Suspiria - 💥💥💥

Director: Luca Guadagino
Writers: Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi (characters); David Kajganich (screenplay)
Release Date: 17th November 2018
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥

 Luca Guadagino's remake of Dario Argento's 1979 classic Suspiria is a complicated love letter to dance and horror. The film deeply inspects the renowned yet mysterious Marko Tranz Dance Company.  Fresh off the back of his acclaimed, Oscar-nominated Call me By Your Name, Guadagino brings many of his own visual tropes to his new film, which is shot with a brooding attention to the body and, in particular, the way lighting illuminates this vessel. It's a deeply filmic work that, while bathing in its own original visuals, at times seems to alienate rather than immerse its viewers in its artistry. Of course, the blood and violence are crucial elements of the dread that pervades much of journey, but at two and a half hours long (an hour longer than the Argento's original) the horror becomes slightly repetitive, if not dry of the emotion to that once made it so engaging.

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