Suspiria

Amazon Studios | Release Date: October 26, 2018

7.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 252 Ratings

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TVJerryNov 7, 2018

Dakota Johnson stars as an American who joins a dance troupe in '70s Berlin. Turns out there's an undercurrent of witchy evil that pervades the place. What follows is 2 hours of slow, pretentious, atmospheric drama that leads to the messy,Dakota Johnson stars as an American who joins a dance troupe in '70s Berlin. Turns out there's an undercurrent of witchy evil that pervades the place. What follows is 2 hours of slow, pretentious, atmospheric drama that leads to the messy, bloody, ultimately disappointing climax. That's 152 minutes of wretched waste. The only interesting aspect of this film is that Tilda Swinton plays 2 roles: the choreographer (as a woman) and a well-disguised male physiatrist (who's billed as Lutz Ebersdorf). The worst movie of the year (so far).… Expand

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seed4sufferingOct 20, 2019

A pale imitation of the original. There was no reason to remake an already great horror movie.

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sandbornJan 14, 2019

Lifeless and soulless, 90% of this movie is just plain empty. Pacing at a pretentiously slow rate, the amount of actual horror in this wouldn't even add up to 10 minutes. I was tempted to give 'Suspiria' 1 or 2 stars, but whatever good is inLifeless and soulless, 90% of this movie is just plain empty. Pacing at a pretentiously slow rate, the amount of actual horror in this wouldn't even add up to 10 minutes. I was tempted to give 'Suspiria' 1 or 2 stars, but whatever good is in this, is utterly crushed by all the bad!… Expand

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foxgroveDec 3, 2018

'It's a mess' states Dakota Johnson with remarkable insight around the 2 hour mark of this appalling remake of a not so 'classic' 70's horror. It's going to get worse is Tilda Swinton's depressing reply, and indeed it does culminating in a'It's a mess' states Dakota Johnson with remarkable insight around the 2 hour mark of this appalling remake of a not so 'classic' 70's horror. It's going to get worse is Tilda Swinton's depressing reply, and indeed it does culminating in a blood bath that brings to mind the over the top orgy scenes of Ken Russell's 'The Devils' made in 1971. Dario Argento's original film made in 1977 at least had some striking visuals and a decent colour palette going for it even if it does remain an over rated mystery to me. This loose remake is almost desaturated of any colour, and story wise is an awful mess lacking any cohesion or interest. My rating of '1' is purely down to two fairly well edited dance sequences. As for the rest what was director Luca Guadagnino thinking. Yes, this is the same director who gave us such delights as 'A Bigger Splash', 'Call Me By Your Name' and 'I Am Love'. Let's hope he returns to form soon. This is a disaster!… Expand

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moviemitch96Oct 31, 2018

Well...that was bizarre to say the least! More of a reimagining than an actual remake of the 1977 cult classic horror film, this was a literal mess! While the original (which I was actually a fan of) was creepy and disturbing, it also managedWell...that was bizarre to say the least! More of a reimagining than an actual remake of the 1977 cult classic horror film, this was a literal mess! While the original (which I was actually a fan of) was creepy and disturbing, it also managed to be mysterious and haunting in all the best ways possible and was never too over the top. This film was the exact opposite of that unfortunately! It was creepy and disturbing as well, and them some (and I don't mean that in a good way.) Quite honestly, I couldn't believe how dreary, plodding, and just plain boring it was most the time, but then again, I probably should've suspected as much knowing that the film carried a two and a half hour runtime (an hour longer than the original's hour and a half runtime.) In addition, things just got more and more bizarre as the film progressed but even then still managed to remain rather boring all the while. And if that wasn't bad enough already, the film's final half hour or so became so ridiculously grotesque, and to make matters worse, the film tried it's hardest to make it appear really artsy and deep, but it just came off as completely absurd and pretentious and only succeeded in grossing me out. If there's anything remotely positive I can think of to say about this film, it would be Tilda Swinton's brilliant performance, or performances I should say, cause fun fact: In addition to playing the ballet academy director Madame Blanc, she played another small side character towards the end and also donned lots of makeup and prosthetics to play an elderly man named Dr. Josef Klemperer, but for that role she was credited under the pseudonym Lutz Ebersdorf. She's always blown me away with her transformations and acting skills and range, and this film was no exception! Sadly though, it's no saving grace for the film itself, and the rest of the cast's talents were rather wasted to me. Overall, this really was just one great, long, gross, and pretentious bore and a total disservice to the unnerving original! Hope everybody else had a better Halloween than I did watching this!… Expand

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JuanLuisGG14Apr 15, 2019

Horrid, gross and unfocused. If it wasn't because the soundtrack by Thom Yorke. it would get a 1 for me. It has some mistery moments and build ups which certaincly work, but those are to isolated and often interrupted anticlimactly. TheHorrid, gross and unfocused. If it wasn't because the soundtrack by Thom Yorke. it would get a 1 for me. It has some mistery moments and build ups which certaincly work, but those are to isolated and often interrupted anticlimactly. The ending is just one of the worst things i've ever seen.… Expand

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hnestlyontheslyOct 12, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Suspiria is half dancing, half German terror cell story in “six acts and an epilogue” and 90% of it was okay, but the ending burned all the good will that it had built up for the first 100 minutes.

Apparently this is the same director who had worked with Tilda on A Bigger Splash, which for me means that this guy is more often than not pretty good at what he does. I went in knowing that his last project was Call Me By Your Name. In a few ways, I thought this was a good companion film to that one. Call Me By Your Name is almost exclusively a study in the eroticism of the male body and the idyllic Italian countryside. Suspiria deals mainly with the female body and the grim, gloomy streets of winter in Berlin. Where CMBYN was frivolous and leisurely, Suspiria is tense and gruesome. Sex and sexual appetite in Suspiria is dangerous, ominous–a monster lurks beneath the studio floor waiting to consume her prey. Outside of the contrast with previous work, I’m less sure of how to think about the aesthetics of the film.

Probably the most disappointing thing about this film for me, which is a spoiler, was the lack of resolution of Tilda Swinton playing a second character without it ever being addressed. The second character took up such a big portion of the film and his arc is fairly minor, almost as minor as Chloe Grace-Moretz’s cameo (whoever put her name on the posters for this movie ought to be sued for misleading advertising). I don’t think I understood the gimmick or the game being played. If it was truly supposed to be a secret, I don’t get how the director and Tilda thought they would get away with it. I’ve been reading about how she’s playing two characters basically as soon as the first theatrical trailer for this film came out.

Anyway, I’d say this is probably only a film for you if you enjoyed the original and want to see a new take on the story, or if you have been really thirsting for an art house flick about hive mind ballet with fifteen minutes of **** crazy slasher movie at the end in the same vein as Mother!.… Expand

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richardgjavedOct 8, 2019

Started with promise but lost itself. Gory but unrealistic cgi. Tilda Swinton very good as usual

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