‘Suspiria’ 1977: Here’s How To Stream Dario Argento’s Original Movie

The very excellent new trailer to the dance-academy-but-make-it-scary film Suspiria had everybody in a tizzy this morning. It also likely has people scrambling to find out where to stream the original 1977 horror classic, only if you check the usual haunts (Netflix, Amazon Prime, iTunes), you’ll come up short. Perhaps in keeping with the cult nature of the original film, it’s only streaming on one platform, and you probably didn’t know it was there.

The 1977 Italian horror movie Suspiria is one of the classics of the genre. Dario Argento’s reputation as a master of lurid, technicolor horror is largely based on how successfully he unsettled and terrified his audience with this story of a prestigious German ballet academy/boarding school where a series of bloody and malevolent murders point to an evil lurking somewhere close by.

Jessica Harper plays Suzy Bannion, a young American girl who is new to the ballet academy and who arrives on the same stormy night that another ballet student flees the school, claiming to have uncovered a terrible secret, and is murdered by an unseen shadowy figure. The rest of the movie plays out with extreme dread, garishly bright colors, shocking murders, and a peerless horror score that remains one of the best in the genre.

Argento’s Suspiria was also one of the great cult horror films, where its reputation for being intense and not for the squeamish only grew. Remember in Juno when the pregnant teen lead character declared Suspiria to be the unquestioned scariest movie of all time? Between the Argento name, that unforgettable trailer (“The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of Suspiria are the first 92″), and the inevitable cachet that it held as a European vision of horror too intense for American audiences placed it in the firmament of horror cinema.

Most excitingly, director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) has decided to pay tribute to his Italian brethren by remaking Suspiria for Amazon Studios. Dakota Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz will star as ballet students, while Tilda Swinton — who’s worked with Guadagnino on I Am Love and A Bigger Splash — plays the headmistress.The trailer, released today, has everybody deeply unsettled.

Naturally, the new trailer has people scrambling to find the original Argento version. Only it’s no longer available to rent on either Amazon Video or iTunes. Ah, but that’s why you come to Decider, to find the odd little corners of the streaming universe where you can find what you’re looking for.

Have you tried Tubi TV?

Tubi TV is a streaming service that launched in 2014 that streams ad-supported content from Paramount Pictures, MGM, and Lionsgate. Feel like watching the mother-daughter con artist movie Heartbreakers? The Olsen Twins classic It Takes Two? The original Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell Overboard? An Oscar-worthy Ann Dowd in the 2012 indie Compliance? Tubi. It doesn’t even cost anything to register for Tubi.

And right now, when it comes to the original 1977 Suspiria, Tubi TV is the only game in town.

Where to stream Suspiria