Dance To The Gruesome & Thoughtful Rhythm of Suspiria

For his sixth narrative feature film directorial effort, Italian director Luca Guadagnino decides to go the horror remake angle by doing a new take on the seminal horror film Suspiria. Horror remakes don't have the best track record in the world but what Guadagnino has mad in his mad scientist lab is a totally off-the-wall creation that bears more in common stylistically with an Andrei Tarkovsky movie than one of those horror remakes Platinum Dunes was churning out in the mid-2000's. It's gory, it's slowly paced, it's an improvement over the original Suspiria, it's gonna alienate a lot of people who come to it expecting a routine horror film and it's also pretty darn exceptional.

The Original Suspiria Is An Alright Movie With Exemplary Production Design

Before I spend two-and-a-half-hours this weekend seeing what the director of Call Me By Your Name has done with his horror remake of the same name, I felt it was high time to see what all the fuss was about the original Suspiria motion picture. Hailing from Italy and released in 1977, the film's reputation precedes it both in my social circles where people talk about it in reverent hushed responses and in the larger pop culture where its impact has become so immense that it even got mentioned twice in the 2007 Best Picture nominee Juno. The films larger influence on horror movies, in general, may be even greater than the praise it's received, the amount of horror fare that owes more than a tip of the hat to this Dario Argento directorial effort is unfathomable.