NOTES
1.    Joe Bob Briggs, ‘One of the Scariest Flicks in Splatter History’. San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle, 1 October 1989. p. 27.
2.    Kim Newman, Nightmare Movies. London: Bloomsbury, 2010. p. 142.
3.    Steve Biodrowski, ‘Interview: Dario Argento Sheds the Mother of All Tears’, Cinefantastique, 30 April 2008. http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/04/interview-dario-argento-sheds-themother-of-tears/
4.    Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has a number of directorial attributions, including Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, Perce Pearce, David Hand, and William Cottrell.
5.    J. Hoberman, ‘Suspiria Shock:Two Runs in Two Weeks’, The Village Voice, 1 September 2009. www.villagevoice.com/2009-09-01/film/suspiria-shock-two-runs-in-two-weeks/
6.    Tom Gunning, ‘The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde’. The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Ed. Wanda Stauven. Amsterdam:Amsterdam University Press, 2006. p. 382.
7.    Alan Jones, Profondo Rosso:The Man, the Myths and The Magic. FAB Press: Godalming, 2004. p. 94.
8.    See: Laura U. Marks, The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000) and Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).
9.    Noel Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror or, Parodoxes of the Heart. New York: Routledge, 1990. p. 24.
10.  Alan Jones, ‘Argento’ Cinefantastique 13.6/14.1 (1983): p. 20.
11.  I write about The Stendhal Syndrome in my 2011 book Rape-Revenge Films:A Critical Study (Jefferson: McFarland, 2011) and the article ‘The Violation of Representation:Art, Argento and the Rape-Revenge Film’, Forum: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts, 13 (Autumn 2011).
12.  Email to author.
13.  Alan Jones (2004), p. 90.
14.  Ibid., p. 91.
15.  James Gracey, Dario Argento. Harpenden: Kamera Books, 2010. p. 19.
16.  Ibid., p. 20
17.  See: Xavier Mendik, ‘From the Monstrous Mother to the ‘Third’ Sex: Female Abjection in the Films of Dario Argento’ in Necronomicon:The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema: Book Two, London: Creation Books, 1998. p. 112-3; Donna de Ville, ‘Menopausal Monsters and Sexual Transgression in Argento’s Art Horror’. Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins. In Robert G. Weiner and John Cline (eds). Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2010. p. 63.
18.  Luca M. Palamerini, and Gaetano Mistretta, Spaghetti Nightmares: Italian Fantasy-Horror As Seen Through the Eyes of their Protagonists. Key West: Fantasma Books, 1996. p. 17.
19.  Alan Jones, Profondo Rosso:The Man, the Myths and The Magic. FAB Press: Godalming, 2004. p. 15.
20.  Ibid., p. 16.
21.  Ariston Anderson, ‘Horror Master Dario Argento on Fear and Happiness (Q&A)’, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 August 2014. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/horror-master-darioargento-fear-723085
22.  Maitland McDonagh, Broken Mirrors, Broken Minds:The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. p. 62.
23.  Alan Jones (2004), p. 81.
24.  See:Adrian Horrocks, ‘Suspiria: Magic is Everywhere’. Necronomicon:The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema. Book Four. Ed. Andy Black. Hereford: Noir Publishing, 2001. p. 33; de Ville, Donna. ‘Menopausal Monsters and Sexual Transgression in Argento’s Art Horror’. Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins. In Robert G. Weiner and John Cline (eds). Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2010. p. 64.
25.  See: Xavier Mendik (1988), p. 122; Howard Hughes, Cinema Italiano:The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult. London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2011. p. 240.
26.  Maitland McDonagh, p. 240.
27.  Stephen Daultrey and Monica Esposito, ‘Dario Argento Interview’ Bizarre, November 2009. http://www.bizarremag.com/film-and-music/interviews/8317/dario_argento.html
28.  Alan Jones (2004), p. 69.
29.  Ibid., p. 60-1.
30.  See: Howard Hughes, p. 242.
31.  Although first published in 1821, there were six editions issued between 1822 and 1853, with an expanded version in 1856 that almost doubled the length of the 1821 version.
32.  Rei Terada, ‘Living a Ruined Life: De Quincey Beyond the Worst’, European Romantic Review, 20. 2 (April 2009). p. 177.
33.  Noel Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror or, Parodoxes of the Heart. New York: Routledge, 1990. p. 16.
34.  Michael Mann, ‘Asia and Dario Argento’. Ion Magazine. 23 October 2007 http://www.ionmagazine.ca/culture/film/asia-dario-argento
35.  Stephen Thomson, ‘Suspiria: Possessed Bodies and Deadly Pointe’, Electric Sheep Magazine, 1 February 2010 http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/features/2010/02/01/​suspiria-possessed-bodies-and-deadly-pointe/
36.  Stanley Manders, ‘Terror in Technicolor’. American Cinematographer. February 2010. p. 68-76.
37.  Alan Brien,’Suspiria’, The Sunday Times (UK), 9 October 1977 (n.p)
38.  Alan Jones (2004), p. 86.
39.  See: Alan Brein. n.p.
40.  Alex Fitch, ‘Interview with Dario Argento’, Electric Sheep Magazine 3 July 2009 http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/features/2009/07/03/​interview-with-dario-argento/
41.  Stanley Manders, p. 69
42.  Stephen Thrower, ‘Suspiria’, in Art of Darkness:The Cinema of Dario Argento. Ed. Chris Gallant. Godalming: FAB Press, 2001. p. 129.
43.  Luca M. Palamerini, and Gaetano Mistretta, p. 16.
44.  Howard Hughes, p. 243.
45.  Alan Jones, Profondo Rosso:The Man, the Myths and The Magic. FAB Press: Godalming, 2004. p. 13.
46.  James Gracey, Dario Argento. Harpenden: Kamera, 2010. p. 112.
47.  Horrocks, Adrian. ‘Suspiria: Magic is Everywhere’. Necronomicon:The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema. Book Four. Ed. Andy Black. Hereford: Noir Publishing, 2001. p. 48.
48.  Alan Jones (2004), p. 94.
49.  Ibid., p. 14.
50.  James Gracey, p. 94.
51.  Stephen Thrower, ‘Suspiria’, in Art of Darkness:The Cinema of Dario Argento. Ed. Chris Gallant. Godalming: FAB Press, 2001. p. 137.
52.  Xavier Mendik. ‘Suspiria’. 100 Cult Films. Eds. Ernest Mathjis and Xavier Mendik. BFI/Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2011. p. 191.
53.  Alan Brien, ’Suspiria’, The Sunday Times (UK), 9 October 1977 (n.p)
54.  Email to author.
55.  James Gracey, p. 93-94.
56.  Adrian Horrocks, ‘Suspiria: Magic is Everywhere’. Necronomicon:The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema. Book Four. Ed. Andy Black. Hereford: Noir Publishing, 2001. p. 47.
57.  Linda Schulte-Sasse, ‘The ‘Mother’ of All Horror Movies: Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977)’. Kinoeye: New Perspectives on European Film. 2.11 (10 June 2002) http://www.kinoeye.org/02/11/schultesasse11.php
58.  Email to author.
59.  Email to author.
60.  Tim Lucas, ‘The Butchering of Argento’, Fangoria #66 August 1987. p. 15.
61.  Manders, Stanley. ‘Terror in Technicolor’. American Cinematographer. February 2010. p. 75.
62.  De Berardinis’ daughter Valérie has curated a Flickr gallery of her father’s work that is worth a visit https://www.flickr.com/photos/mos-deberardinis/sets/72157616995566675/
63.  Howard Hughes, Cinema Italiano:The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult. London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2011. p. 243.
64.  Barry Forshaw, Italian Cinema:Arthouse to Exploitation. Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2006. p. 93
65.  Alan Brien, ’Suspiria’, The Sunday Times (UK), 9 October 1977 (n.p)
66.  ‘50 Top-Grossing Films (Week Ending September 21)’, Variety 28 September 1977. p.12.
67.  Email to author.
68.  Email to author.
69.  Steve Biodrowski, ‘Interview: Dario Argento Sheds the Mother of All Tears’, Cinefantastique, 30 April 2008. http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/04/interview-dario-argento-sheds-themother-of-tears/
70.  Luca M. Palamerini and Gaetano Mistretta, Spaghetti Nightmares: Italian Fantasy-Horror As Seen Through the Eyes of their Protagonists. Key West: Fantasma Books, 1996. p. 18.
71.  Diane Fare, ‘A Spectacle of Pain: Confronting Horror in Kathy Acker’s My Mother: Demonology’, European Journal of American Culture, 21.2 (2002), p. 98-111.
72.  Kathy Acker, My Mother: Demonology. Ne York: Grove Press, 1993.
73.  Tony Leuzzi, ‘An Interview with Kevin Killian’, Eeoagh:A Journal of the Arts, 5 (February 2009). http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/killian.html
74.  Email to author.
75.  Kim Newman, Nightmare Movies. London: Bloomsbury, 2010. p. 146.
76.  Donna de Ville, ‘Menopausal Monsters and Sexual Transgression in Argento’s Art Horror’, Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins. In Robert G. Weiner and John Cline (eds). Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2010. p. 71.
77.  Ibid., p. 68.
78.  Maitland McDonagh, Broken Mirrors, Broken Minds:The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. p. xxv.
79.  See: ‘Interview with Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi Taken from FANGORIA Magazine, Volume No. 35 Issue 4’ http://web.archive.org/web/20050306220246/ http://argento.vervost.de/argento/interview_inferno.html. From the Master of Colors Dario Argento website. Archived on 28 May 2006 from the original which was here: http://www.argento.vervost.de/argento/interview_inferno.html
80.  Alan Jones, Profondo Rosso:The Man, the Myths and The Magic. FAB Press: Godalming, 2004. p. 52.
81.  Ryan Gilbey, ‘Why Dario Argento Thinks the Gory Scenes of a Movie Are ‘The Most Important Parts’‘, New Statesman, 8 November 2013. www.newstatesman.com/film/2013/11/why-dario-argento-thinks-gory-scenes-movies-are-most-important-parts
82.  Fred Topel, ‘Joe: David Gordon Green on Nicolas Cage, Suspiria and Little House on the Prairie’, Crave Online 10 April 2014. www.craveonline.com.au/film/interviews/673569-joe-davidgordon-green-on-nicolas-cage-suspiria-and-little-house-on-the-prairie
83.  Brad Miska, ‘Update #2: Update #2: Natalie Portman to Topline Suspiria Remake!’ Bloody Disgusting, 6 August 2008. http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/13203/
84.  Many thanks to James Gracey for pointing this out: I missed this vital document on my first viewing of the film.
85.  Anton Bitel, ‘FrightFest 2014:Another Review’, FilmLand Empire, 27 August 2014. www.filmlandempire.com/2014/08/frightfest-2014-another-review.html