Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria remake is a genuinely singular artifact — its desaturated, cold-war Berlin palette, Thom Yorke's unsettling score, and Tilda Swinton's triple performance set it apart from both the 1977 original and conventional horror. Cinematography by Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is striking and purposeful, favoring muted earth tones over Argento's lurid giallos in a bold aesthetic choice. The acting ensemble, particularly Dakota Johnson and Swinton, is excellent. The plot's ambitions — weaving grief, guilt, fascism, and maternal horror — are admirable if sometimes overstretched, landing as above average but uneven. The ending, however, stumbles badly: the extended cathartic ritual collapses under its own weight, veering into incoherence and overwrought excess that undermines the careful dread built throughout.