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.
Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino takes IMDb through his approach to filmmaking, from longtime collaborator Tilda Swinton, to why he hopes he doesn't have a "style."
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
Director:
Gaspar Noé
Stars:
Sofia Boutella,
Romain Guillermic,
Souheila Yacoub
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Director:
Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars:
Barry G. Bernson,
Herb Caillouet,
Bill Camp
An aspiring model, Jesse, is new to Los Angeles. However, her beauty and youth, which generate intense fascination and jealousy within the fashion industry, may prove themselves sinister.
Director:
Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars:
Elle Fanning,
Christina Hendricks,
Keanu Reeves
A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Director:
Ari Aster
Stars:
Florence Pugh,
Jack Reynor,
Vilhelm Blomgren
The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, over the course of twelve years, and depicts the murders that really develop his inner madman.
The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
Director:
Panos Cosmatos
Stars:
Nicolas Cage,
Andrea Riseborough,
Linus Roache
Susie Bannion is a young American ballerina who travels to Berlin to study dancing at the Markos Tanz Company, one of the world's most renowned schools under Madame Blanc's management. On her very first day, one of the students who had been recently expelled from the school is murdered. As this appalling happening does not seem to be an isolated occurrence, the brilliant new student soon begins to suspect that the school might be involved in the homicide. Her mistrust heightens when Sarah, one of the girls at the school, tells her that Pat, before being killed, confided to her that she knew and guarded a terrifying dark secret.Written by
Domingo Alvarez
Rated R for disturbing content involving ritualistic violence, bloody images and graphic nudity, and for some language including sexual references| See all certifications »
Luca Guadagnino (who was originally attached to the project as a producer back in 2008), was announced as a director at the 72nd Venice Film Festival on September 6, 2015. Guadagnino said that he was planning to bring the entire cast of his film A Bigger Splash (2015) for Suspiria, but only Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson returned for this movie. See more »
Goofs
At the end of the ritual scene, one of the deceased dancers on the left side of the screen clearly has their head showing, but in the next shot it's edited out again. See more »
The film's title is inconspicuously announced at the end of the opening credits, appearing in the mise-en-scène on an overhead sign Susie walks beneath in the U-Bahn station. See more »
Total Eclipse (Live Version)
Written by Kristian Hoffman (as Kristian Robert Hoffman)
Performed by Klaus Nomi
Courtesy of Spindizzy Music/Sony Music Entertainment France S.a.s.
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment See more »
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Pure masturbatory garbage and an insult to the original!
What a piece of crap. I mean, my god. The avant garde original Suspiria looks like a cohesive piece of hollywood horror-by-numbers compared to this pretentious, overblown and grandiose jerk-off fest; like if Lars Van Trier decided to remake Fame while masturbating at his own reflection dressed like a ballerina for 2.5 hours. Argento's version is a pure classic that will stand the test of time. This is an atrocity.
On the upside, Tilda Swinton is fantastic as always in multiple roles and the cinematography is gorgeous. The sets are pretty nice as well, but that's not even remotely compensatory enough to salvage 2.5 hours of meaningless masturbatory filmmaking. I mean, did this thing even have an editor?
This film is 2.5 hours of runtime, yet somehow never seems to supply anything resembling a story, nor does it ever arrive at a point to justify its existence. There is no plot, no scares, no thrills, and a weak one dimensional protagonist (played by the range-less and underwhelming, Dakota Johnson) with no goals or motivations, and who never once rises above the scenery or clutter of the supporting characters. Pointless self indulgent filmmaking and the truest epitome of style over substance I have ever seen.
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What a piece of crap. I mean, my god. The avant garde original Suspiria looks like a cohesive piece of hollywood horror-by-numbers compared to this pretentious, overblown and grandiose jerk-off fest; like if Lars Van Trier decided to remake Fame while masturbating at his own reflection dressed like a ballerina for 2.5 hours. Argento's version is a pure classic that will stand the test of time. This is an atrocity.
On the upside, Tilda Swinton is fantastic as always in multiple roles and the cinematography is gorgeous. The sets are pretty nice as well, but that's not even remotely compensatory enough to salvage 2.5 hours of meaningless masturbatory filmmaking. I mean, did this thing even have an editor?
This film is 2.5 hours of runtime, yet somehow never seems to supply anything resembling a story, nor does it ever arrive at a point to justify its existence. There is no plot, no scares, no thrills, and a weak one dimensional protagonist (played by the range-less and underwhelming, Dakota Johnson) with no goals or motivations, and who never once rises above the scenery or clutter of the supporting characters. Pointless self indulgent filmmaking and the truest epitome of style over substance I have ever seen.