After watching Dario's Argento's 1977 horror classic 'Suspiria', the one with the Goblin soundtrack that's become hip in recent years, Justice sampling it etc, it occured that best equivalent in pop for Argento's brand of horror, at least in this film, is The Associates' 'Bap de la Bap'. It's in the luxuriant textures and the hall-of-mirrors sounds, but also the rising intensity, reaching a peak of hysterical, irrational but somehow totally lucid panic - too much lucidity, for in that moment you've grasped something terrible and it's even worse than you could have possibly imagined. The mouth gapes ever wider, the pupils dilate further...
"How does an antelope feel when it's getting chaaaased? The same as man with a geiger pointed in his faaace!
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