name	Suspiria
director	Dario Argento
producer	Claudio Argento
writer	Dario ArgentoDaria Nicolodi
starring	Jessica HarperStefania CasiniFlavio BucciMiguel BoséAlida ValliJoan Bennett
music	GoblinDario Argento
cinematography	Luciano Tovoli
editing	Franco Fraticelli
distributor	Blue Underground (DVD)Nouveaux PicturesCine-Excess
released
runtime	92 minutes98 minutes ()
country
language	Italian
gross	ITL1,430,000,000 (US$1,051,450)$3,902,267 }}

''Suspiria'' is a 1977 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Daria Nicolodi. The film follows an American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious dance academy in Germany, only to discover that it is controlled by a coven of witches. The film's score was performed by Goblin. The stars are Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci and Miguel Bosé. It was also one of the final feature films to be processed in the Italian processing plant of Technicolor before it was closed. ''Suspiria'' is the first of the trilogy Argento refers to as "''The Three Mothers''", followed by ''Inferno'' and ''The Mother of Tears''.

The film has become one of Argento's most successful feature films, receiving critical acclaim for its visual and stylistic performance, outstanding colors, and soundtrack. It has been nominated for two Saturn Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Joan Bennett in 1978 and Best DVD Classic Film Release in 2002. The film has since become a cult classic.

Plot

An American ballet student, Suzy Banyon (Jessica Harper), arrives from her flight in Munich, Germany on a stormy night to enroll in a prestigious dance academy in Freiburg. After Suzy is unable to gain access into the academy, she decides to spend the night around town.

Meanwhile, Pat Hingle (Eva Axén) (a former student who is expelled from the academy and seen leaving the academy in a somewhat frightened mood by Suzy) finds refuge at a friend's house in town. After Pat locks herself inside of the house's bathroom, a mysterious arm smothers Pat against the glass and repeatedly stabs her with a large knife and then graphically disembowels her. Her friend overhears her screaming and tries to scream for help, although nobody replies. Pat is then bound with a cord before she is hanged in mid-air after crashing through a large stained-glass ceiling. Her friend is killed directly below by the falling glass and metal.

Upon Suzy's arrival at the academy the next morning, she is introduced to Madame Blanc (Joan Bennett) and Miss Tanner (Alida Valli). Suzy overhears an ongoing conversation about Pat's murder between a group of people, and recalls that she witnessed Pat leaving the academy the previous night. In the academy Suzy meets the stranger blind pianist Daniel (Flavio Bucci), the gruff butler Pablo (Giuseppe Transocchi) and the macabre nephew's Madame Blanc, Albert (Jacopo Mariani). After encountering these eccentric individuals, is then escorted to the ballet student's locker room, where she meets Sarah (Stefania Casini) and Olga (Barbara Magnolfi), with whom she lives off-campus. The following morning, Blanc offers Suzy a dormitory room, but she declines Blanc's offer. After a strange encounter with the academy's cook (Franca Scagnetti), Suzy seemingly struggles before fainting during a lesson. Later that night, Suzy awakens to discover that she has been moved into a dormitory room against her wishes. The doctors then tell Suzy that she is to be "medicated" with a glass of wine daily. Suzy befriends Sarah after the two are roomed together. As Suzy and the rest of the students prepare for dinner, hundreds of maggots appear to fall from the ceiling due to spoiled food boxed in the attic. The girls are then ordered to sleep in the practice hall overnight. During the night, Sarah identifies a distinctive whistling snore as that of the school's director, who is not due to return to the academy for several weeks.

The next morning, Tanner orders Daniel to leave the academy immediately after his guide dog bites Albert. Later that night, Sarah overhears the teacher's footsteps and begins to count them whilst Suzy becomes irresistibly drowsy and falls asleep. Meanwhile, while Daniel and his guide dog cross a plaza within the city, Daniel senses a strange presence. Suddenly, his seemingly calm dog lunges at Daniel and tears his throat out, killing him. The next day, Suzy recalls the words "iris" and "secret" from Pat's mumbling before leaving the academy. Later that night, Suzy and Sarah go for a swim while Sarah reveals to Suzy that she and Pat were close friends, and recalls that Pat had been "talking strangely for some time". As the two girls search for Pat's notes in Sarah's room, they appear to be stolen. Suzy suddenly becomes drowsy and falls asleep before Sarah flees to the attic after hearing approaching footsteps. Sarah goes on a lengthy chase away from an unseen pursuer and, thinking she will be able to escape through a window into another room, falls into a huge pile of barbed wire. Becoming entangled, she struggles in anguish until her attacker appears and slits her throat.

The following morning, Blanc and Tanner inform Suzy that Sarah is nowhere to be found and that her room is entirely empty. Suzy then meets one of Sarah's acquaintances, a psychologist named Dr. Mandel (Udo Kier), who explains that the academy was founded by Helena Markos, a cruel Greek émigré who was widely believed to be a witch. Dr. Mandel's colleague, Professor Millus, then tells Suzy that a coven can only survive with their queen. Upon Suzy's return to the academy that night, she discovers that all of the students have gone to the theater. After becoming suspicious of her prescribed glass of wine, she pours it down the sink. She then overhears the footsteps Sarah identified before, and follows them to Blanc's office. She suddenly recalls Pat's mumbling after discovering irises painted all over the walls of Blanc's office. After entering a hidden passage, she discovers Blanc, Tanner and the staff forming a ritual where they plot Suzy's death. Unseen, Suzy then turns to find Sarah's body nailed to a coffin.

Frightened, Suzy then sneaks into another room, where she accidentally awakens a shadowy figure who reveals herself as Helena Markos. An ancient, hideous witch, Helena begins to taunt Suzy, revealing that Madame Blanc, Miss Tanner, some students and the rest of the staff are members of her coven and they have happily participated or used their witchcraft in the brutal murders. Helena then orders Sarah's nearby corpse to rise from the dead to murder Suzy. Suzy then stabs Helena with one of the room's decorative knives, which appears to kill her (she fades from view screaming) and Sarah's reanimated corpse. Helena's demise seems to cause a sudden fire. As the academy is slowly destroyed with the coven inside, Suzy manages to escape before the entire building catches on fire. The screaming of the coven of witches as they die is heard over the pulsating soundtrack.

Cast

Jessica Harper as Suzy Banyon

Stefania Casini as Sarah

Flavio Bucci as Daniel

Miguel Bosé as Mark

Joan Bennett as Madame Blanc

Alida Valli as Miss. Tanner

Barbara Magnolfi as Olga

Susanna Javicoli as Sonia

Eva Axén as Pat

Rudolf Schundler as Prof. Milius

Udo Kier as Dr. Frank Mandel

Margherita Horowitz as Teacher

Jacopo Mariani as Albert

Fulvio Mingozzi as Taxi Driver

Franca Scagnetti as Cook

Production

''Suspiria'' is noteworthy for several stylistic flourishes that have become Argento trademarks. The film was made with anamorphic lenses. The production design and cinematography emphasize vivid primary colors, particularly red, creating a deliberately unrealistic, nightmarish setting, emphasized by the use of imbibition Technicolor prints. The imbibition process, used for ''The Wizard of Oz'' and ''Gone with the Wind'', is much more vivid in its color rendition than emulsion-based release prints, therefore enhancing the nightmarish quality of the film.

The title and general concept of "The Three Mothers" came from ''Suspiria de Profundis''. There is a section in ''Suspiria De Profundis'' entitled "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow". The piece asserts that just as there are three Fates and three Graces, there are three Sorrows: "Mater Lacrymarum, Our Lady of Tears", "Mater Suspiriorum, Our Lady of Sighs", and "Mater Tenebrarum, Our Lady of Darkness".

Soundtrack

The Italian rock band Goblin composed most of the film's musical score. Goblin also composed music for several other films by Dario Argento. In the film's opening credits, they are incorrectly referred to as "The Goblins". Like Ennio Morricone's compositions for Sergio Leone, Goblin's score for ''Suspiria'' was created before the film was shot. It has been reused in multiple Hong Kong films, including Yuen Woo-ping's martial arts film ''Dance of the Drunk Mantis'' (1979) and Tsui Hark's horror-comedy ''We Are Going to Eat You'' (1980).

Goblin frontman Claudio Simonetti later formed a heavy metal band, Daemonia. The 2001 Anchor Bay DVD release contains a video of the band playing a reworking of the ''Suspiria'' theme song. The DVD edition also contains the entire original soundtrack as a bonus CD, which is currently out of print in North America.

The main title theme was named as one of the best songs released between 1977 and 1979 in ''The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present''. It has been sampled on the Raekwon and Ghostface Killah song, "Legal Coke" from the R.A.G.U. mix tape. Also sampled by RJD2 for the song, "Weather People off Cage's Album Weather Proof" and by Army of the Pharaohs' song "Swords Drawn". The soundtrack from the film has also been sampled in the cult television series ''Invader Zim''.

Critical reception

The film has received critical acclaim from contemporary critics. According to review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, the film receives a 94% "fresh" rating based on 31 reviews with the consensus "The blood pours freely in Argento's classic '''Suspiria'', a giallo horror as grandiose and glossy as it is gory". Rotten Tomatoes also ranked it #41 on their 2010 Best Horror Movies list. Whilst some critics praise the film's visual performance, outstanding use of color, and soundtrack, others have criticized it for its lack of sense and puzzling storyline.

Janet Maslin of ''The New York Times'' wrote a mixed review, saying the film had "slender charms, though they will most assuredly be lost on viewers who are squeamish." Dave Kehr of the ''Chicago Reader'' gave a positive review, claiming that "Argento works so hard for his effects — throwing around shock cuts, colored lights, and peculiar camera angles — that it would be impolite not to be a little frightened". Although J. Hoberman of ''The Village Voice'' gave a positive review as well, he calls it "a movie that makes sense only to the eye". ''The Village Voice'' ranked ''Suspiria'' #100 on their list of the 100 Greatest Films Made During the 20th Century.

Adam Smith of ''Empire'' magazine awarded the film a perfect score of 5 out of 5, calling it a "perfect antipasto". ''Empire'' magazine also ranked ''Suspiria'' #312 on their list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, as well as #45 on their list of The 100 Best Films of World Cinema. ''TV Guide'' awarded the film 4 stars out of 5, concluding that "Throughout this nerve-wracking journey, Argento's sly gift is to strike when you least expect it, often when the soundtrack grows silent, and always after you've expected the knife blade to plunge in earlier". Keith Breese of FilmCritic.com also awarded the film a perfect score of 5 out of 5 stars, calling it "a wild feast of imagery that has never since been duplicated".

Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews awarded the film a C+, claiming that it "only catches fire when it has run out of imagination to end it in any other way but through a pyrotechnic display". The only negative review was given by David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews, introducing the review by calling it "is a so-called 'classic' horror movie that even critics who ordinarily shun the genre (Leonard Maltin, for one) respect and admire. But one can't help but wonder what all the hoopla is about, as the movie is generally a dull and badly-dated affair" whilst saying that "all the visual artistry in the world can't compensate for a lousy script".

''Entertainment Weekly'' ranked ''Suspiria'' #18 on their list of the 25 Scariest Films of All Time. A poll of critics of ''Total Film'' ranked it #3 on their list of The 50 Greatest Horror Films of All Time. One of the film's sequences were ranked at #24 on Bravo's ''The 100 Scariest Movie Moments''. IGN ranked it #20 on their list of the Top 25 Horror Movies of All Time.

In pop culture

Two bands, a Norwegian thrash metal band and a pioneering mid-1990s U.K. gothic rock band, have named themselves after the film. Several albums have also used the title, including ''Suspiria'' by Darkwell, ''Suspiria'' by Miranda Sex Garden, and ''Suspiria de Profundis'' by Die Form which can also be regarded as inspired by Thomas de Quincey's work of the same title.

Regular Show In the episode "Grave Sights" Mordecai picks a movie called "Libraria" Obvious Parody of Suspiria.

The Smashing Pumpkins used the theme from the film as introductory music on their 2007 tour. The Houston-based Two Star Symphony Orchestra, on their 2004 CD ''Danse Macabre: Constant Companion,'' included a track titled "Goblin Attack" that features a strings rendition of the ''Suspiria'' theme. The track's title appears to be a reference to the Italian rock band Goblin. The 69 Eyes wrote a song 'Suspiria Snow White' on the album ''Back in Blood''.

In books by Simon R. Green, mentions are often made of a "Black Forest Dance Academy" in Germany. It is a place where witches and Satanists gather, and one of the many places that the witch Molly Metcalf ment to get her powers

The film's music has been imitated by various artists, including Ministry's "Psalm 69" from their album ''Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs'', Cage Kennylz's "Weather People", and Atmosphere's "Bird Sings Why the Caged I Know".

In the 2007 film, ''Juno'', the title character mentions ''Suspiria'' during a discussion of horror films with character Mark Loring after she finds a SomethingWeird Video copy of ''The Wizard of Gore''.

In the 2011 episode of ''The Office'', "The Seminar", Gabe Lewis mentions the film as one he wants to watch with Erin Hannon, saying "It pushes all the boundaries. All your preconceived notions about what horror can be come crashing down."

In ''Scream 4'', Charlie (Rory Culkin) mentions ''Suspiria'' while looking through Kirby's (Hayden Panettiere) DVD collection.

Remakes

It was announced through MTV in 2008 that a remake of ''Suspiria'' is in production and will be directed by David Gordon Green, who directed films such as ''Undertow'' and ''Pineapple Express''. The film will be produced by Italian production company First Sun. During August 2008, the Bloody Disgusting website reported that Natalie Portman's and Annette Savitch's Handsome Charlie Films were set to produce the remake and that Portman would play the lead role. The First Sun project was also announced to be produced by Marco Morabito and Luca Guadagnino. After a period of no news in which it was thought that the remake attempt had failed, Green admitted in August 2011 he is again trying to remake the film.

During June 2006, Japanese studio GONZO reportedly announced the production of an anime remake of ''Suspiria'' (サスペリア) is in development, but it has not yet announced a release date for TV broadcast. The anime adaptation will be directed by Yoshimasa Hiraike (''SoltyRei'').

Awards

;Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

1978 Nominated Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress – Joan Bennett

2002 Nominated Saturn Award for Best DVD Classic Film Release

Ranked #45 in ''Empire'' magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010.

References

External links

Mp3 commentary by dvdtimes.co.uk critic Michael Mackenzie

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Birth date	July 19, 1924
Birth name	Martin Patterson Hingle
Birth place	Miami, Florida, United States
Death date	January 03, 2009
Death place	Carolina Beach, North Carolina, United States
Death cause	Myelodysplastic syndrome
Resting place	Cremated, Ashes scattered into the Atlantic Ocean
Nationality	American
Residence	Carolina Beach, North Carolina
Home town	Houston, Texas
Education	University of Texas Radio Broadcasting
Alma mater	Actors Studio
Education	Saluda Elementary School
Notable works	Batman, Hang 'Em High, Splendor in the Grass, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Shaft
Years active	1954–2009
Occupation	Actor
Nationality	American
Spouse	Alyce Faye Dorsey (1947-1972) (divorced),Julie Wright (1979-2009) (his death)
Children	5
Parents	Marvin Louise (nèe Patterson) Hingle,Clarence Martin Hingle }}

Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American actor.

Early life

Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Miami, Florida, the son of Marvin Louise (née Patterson), a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor. Hingle enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December 1941, dropping out of the University of Texas. He served on the destroyer USS ''Marshall'' during World War II. He returned to the University of Texas after the war and earned a degree in radio broadcasting.

Acting career

Traditional roles

Hingle was traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. He was a guest star on the early NBC legal drama ''Justice'', based on case histories of the Legal Aid Society of New York.

Another notable role was as the father of the character played by Warren Beatty in ''Splendor in the Grass'' (1961). He is probably best known in recent times for playing Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film ''Batman'', and its three sequels. Hingle had a long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. Among them are ''Hang 'Em High'' (1968), ''Sudden Impact'' (1983), ''Road To Redemption'' (2001), ''When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?'' (1979), ''Brewster's Millions'' (1985), Stephen King's ''Maximum Overdrive'' (1986), ''The Grifters'' (1990), ''Citizen Cohn'' (1992), ''The Land Before Time'' (1988), ''Wings'' (1996), and ''Shaft'' (2000). Hingle played Dr. Chapman in the TV series ''Gunsmoke'' (1971), and Col. Tucker in the movie ''Gunsmoke: To the Last Man'' (1992). In 1963, Hingle guest-starred in an episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' called "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" as the title character. In 1980 he appeared in the short lived police series ''Stone'' with Dennis Weaver.

Batman film series

Along with Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, he was one of only two actors to appear in the four ''Batman'' films from 1989-1997. In Hingle's appearance as Commissioner Gordon in ''Batman & Robin'', he worked with Uma Thurman (who portrayed Poison Ivy), whose first husband, Gary Oldman, succeeded him in the role in ''Batman Begins'' (2005) ''The Dark Knight'' (2008) and ''The Dark Knight Rises'' (2012). Hingle portraying yet another judge in ''Shaft'' also worked with Christian Bale, who would go on to portray Batman/Bruce Wayne in ''Batman Begins'', ''The Dark Knight'', and ''The Dark Knight Rises.

Personal life

Hingle married Alyce Faye Dorsey, on June 3, 1947 and had children Jody, Billy, Molly. The couple later divorced and Hingle married Julia Wright (October 25, 1979 - January 3, 2009) with whom he had two children

In 1960, he had been offered the title role in ''Elmer Gantry'', but Burt Lancaster filled the part because Hingle had been in a near fatal accident. He was caught in his West End Avenue apartment building in an elevator that had stalled between the second and third floors. He crawled out and sought to reach the second floor corridor but lost his balance and fell fifty-four feet down the shaft. He fractured his skull, wrist, hip, and most of the ribs on his left side. He broke his left leg in three places and lost the little finger on his left hand. He lay near death for two weeks, and his recovery required more than a year.

Death

Hingle died at his home in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, of cancer on January 3, 2009, having been diagnosed with myelodysplasia in November 2006. His ashes were scattered into the Atlantic Ocean.

Other roles

(1955) Originated the role of Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof''

(1955) Guest starred in "The Allentown Incident" of the CBS anthology series ''Appointment with Adventure''

(1958) Played the title role in the award winning broadway play J.B. by Archibald MacLeish

(1962) Played Mitchell A. Grandin on the TV show ''The Untouchables (1959 TV series)'' on the episode 'The Case Against Eliot Ness' - Season 3, episode #83

(1963) Had a role on an episode of the TV show ''The Fugitive''

(1964) Played Will Carey, an antisocial man who dies in ''Daniel Boone'' (Season 1, episode 14)

(1966) Played Fred Gibson, a Wild West promoter in ''The Andy Griffith Show''

(1967) Played an alien prophet in ''The Invaders'' (Season 2, episode 11)

(1968) Starred as Victor Franz in the premiere production of ''The Price'' by Arthur Miller

(1970) Played Grady Fring in ''Norwood''

(1977) Played Maynard Josephson, an old friend of Police Officer Shockley (Clint Eastwood) in ''The Gauntlet (film)''. He warns Shockley of the gauntlet, but is shot dead by shooters from a nearby building and Shockley is hit in the leg.

(1979) Played Colonel Tom Parker in the film ''Elvis the Movie ''with Kurt Russell

(1980) Appeared in an episode of ''M*A*S*H''

(1983) Played the head cop in San Palo in the fourth ''Dirty Harry'' installment, ''Sudden Impact''

(1985) Played Mr. Boyce in ''The Falcon and the Snowman''

(1995) Played Horace in ''The Quick and the Dead''

(1995) Played Boss Tom Pendergast in ''Truman'' with Gary Sinise

(1997) Played Benjamin Franklin in a revival of the musical ''1776''

(2002) Was a regular cast member of ABC's series ''The Court''

(2006) Appeared in ''Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'', as the original owner of Dennit Racing

Filmography

!Year	!Film	!Role	!Notes
1961	''Splendor in the Grass''	Ace Stamper
1963	''The Twilight Zone''	Horace Ford
1968	''Hang 'Em High''	Judge Adam Fenton
1971	''Gunsmoke''	Dr. Chapman
1979		N/A
1980		Chief Gene Paulton
1983	''Sudden Impact''	Chief Lester Jannings
1985		Edward Roundfield
1986	''Maximum Overdrive''	Bubba Hendershot
1988	''The Land Before Time''	Narrator/Rooter
1989		Commissioner Gordon
1990		Bobo Justus
	''Citizen Cohn''	J. Edgar Hoover
''Gunsmoke: To the Last Man''	Colonel Tucker
''Batman Returns''
1995	''Batman Forever''
1997
2000		Judge Dennis Bradford
2001	''Road to Redemption''	N/A

References

External links

AP Obituary in The Charlotte Observer

Pat Hingle Obit in ''The Star News''

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birth date	October 14, 1944
birth place	Cologne, Germany
birth name	Udo Kierspe }}

Udo Kier (born Udo Kierspe; 14 October 1944) is a German actor, known primarily for his work in horror and exploitation movies.

Early life

Kier was born in Cologne. The hospital where he was born was bombed moments after his birth. His father was absent during most of his childhood. Kier moved to Britain at the age of eighteen, in 1962.

Career

Udo Kier began his acting career as a protégé of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has starred in many vampire movies, such as ''Blood for Dracula'', produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey (1974), ''Blade'' (1998), ''Modern Vampires'' (1998) and ''Shadow of the Vampire'' (2000), both as vampire and human. He has also been in most of Lars von Trier's movies since 1987's ''Epidemic'' (with the exceptions of ''The Idiots'', ''The Boss of it All'' and ''Antichrist''), and is the godfather of von Trier's daughter Agnes.

Well known mainstream film appearances were in the Pamela Anderson movie, ''Barb Wire'', and as an extremely cynical NASA flight surgeon in ''Armageddon'', who finds himself subjected to the rambunctious behavior of the flight crew he is supposed to psychoanalyze, and as Ralphie in the film ''Johnny Mnemonic''. He has also frequently worked with director Christoph Schlingensief.

Kier also made an appearance in Madonna's 1992 coffee table book, ''Sex'', as well as the video for her disco hit "Deeper and Deeper" from the album ''Erotica''. Kier appeared in Korn's music video "Make Me Bad" alongside Brigitte Nielsen, as a military "scientist" conducting bizarre experiments on his "patients" (the band members). He is described in the ''"making of"'' of this video as having "fucked-up eyes but he's funny as shit", by Korn's frontman Jonathan Davis. He also appears in the music video of "Die Schöne und das Biest" by defunct German band Rauhfaser.

He also starred as the psychic "Yuri" in ''Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'', where he dubbed the character's voice for the German language version, and its expansion, ''Yuri's Revenge''.

He also played the villainous Lorenzini in the 1996 film ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'', and then later reprised his role in The 1999 Sequel The New Adventures of Pinocchio and voices Professor Pericles in ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated''.

When not filming, Kier divides his time between homes in Germany, Los Angeles, and Palm Springs, California.

Filmography

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''La stagione dei sensi'' (1969)

''Proklisis'' (1970)

''Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält'' (1970)

''Erotomaneis'' (1971)

''Anilikes amartoles'' (1972)

''The Salzburg Connection'' (1972)

''Flesh for Frankenstein'' (1973) / ''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'' (1973)

''Blood for Dracula / Andy Warhol's Dracula'' (1974)

''Der Letzte Schrei'' (1975)

''Histoire d'O'' (1975)

''Exposé'' (1976) (aka ''The House on Straw Hill'')

''Spermula'' (1976)

''Suspiria'' (1977)

''Hungarian Rhapsody'' (1979)

''Nárcisz és Psziché'' (1980)

''Docteur Jekyll et les femmes'' (1981)

''Pankow '95'' (1983)

''Der Unbesiegbare'' (1985)

''Verführung: Die grausame Frau'' (1985)

''Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung'' (1986)

''Epidemic'' (1987)

''100 Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker'' (1989)

''My Own Private Idaho'' (1991)

''Europa'' (1991)

''Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland'' (1992)

''Josh and S.A.M.'' (1993)

''For Love or Money'' (1993)

''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' (1994)

''Rotwang muß weg!'' (1994)

''The Kingdom'' (1994) (''mini-series'')

''A Trick of Light (1995)

''Ausgestorben'' (1995)

''Johnny Mnemonic'' (1995)

''Nur über meine Leiche'' (1995)

''United Trash'' (1996)

''Barb Wire'' (1996)

''Breaking the Waves'' (1996)

''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1996)

''Betty'' (1997)

''Prince Valiant'' (1997)

''The Kingdom II'' (1997) (''mini-series'')

''Armageddon'' (1998)

''Blade'' (1998)

''Modern Vampires'' (1998)

''Killer Deal'' (1998)

''End of Days'' (1999)

''History Is Made at Night'' (1999)

''Besat'' (1999)

''The Debtors'' (1999)

''Unter den Palmen'' (1999)

''The New Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1999)

''Critical Mass'' (2000)

''Citizens of Perpetual Indulgence'' (2000)

''Shadow of the Vampire'' (2000)

''Dancer in the Dark'' (2000)

''Red Letters'' (2000)

''Just One Night'' (2000)

''Doomsdayer'' (2000)

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''Double Deception'' (2001)

''Die Gottesanbeterin'' (2001)

''Invincible'' (2001)

''Megiddo: The Omega Code 2'' (2001)

''All the Queen's Men'' (2001)

''Revelation'' (2001)

''Auf Herz und Nieren'' (2002)

''Broken Cookies'' (2002) (''also directed'')

''FeardotCom'' (2002)

''Mrs Meitlemeihr'' (2002)

''Pigs Will Fly'' (2002)

''Montewood Hollyverità'' (2003)

''Love Object'' (2003)

''Dogville'' (2003)

''Gate to Heaven'' (2003)

''Paranoia 1.0'' (2004) (a.k.a. ''One Point O'')

''Sawtooth'' (2004)

''Jargo'' (2004)

''Modigliani'' (2004)

''Evil Eyes'' (2004)

''Dracula 3000'' (2004)

''Surviving Christmas'' (2004)

''Children of Wax'' (2005)

''One More Round'' (2005)

''Headspace'' (2005)

''Wit's End'' (2005)

''Manderlay'' (2005)

''John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns'' (2005)

''BloodRayne'' (2006)

''Pray for Morning'' (2006)

''Holly'' (2006)

''Crusade in Jeans'' (2006)

''Fall Down Dead'' (2007)

''Grindhouse'' (Segment Werewolf Women of the SS) (2007)

''Halloween'' (2007)

''The Mother of Tears'' (2007)

''Pars: Operation Cherry'' (2007)

''Tell'' (2007)

''Far Cry'' (2008)

''1½ Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde'' (2008)

''Lulu and Jimi'' (2009)

''Night of the Templar'' (2009)

''House of Boys'' (2009)

''Soul Kitchen'' (2009)

''Metropia'' (2009) (voice)

''My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?'' (2010)

''Chuck'' (2010)

''Die Blutgräfin'' (2011)

''Keyhole'' (2011)

''Melancholia'' (2011)

''The Theatre Bizarre'' (2011)

''Iron Sky'' (2012)

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Video games

''Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge'' (2001)

''Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'' (2000)

References

External links

Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:People from Cologne Category:People from the Rhine Province Category:German film actors Category:German television actors Category:Gay actors Category:LGBT people from Germany

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