The movie Suspiria really had an effect of on me. Yes it was cheesey and its age showed in the acting, dialogue, and effects. But movies with bad effects are looked at with a more forgiving attitude.
Suspiria was very interesting we follow a character who's immediately thrown into an unfamiliar place where everything is pretty strange so she doesn't want to make any assumption on the strange happenings at first. I also like that this movie had so many female characters. Allowing the audience to appreciated a lot of different personality from the women. Sometimes in film we get the opposite problem, there'll only be one female character. And writers try to make up for it by throwing every type of female personality into just one person. So the writing isn't as entertaining. But in Suspiria we got a lot of different personalities. Suspiria as a horror is also a very 'nervous' movie. It will avoid outright jumpscares but make things gradually uncomfortable like with the maggots in the building.
Women are tied very closely with the witch genre. Sometimes I wonder how this happened. Historically, witch hunts targeted males and females. Men were also called witches. During the salem with trials men were also persecuted. It seems that female witches are strongest in story telling though. In fairy tales witches are always female. Like Ursula the Sea-Witch or Baba Yaga. I think this is because as people over the years we have and expectations of women to act kind and selfless. Which is silly anybody could be selfless or selfish, but when we see a female character act cruelly especially an older one (who's supposed to be sweet and motherly) people think it's unnatural.
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