'Suspiria': A Cult-Horror Remake Dances To A Confusing Beat
Director Luca Guadagnino follows up last year's Call Me By Your Name with a "punishing" and "confounding" remake of Dario Argento's beloved horror film about a dance troupe of witches.
Suspiria, Luca Guadagnino's reimagining of Dario Argento's gnarly Italian cult film about a haunted dance academy in Germany, is vulgar, shamelessly pretentious, and frequently opaque. But enough about its virtues.
Set in 1977, the year Argento unleashed Prime upon the world, this "cover version" (in the words of Guadagnino's longtime collaborator Tilda Swinton, who plays of the new film's major roles, under varying tonnages of prostheticat 152 minutes, runs just shy of an hour longer than Argento's. Even without those title cards at the top of each act, you would. Notice. The. Time.
