’s study, which leads to hidden rooms were the coven, now being conducted by the two teachers plan to have her killed.
When Suzy arrives at the school the next day, the head teacher Miss Blanc & instructress Miss Tanner are being questioned by police. After she has a mysterious fainting spell in class, Suzy is ordered to stay in the school. Becoming increasingly suspicious of the teachers, especially after the death of the academy pianist, Suzy & another pupil, Sara, decide to investigate.
Suzy however, has been drugged, & Sara is forced to carry out the search alone; she is savagely attacked & has her throat cut whilst trying to escape from a room full of piano wire. Misses Blanc & Tanner explain that she has left the school but Suzy is unconvinced & consults Sara’s psychiatrist, Frank; with the help of an expert, Professor Milius, he explains that the academy was formerly the home of a famous witch, Helena Marcos, "The Black Widow", & her coven.
Exploring the academy at night, Suzy remembers Pat’s mutterings about an Iris, She twists the decorative Iris on the wall of Miss Blanc’s study, which leads to hidden rooms were the coven, now being conducted by the two teachers plan to have her killed.