10 Horror Movies You MUST Watch On The Big Screen

Either of the Suspirias would fit perfectly into this slot, but we look here to the remake, as Dario Argento's 1977 original is widely screened, whereas Luca Guadagnino's effort only received a limited run.

Guadagnino's Suspiria follows Suzie Bannion (Dakota Johnson), a young ex-Mennonite dancer, to a dance academy in Berlin that harbours some dark secrets - namely that it's run by a coven of witches. From the outset, the film is pure spectacle, wrangling stunning interpretive dance into the same picture as grotesque acts of violence. 

Made for the cinema, every other scene is dripping with blood and other fluids, and the movie neatly juxtaposes in its palette a pulsing, vibrant red (which goes gloriously OTT in the third act) against the drab interiors and exteriors of 1970s West Berlin. And the dance practices and sequences themselves, which make up the core of the film, are the intensely choreographed sequences of the kind we would pay good money to see live on stage. 

Suspiria is a night at the theatre, the cinema, and the slaughterhouse all rolled into one, so why would anyone settle for living room viewing?