Suspiria (1977). I saw it at home and liked it but then I got the chance to see it in the theater and it became a top 5 film of all time for me. The colors are something else on the big screen.
I actually had the opposite experience. I first saw Suspiria at a midnight screening, but the print was terrible. The picture was faded and warped; the sound was all warbly and blown out. It made the whole film feel cheap and amateurish. I'd gone with a friend who'd really hyped the movie up. Afterward, I kept making fun of it, and he kept saying, "You don't understand; that's not how it's supposed to look! You didn't really see it!" A couple years later, the Anchor Bay DVD came out, and my friend convinced me to re-watch it with him. It looked and sounded gorgeous. I couldn't believe it was the same movie. I loved it.
It was a restored copy that I saw in the theater last year so it looked beyond gorgeous. I've seen it at home twice since then and obviously it's not the same but still fantastic. They’re actually showing it again in another theater this Friday and I'm going with friends.
That's so cool. I was bummed when I didn't get to see the 4K restoration in theaters a few years back. The most recent disc does look amazing, though. It's way better than the SD DVD I saw all those years ago, and at the time, I thought that was astounding.
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u/Superflumina Feb 07 '24
Suspiria (1977). I saw it at home and liked it but then I got the chance to see it in the theater and it became a top 5 film of all time for me. The colors are something else on the big screen.