Luca Guadagnino's remake of "Suspiria" failed to ignite both critics and audience's cinematic juices and now, the original director of the horror classic, Dario Argento, claims he's not too happy either with the remake.
Read moreLuca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ is polarizing but fails to cast a spell
Good God, what did I just witness? Luca Guadagnino's "Suspiria," a remake of Dario Argento's blood-soaked RED 1975 classic, wants to be everything its predecessor wasn't -- a meandering 153 minute take on Argento's horror film.
“Suspiria” is set in 1977, the year that Dario Argento’s original came out. It deals with a coven of venal, sadistic, witches who set up shop in the basement of a Berlin dancing school, heralded by a well-renowned dance teacher played by Tilda Swinton. They raise a filthy, thorn-fingered demon that seems to signal the end of times. Their ultimate catch for ritual is a talented dancer from Ohio named Suzie (Dakota Johnson) whose dream was to join a dance company whose VHS videos she has watched on repeat over the years, memorizing every dance movie.
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