50 Greatest Horror Movies Of The 21st Century
19. Suspiria
Plot: An American dancer (Dakota Johnson) enrols in a dance academy in 1970s Berlin which, as it turns out, is run by a coven of witches.
The 1977 Giallo classic Suspiria is such a unique, singular piece of horror cinema, so how the hell do you remake it?
The answer: you don't.
Luca Guadagnino's outstanding horror epic works because it doesn't try to recapture the same magic as the original. Instead, it simply takes the concept and tells a completely different story, making for a more complex, more narrative-based and even more demented coven horror that's, in all honesty, even better than the original.
That might be a controversial statement but as great as the old Suspiria is, even that can't quite compete with the 2018's version sublime performances, near-perfect visuals and stunning, multi-layered narrative, as well as its general insanity. The fact that Tilda Swinton playing an elderly German man is one of the less crazy things in it says it all.
Alongside films like The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and the aforementioned Let Me In, this is one of the best horror remakes of all time.