Suspiria (2018)

The original is still great . Why remake this.

reviews so far make it sound like they shit the bed hard with this one. Bleak, muted palette, incredibly boring, the screenwriter apparently hated the original. No clue why you'd remake Argento and not realize what made his films great. Amazon will now be a hard 0 / 2 with remakes of really good horror/suspense movies. They're doing their best to catch up with Netflix in releasing as much absolute garbage that they can in the name of having an original tag attached to it.

Fucking Thom Yorke sounding like pre-electronic Radiohead is a nice thing to get out of it all

Szlia said:

To be fair, Profondo Rosso >>>>> Suspiria.

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I too prefer Deep Red but we are probably in the minority. Consensus seems to be Suspiria is the better film.

Chanur said:

I too prefer Deep Red but we are probably in the minority. Consensus seems to be Suspiria is the better film.

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I always found that his style worked better as horror rather than suspense. The last time I watched Deep Red so many things stood out as just awkward film making. Ridiculous sound and score cuts, incoherent pacing, literally every extra is just standing there staring at a wall and not moving. A bunch or small things whose absurdity seems more at place in a horror than a black glove killer suspense although I could never discount his ability to make either. I could see a Deep Red rehash working a lot better under the weird writing and direction that the new Suspiria took than the carnival like art nouveau of the original. All of his films have that amazing quality where it seems like an alien watched some horror/suspense and tried to make a human movie but, after rewatching a bunch of giallo must sees over the past few months, Suspiria, and to a lesser extent Inferno, still hold a lot of charm and can stand as decent horror in a sea of like genre movies made with much less heart than his suspense which has been more than perfected since by many other directors.

Deep Red is the first one scored by Goblin I think? Been a fun few months revisiting a bunch of Italian horror/suspense. Weird fucking filmmakers but those guys had some balls, no half measures with them at all. Fulci had an entire movie centered around killing kids. If only they'd have hung it up when they were losing their touch, sad watching anything past a certain point of Argento's. End of the mothers trilogy is really sad, all of those old idiosyncrasies didn't hold up well with an aging Argento and modern film equipment.