What exactly is going to happen inLuca Guadagnino’sremake ofDario Argento’s bloody 1977 horror staple,Suspiria? Hard to say! We know the film—which starsDakota Johnsonas a dancer who joins a renowned company and is instead deposited into an actual goddamn nightmare—will beuncomfortably long, rated ahardRfor“disturbing content", and that the footage shown at CinemaConseverely fucked upevery person who saw it. And, thanks to a new image on the film’s official Twitter account, we know that even the dancing is going to bereally, reallyweird.
You can’t get much from the image itself—which shows Johnson at the forefront of an uncannily witchy dance number—but it is undoubtedly unsettling for reasons you just can’t quite put into words. Which appears to be Amazon Studio’s tactic in promoting this film; thefirst trailerbarely gave any hints at a plot, relying instead on a series of increasingly wonky imagery to establish that the tone theCall Me By Your Namedirector is aiming for is “YIKES” with a side of “oh no.” Reader, it iseffective.
It’s also very much worth noting thatLA Timeswriter Amy Kaufman specificallydescribeda dance scene from the footage shown at CinemaCon, and, well, here you go:
Ummm I am traumatized after seeing a scene from “Suspiria” in which Dakota Johnson controls the body of another woman as she dances. The woman’s body literally cracks in half. She is like, torn apart. Spitting, urinating, bleeding. It’s… A lot.
Check out the image below.Suspiria—which also starsTilda Swinton,Mia Goth, andChloe Grace Moretz—premieres November 2.
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.
