“Tremble, tremble!! The witches are back…” Amazon Studios continues be quite the tease with their promo rollout for the upcomingSuspiriaremake. More than a year after sometantalizing set photoshit the web, we finally got our first look at official images earlier this month, and now Amazon has release a set of four familiar-looking new posters with some mighty ominous phrases scrawled on top.
“Give your soul to the dance” is a particularly menacing phrase, considering the footage Amazon unveiled at CinemaCon last month, which audience members described as astomach-testing sequence of brutal violence, which witnessedDakota Johnsonwhirling around a ballet studio, while another woman was contorted in bone-snapping agony in response to each of Johnson’s twirls, kicks and twists.
Inspired byDario Argento’s 1977 horror masterpiece of the same name, the remake comes fromA Bigger SplashandCall Me by Your NamefilmmakerLuca Guadagnino, who promises to bring his own stylistic stamp to the tale of evil witchery, describing his take as “cold, evil and really dark" far-removed from the candy-colored palette of Argento’s classic.
To bring that vision to life, Guadagnino is reuniting with hisCall Me by Your NamecinematographerSayombhu MukdeepromandA Bigger SplashscreenwriterDavid Kajganich(who also co-wrote and co-produced the AMC’s outstanding horror seriesThe Terrorthis year). For the score, Guadagnino turned to Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, who is composing the first film score of his career forSuspiria.
The film also starsTilda Swinton,Chloe Grace Moretz,Mia Goth,Lutz Ebersdorf, andJessica Harper. Check out the new posters below.
Here’s the official synopsis forSuspiria:
As a darkness builds at the center of a world-renown dance company, its artistic director (Swinton), a young American new to the troupe (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf) become entangled in a bloody, sighing nightmare.
