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{{Infobox film
| image          = Suspiria.png
| alt            = Red paint is smeared on top and under the film's logo, with the pairs of eyes, all side-eyeing, of various people placed within.
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Luca Guadagnino]]
| screenplay     = [[David Kajganich]]
| based_on       = {{Based on|''[[Suspiria]]''|[[Dario Argento]]|[[Daria Nicolodi]]}}
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Marco Morabito]]
* [[Bradley J. Fischer]]
* Luca Guadagnino
* David Kajganich
* Silvia Venturini Fendi
* Francesco Melzi d'Eril
* William Sherak
* Gabriele Moratti
}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|<!---DO NOT change per official website billing order and poster billing--->
* [[Dakota Johnson]]
* [[Tilda Swinton]]
* [[Mia Goth]]
* [[Angela Winkler]]
* [[Ingrid Caven]]
* Elena Fokina
* [[Sylvie Testud]]
* [[Renée Soutendijk]]
* Christine LeBoutte
* [[Fabrizia Sacchi]]
* [[Małgosia Bela]]
* [[Jessica Harper]]
* [[Chloë Grace Moretz]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Sayombhu Mukdeeprom]]
| editing        = [[Walter Fasano]]
| music          = [[Thom Yorke]]
| production_companies = {{Plainlist|
* [[Kimberly Steward|K Period Media]]
* [[Frenesy Film Company]]
* Videa
* Mythology Entertainment
* First Sun
* MeMo Films
}}
| distributor    = {{Plainlist|
* [[Amazon Studios]] (United States)
* Videa (Italy)
}}
| released       = {{Film date|2018|9|1|[[75th Venice International Film Festival|Venice]]|2018|10|26|United States|2019|1|1|Italy}}
| runtime        = 152 minutes<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2018/lineup/venezia-75-competition/suspiria |title=Suspiria |website=[[Venice International Film Festival]] 2018 |date=July 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020061124/https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2018/lineup/venezia-75-competition/suspiria|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref><ref name=bbfc>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/suspiria-2018 |website=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |title=Suspiria|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020061243/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/suspiria-2018|archive-date=October 20, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| country        = {{Plainlist|
* Italy
* United States
}}
| language       = <!-- ONLY list primary languages in the film, which are English and German, per [[Template:Infobox film]]-->{{Plainlist|
* English
* German
}}
| budget         = $20 million<ref name="wild">{{cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |url=https://deadline.com/2018/08/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-amazon-dakota-johnson-comic-con-sequels-1202453398/ |title='Suspiria': Luca Guadagnino On Amazon's Wild First Horror Pic, Dakota Johnson, That Cinema-con Scene & Sequels |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |date=August 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020210425/https://deadline.com/2018/08/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-amazon-dakota-johnson-comic-con-sequels-1202453398/|archive-date=October 20, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| gross          = $8 million<ref name="Mojo">{{cite web |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1034415/ |title=Suspiria (2018)|access-date=January 28, 2026|archive-date=January 28, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260128113511/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1034415/|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

'''''Suspiria''''' is a 2018 [[supernatural horror film]] directed by [[Luca Guadagnino]] from a screenplay by [[David Kajganich]], inspired by [[Dario Argento]]'s [[Suspiria|1977 Italian film of the same name]]. It stars [[Dakota Johnson]] as an American woman who enrolls at a prestigious dance academy in Berlin run by a [[coven]] of witches. [[Tilda Swinton]] co-stars in three roles, as the company's lead choreographer, as a male psychotherapist involved in the academy, and as the leader of the coven. [[Mia Goth]], Elena Fokina and [[Chloë Grace Moretz]] appear in supporting roles as students, while [[Angela Winkler]], [[Ingrid Caven]], [[Sylvie Testud]], [[Renée Soutendijk]] and Christine LeBoutte portray some of the academy's matrons. [[Jessica Harper]], star of the original film, has a [[cameo appearance]].

A remake of ''Suspiria'' was first announced in 2008 after Guadagnino had acquired the rights from the original film's writers, Argento and [[Daria Nicolodi]]. In September 2015, Guadagnino confirmed his plans to direct, describing his version as an "homage" to the original rather than a straightforward remake. A new screenplay was drafted by Kajganich, who had written Guadagnino's ''[[A Bigger Splash (2015 film)|A Bigger Splash]]'' the year before. Kajganich set the film during the so-called "[[German Autumn]]" of 1977 to explore themes of generational guilt in that country during the [[Cold War]]. The film's other themes include motherhood, evil and the dynamics of matriarchies.

Unlike the original film, which used exaggerated colors, Guadagnino conceived the visuals in ''Suspiria'' as "winterish" and bleak, absent of primary colors. The film incorporates stylized dance sequences choreographed by [[Damien Jalet]], which form part of its representation of [[witchcraft]]. [[Principal photography]] took place in late 2016 and early 2017 in [[Varese]], Italy, and in Berlin. The [[Suspiria (2018 soundtrack)|musical score]] was composed by [[Radiohead]] singer [[Thom Yorke]], who took inspiration from [[krautrock]]. The film is dedicated to the memories of ''[[Vogue Italia]]'' editor-in-chief [[Franca Sozzani]], film director [[Jonathan Demme]] and Deborah Falzone.

''Suspiria'' premiered at the [[75th Venice International Film Festival]] on September 1, 2018. It was given a [[limited release]] by [[Amazon Studios]] in Los Angeles and New York on October 26, 2018, where it grossed over $180,000 in its opening weekend, marking the highest screen-average box-office launch of the year. It was screened on October 31 in some US cities before opening in [[wide release]] on November 2, 2018. It was released in Italy on January 1, 2019.

The film was a [[box-office bomb]] and critical response was polarized; some praised the film for its visual elements and performances, while others criticized its historical-political setting as arbitrary in relation to its other themes.

==Plot==
<!--NOTE: DO NOT ADD further plot details (i.e. chapter titles, extraneous information, descriptions of shots, etc.——per MoS:Film/Plot, this section should not exceed 700 words.-->During the [[German Autumn]] of 1977, Susie Bannion, an American from a [[Mennonite]] family in [[Ohio]], is admitted at the Markos Dance Academy in [[West Berlin]]. The academy is reeling from the disappearance of a student, Patricia Hingle, who vanished after telling her psychotherapist, Josef Klemperer, that the academy is controlled by a [[coven]] of witches. Journals left by Patricia in Klemperer's office detail [[The Three Mothers]], a trio of witches who predate [[Christianity]]: ''[[The Three Mothers#Mater Suspiriorum / Helena Markos|Mater Suspiriorum]]'', ''[[The Three Mothers#Mater Tenebrarum|Mater Tenebrarum]]'' and ''[[The Three Mothers#Mater Lachrymarum|Mater Lachrymarum]]''. Klemperer, initially dismissive of Patricia's claims, becomes suspicious of the academy after her disappearance.

During rehearsal, a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] student, Olga, becomes indignant towards Madame Blanc and storms out of the studio. Olga attempts to escape with her belongings but finds herself trapped alone in a room lined with mirrors. Blanc, meanwhile, resumes the rehearsal, during which Susie performs an aggressive dance; her movements begin physically afflicting Olga, ravaging her body and damaging her organs and bones. Several of the academy's matrons drag Olga's mangled body away with large hooks. Later, the matrons hold an informal election for who is to serve as the coven's new leader. The vote is between Madame Blanc and Mother Markos, an aged and grossly disfigured witch who has long controlled the coven, and for whom the academy is named; Markos wins the popular vote. Afterwards, Miss Griffith, the most sheepish of the matrons, kills herself.

Susie befriends her classmate Sara. While investigating the disappearances of Olga and Patricia, the two realize the academy has washed all traces of them. Susie quickly climbs the ranks as Blanc's protégée, then is appointed the lead of the academy's upcoming piece, ''[[Volk]]''. Meanwhile, Sara grows suspicious of the matrons after a meeting with Klemperer and uncovers clandestine hallways in the building where she discovers [[Esotericism in Germany and Austria|esoteric]] [[relic]]s. Klemperer attends the performance. Immediately prior, Sara explores a passageway leading into the catacombs where she finds a heavily withering Patricia. Sara runs away but the matrons manifest holes in the floor, causing her to fall and fracture her leg. Sara emerges midway through the performance, dancing her part in a hypnotic trance, but collapses in pain before the dance ends. Blanc subsequently chastises Susie for intervening in the matrons' efforts to manipulate Sara's body.

The next day, Susie attends a celebratory dinner with the matrons. Meanwhile, Klemperer encounters Anke, his presumed-deceased wife, at his [[dacha]] in [[East Germany]]. She tells him she faked her death after fleeing the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] and started a new life in England. They walk together, passing through a [[Crossing the inner German border|security checkpoint]] into West Berlin without being noticed. Klemperer realizes the two have arrived at the Markos Academy; before his eyes, he realizes Anke is, in fact, Miss Huller, one of the matrons, and that he has been lured there to bear witness to an impending [[Witches' Sabbath|witches' sabbath]].

After the dinner, Susie returns to the academy and is led to a chamber where Blanc and the other matrons await with Mother Markos, for whom Susie is to be a new vessel, and an incapacitated Klemperer. Susie renounces her own mother, who simultaneously succumbs on her deathbed in Ohio. The matrons disembowel Sara to begin the sabbath, but Blanc senses a discrepancy. Hesitant to proceed, she is nearly decapitated by Markos. As Blanc bleeds profusely, Susie reveals that she, not Markos, is Mother Suspiriorum; she is there to claim the academy and eradicate Markos. Susie summons [[Personifications of death|Death]], killing Markos and her most faithful matrons, sparing only those devoted to Blanc. Patricia, Olga, and Sara, each physically ravaged, plead to die, which Susie grants them.

The following day, the academy resumes operations as usual. Miss Vendegast discovers Blanc on the verge of death, and an announcement is made to the students that Blanc has left the academy. Meanwhile, Klemperer, who was spared and now confined to his bed, is met by Susie at his home. She apologizes for her coven's actions and recounts to him the fate of Anke, who died at the [[Theresienstadt concentration camp]]. Upon her touching him, he suffers a violent [[seizure]] that erases his memories before she leaves. In the present day, a carving of Klemperer and Anke's initials on the wall of their dacha goes unnoticed by its current occupants. In a post-credits scene, Susie stares approvingly at something outside the academy.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Dakota Johnson]] as Susanna "Susie" Bannion/[[The Three Mothers|Mother Suspiriorum]]
* [[Tilda Swinton]] as Madame Blanc/[[The Three Mothers|Mother Helena Markos]]/Dr. Josef Klemperer
* [[Mia Goth]] as Sara Simms
* [[Angela Winkler]] as Miss Tanner
* [[Ingrid Caven]] as Miss Vendegast
* Elena Fokina as Olga Ivanova
* [[Chloë Grace Moretz]] as Patricia "Pat" Hingle
* [[Sylvie Testud]] as Miss Griffith
* [[Renée Soutendijk]] as Miss Huller
* Christine LeBoutte as Miss Balfour
* [[Małgosia Bela]] as Mrs. Bannion/[[Personifications of death|Death]]
* [[Jessica Harper]] as Anke Meier
* [[Fabrizia Sacchi]] as Pavla
* Jessica Batut as Miss Mandel
* [[Alek Wek]] as Miss Millius
* Vincenza Modica as Miss Marks
* Vanda Capriolo as Alberta
* Brigitte Cuvelier as Miss Kaplitt
* Gala Moody as Caroline
* Anne-Lise Brevers as Sonia
* Sara Sguotti as Doll
* Halla Thordardottir as Mascia
* Olivia Ancona as Marketa
* Clementine Houdart as Miss Boutaher
* Doris Hick as Frau Sesame
* Mikael Olsson as Agent Glockner
* [[Fred Kelemen]] as Agent Albrecht
}}

==Analysis and themes==
===Motherhood===
The theme of motherhood is explored frequently in the film, both within the coven and in Susie's early life and relationship to her own mother.<ref name=relentless /> Michael Leader of ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' considers the film "an extended exercise in metafictional annotation that insists on dragging the original's darkest metaphors into the light."<ref name=leader>{{cite web |website=[[Sight & Sound]] |title=Suspiria first look: Luca Guadagnino makes heavy weather of Argento's horror |date=September 6, 2018 |last=Leader |first=Michael|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920011400/https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-2018-remake-dakota-johnson-berlin-heavy-weather|archive-date=September 20, 2018 |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-2018-remake-dakota-johnson-berlin-heavy-weather |issn=0037-4806}}</ref>

Michael O'Sullivan of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' links the film's theme of motherhood (characterized alongside its "discontents" as being "chewed on like a vulture tearing at a carrion") with [[ethnic nationalism]], though he states that "neither subtext goes much of anywhere".<ref name=osullivan>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |last=O'Sullivan |first=Michael |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/suspiria-is-a-beautiful-mess-and-stars-tilda-swinton-in-three-roles-and-dont-ask-us-what-it-means/2018/10/31/2b34dd7c-d7cf-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101025148/https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/suspiria-is-a-beautiful-mess-and-stars-tilda-swinton-in-three-roles-and-dont-ask-us-what-it-means/2018/10/31/2b34dd7c-d7cf-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html|archive-date=November 1, 2018 |title='Suspiria' is a beautiful mess and stars Tilda Swinton in three roles and don't ask us what it means |date=October 31, 2018}}</ref> Julie Bloom echoed similar sentiments in ''[[The New York Times]]'', writing that while the film "revels in gore and gruesome displays of horror...&nbsp; it also delves into the dynamics of a wholly female community, touching on issues of power, manipulation, motherhood and the horrible things some women can do to other women and themselves."<ref name=then />

Matt Goldberg of ''[[Collider (website)|Collider]]'' interprets a perfidious form of motherhood as a core theme of the film, as he notes the matrons merely pretend "to be motherly towards the students, [but] they're actually just using them for their power."<ref name=goldberg>{{cite web |website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]] |last=Goldberg |first=Matt |url=https://collider.com/suspiria-ending-explained/ |title=Suspiria Ending Explained: Let's Talk about That Bonkers Conclusion |date=November 2, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103054331/http://collider.com/suspiria-ending-explained/|archive-date=November 3, 2018}}</ref> Madame Blanc's near-decapitation at the hands of Mother Markos when she is resistant to beginning the sabbath demonstrates that Blanc and Markos "do not share the same values", and that Blanc has formed a genuine kinship with Susie.<ref name=goldberg /> Hannah Ewens of ''[[Vice Media|Vice]]'' notes: "With coven power transferred to Susie, it's impossible to say where her talent ends and the influence of the mothers begins. Mothers aren't supposed to have favorites, but deep down they often do—and Madame Blanc's is Susie from the moment of her audition."<ref name=ewens>{{cite web |website=[[Vice Media|Vice]] |title=The 'Suspiria' Remake Recognizes the Terrifying Power of Mothers |last=Ewens |first=Hannah |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj4k3m/the-suspiria-remake-recognizes-the-terrifying-power-of-mothers |date=October 24, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181102024429/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj4k3m/the-suspiria-remake-recognizes-the-terrifying-power-of-mothers|archive-date=November 2, 2018}}</ref>

===Abuse of power and national guilt===
For the majority of the film, Susie appears to be an otherwise normal woman who finds her natural talents rewarded and prized by the coven.<ref name=goldberg /> As the film progresses into its final act, however, it is revealed that Susie is in fact Mother Suspiriorum, one of the Three Mothers whom the coven exalts.<ref name=goldberg /> Film Crit Hulk, a pseudonymous writer for ''[[The New York Observer]]'', interprets Susie's character arc as the discovery of her shadow self: "Initially she seems just a fresh-faced girl from Ohio, eager to make strides into this esteemed dance company. But her shadow self is soon awoken, which we are meant to fear. Susie unleashes her libido as the rapturous demon below claws at the floor. She turns deeply sexual, almost becoming carnal as she writhes to the ground."<ref name=hulk>{{cite web |website=[[The New York Observer]] |author=Film Crit Hulk |title=The Shadows of Guilt That Haunt 'Suspiria' Are All Too Timely |date=October 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101004644/https://observer.com/2018/10/film-crit-hulk-the-shadows-of-guilt-in-suspiria-are-all-too-timely/|archive-date=November 1, 2018 |issn=1052-2948 |url=https://observer.com/2018/10/film-crit-hulk-the-shadows-of-guilt-in-suspiria-are-all-too-timely/}}</ref> Similarly to Goldberg, they interpret Susie's unveiling of herself as Mother Suspiriorium to be [[Messiah|messianic]] in nature, as she eradicates the corrupted Mother Markos and the loyal followers who idolize her.<ref name=hulk /> Goldberg reads Susie's destruction of Markos and her followers as retribution for their abuse of power:
{{blockquote|Guadagnino is repeatedly hitting on a world where power has been abused, and those who feel no guilt or shame are running rampant. We see it in Klemperer's history as a Holocaust survivor; we see it in the current events that pop up in the news during the movie; and we see it inside the coven where the older women who are supposed to be teaching and helping the students are instead preying on them. The movie isn't saying that powerful women are bad; it's saying that anyone who abuses their power to their own ends rather than serving others is perverting that power.<ref name=goldberg />}}

[[File:Demonstratie tegen behandeling leden van Baader Meinhofgroep in Duitsland op Spu, Bestanddeelnr 927-6037.jpg|thumb|upright=1|left|The historical events surrounding the [[Red Army Faction]] and ''[[Vergangenheitsbewältigung]]'' serve as the backdrop for the film's themes of corruption within the coven. <br />{{small|(pictured: Dutch RAF supporters, 1974)}}]]
While Susie/Mother Suspiriorum shows no mercy for Markos and her followers, Goldberg asserts that she is capable of compassion, citing the fact that she grants the physically devastated Sara, Olga, and Patricia "the sweet release of a gentle death rather than obliterating them."<ref name=goldberg /> Goldberg extends this interpretation to Susie/Mother Suspiriorum's visit to Klemperer in the epilogue, during which she relates his lost wife's death in a concentration camp, information he had not previously known.<ref name=goldberg /> Goldberg reads the sequence as an emphasis that "women bonding together have the power to remove the fear of death, and that while the world{{em dash}}especially the powerful{{em dash}}need 'guilt' and 'shame,' Klemperer should not feel those things because he has not abused his power. He's the "witness" and from the perspective of witnessing an authoritarian rise to power{{em dash}}in his case, [[Nazi Germany]]{{em dash}}he is responsible for watching and doing nothing. However, it's people in power who need guilt and shame."<ref name=goldberg />

Some critics have alternately interpreted the representation of the coven's power as inspiring fear of women's autonomy and linking it solely with violence.<ref name=brody /><ref name=rao>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |last=Rao |first=Sonia |date=November 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103010633/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/11/02/very-witchy-suspiria-is-supposed-be-radically-feminist-movie-how-so/ |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/11/02/very-witchy-suspiria-is-supposed-be-radically-feminist-movie-how-so/|archive-date=November 3, 2018 |title=What exactly is 'Suspiria' trying to say about witches and feminism? We break it down for you}}</ref> Sonia Rao of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' notes that while "Guadagnino grants these women power", their power "knows no bounds. Madam Blanc...&nbsp; can turn Susie's dreams into bloodcurdling nightmares. She and the other matrons can inflict injuries on dancers whenever and wherever they want. The witches frequently inflict or inspire violence{{em dash}}their actions, after all, are what make this a horror movie. But some critics say this makes it seem like a woman with a great amount of power is someone who should be feared."<ref name=rao /> The ''[[Chicago Reader]]''{{'}}s Andrea Thompson echoes this sentiment, writing that the film adopts a vision where "when women are united, it is always to achieve an evil outcome."<ref name=thompson>{{cite web |website=[[Chicago Reader]] |last=Thompson |first=Andrea |date=October 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104051906/https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/10/30/the-new-suspiria-manages-to-be-about-womens-power-without-being-feminist|archive-date=November 4, 2018 |title=The new Suspiria manages to be about women's power without being feminist |issn=1096-6919 |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/10/30/the-new-suspiria-manages-to-be-about-womens-power-without-being-feminist}}</ref> Andrew Whalen of ''[[Newsweek]]'' conversely suggests that the film "decimat[es] typical narrative conventions of good and bad...&nbsp; Evil is disturbingly natural in ''Suspiria'', where sometimes only further violence can make room for good to exist at all."<ref name=whalen>{{cite web |website=[[Newsweek]] |last=Whalen |first=Andrew |title='Suspiria' Rips Apart Flesh and Society, Horror Will Never Be the Same Again |url=https://www.newsweek.com/suspiria-remake-movie-review-luca-guadagnino-dakota-johnson-tilda-swinton-1188454|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104053700/https://www.newsweek.com/suspiria-remake-movie-review-luca-guadagnino-dakota-johnson-tilda-swinton-1188454|archive-date=November 4, 2018 |date=October 25, 2018 |issn=0028-9604}}</ref> Whalen characterizes the coven as "a working alternative to the patriarchy falling apart outside [the] doors—financially autonomous, beyond the reach of the police...&nbsp;  and deeply, powerfully collectivist, both materially and spiritually."<ref name=whalen />

The narrative of the coven and Susie/Mother Suspiriorum's infiltration of it is underpinned by numerous historical incidents, including the hijacking of [[Lufthansa Flight 181]], bombings, and numerous kidnappings perpetrated by the Red Army Faction, a [[Marxism|Marxist]] group whose peak activity occurred in the autumn of 1977 in West Germany.<ref name=history>{{cite web |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]] |url=http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/suspiria-a-german-history-primer.html |title=A Germany History Primer for the Confused ''Suspiria'' Viewer |last=Jones |first=Nate |date=October 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030184711/http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/suspiria-a-german-history-primer.html|archive-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> These events occurred in the wake of ''[[Vergangenheitsbewältigung]]'', a period referring to Germany's national reflection on their culpability in [[World War II]] and  the Holocaust,<ref name=wsj>{{cite journal |journal=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |title=Why Director Luca Guadagnino Chose the Path of Horror |last=Steinberg |first=Don |date=October 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027211926/https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-director-luca-guadagnino-chose-the-path-of-horror-1540659661|archive-date=October 27, 2018 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-director-luca-guadagnino-chose-the-path-of-horror-1540659661 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> which "echoes constantly throughout" the film.<ref>{{cite web |website=[[The Globe and Mail]] |location=Toronto, Ontario |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-review-luca-guadagninos-suspiria-spills-its-guts-with-glee/ |title=Review: Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria spills its guts with glee |date=October 31, 2018 |last=Hertz |first=Barry|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181102025553/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-review-luca-guadagninos-suspiria-spills-its-guts-with-glee/|archive-date=November 2, 2018 |issn=0319-0714}}</ref> While Goldberg<ref name=goldberg /> has pointed out correlations between the coven's inner workings and the national events occurring outside of it, others, such as Simon Abrams of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', view them as "surface-level parallels between historic signifiers" that "have the odd effect of subordinating those female-centered themes to a blandly familiar grab bag of sensationalistic headlines."<ref name=abrams /> Abrams concludes that the film offers "an underdeveloped, pseudo-[[Carl Jung|Jungian]] understanding of how historical events kinda/sorta overshadow their protagonists' lives."<ref name=abrams>{{cite web |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |last=Abrams |first=Simon |title=What Is 'Suspiria' Trying to Say? |date=November 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104002334/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/suspiria-explained-what-is-movie-trying-say-1157724|archive-date=November 4, 2018 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/suspiria-explained-what-is-movie-trying-say-1157724}}</ref>

==Production==
===Development===
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A remake of ''[[Suspiria]]'' (1977) was announced in 2008 by director [[David Gordon Green]], who had co-written a script with his sound designer.<ref name=bibbiani>{{cite web |url=http://www.mandatory.com/fun/870583-exclusive-david-gordon-greens-suspiria-remake-isnt-dead |website=[[CraveOnline|Mandatory]] |title=Exclusive: The 'Suspiria' Remake Isn't Dead After All |last=Bibbiani |first=William|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181019213900/http://www.mandatory.com/fun/870583-exclusive-david-gordon-greens-suspiria-remake-isnt-dead|archive-date=October 19, 2018 |date=June 23, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gothamist.com/2008/07/15/david_gordon_green_filmmaker.php |website=[[Gothamist]] |title=David Gordon Green, Filmmaker |last=Del Signore |first=John |date=July 15, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106034649/http://gothamist.com/2008/07/15/david_gordon_green_filmmaker.php|archive-date=November 6, 2017}}</ref><!-- Could this be Christof Gebert? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0991438/ --> In 2007, [[Luca Guadagnino]] had convinced the original film's creators [[Dario Argento]] and [[Daria Nicolodi]] to allow him to [[Option (filmmaking)|option]] a remake of the film.<ref name=aol>{{cite interview |interviewer=Ricky Camilleri |last=Guadagnino |first=Luca |work=[[AOL]] |title=Director Luca Guadagnino Discusses "Suspiria" |date=October 19, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJgRPnH43XU|access-date=October 20, 2018|archive-date=January 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106102500/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJgRPnH43XU|url-status=live}}</ref> Guadagnino subsequently offered the project to Green,<ref name=aol /> who cast [[Isabelle Huppert]], [[Janet McTeer]], and [[Isabelle Fuhrman]].<ref name=jagernauth>{{cite web |url=https://indiewire.com/2015/06/david-gordon-green-says-suspiria-wouldve-been-operatic-remake-still-happening-but-he-wont-direct-262649/ |website=[[IndieWire]] |title=David Gordon Green Says 'Suspiria' Would've Been "Operatic," Remake Still Happening But He Won't Direct |last=Jagernauth |first=Kenneth |date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229170850/https://www.indiewire.com/2015/06/david-gordon-green-says-suspiria-wouldve-been-operatic-remake-still-happening-but-he-wont-direct-262649/|archive-date=December 29, 2016}}</ref> Green described his screenplay as "operatic",<ref name=jagernauth /> adding, "I love Argento's film and we wrote a very faithful, extremely elegant opera&nbsp;... I don't mean musical opera, but it would be incredibly heightened music, and heightened and very operatic and elegant sets."<ref name=jagernauth /> According to Green, financing conflicts resulted in the project being scrapped.<ref name=jagernauth />

In September 2015, at the [[72nd Venice Film Festival]], Guadagnino announced plans to direct a "remake" of ''Suspiria'' with the four main actors of his film ''[[A Bigger Splash (2015 film)|A Bigger Splash]]'', which had premiered at the festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/luca-guadagnino-talks-making-a-bigger-splash-next-up-is-redo-of-dario-argentos-suspiria-1201587085/ |title=Luca Guadagnino Talks Making 'Splash,' Next Is 'Suspiria' Redo |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=September 6, 2015 |last=Vivarelli |first=Nick|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141527/https://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/luca-guadagnino-talks-making-a-bigger-splash-next-up-is-redo-of-dario-argentos-suspiria-1201587085/|archive-date=June 12, 2018}}</ref> Guadagnino revealed that his version was to be set in Berlin circa 1977, and would have as its main theme "the uncompromising force of motherhood".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thefilmstage.com/news/luca-guadagnino-to-reunite-a-bigger-splash-cast-in-suspiria-remake-jamie-foxx-joins-edgar-wrights-baby-driver/ |title=Luca Guadagnino to Reunite 'A Bigger Splash' Cast In 'Suspiria' Remake |website=The Film Stage |date=September 9, 2015 |author=Newman, Nick|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117015028/https://thefilmstage.com/news/luca-guadagnino-to-reunite-a-bigger-splash-cast-in-suspiria-remake-jamie-foxx-joins-edgar-wrights-baby-driver/|archive-date=November 17, 2015}}</ref> Guadagnino has since said explicitly that the film is not a [[remake]], but is instead a "homage" to the "powerful emotion" he felt when he first watched the original film:<blockquote>I was so terrified, but as always with something that terrifies you, I was completely pulled in. I think the process of how that movie influenced my psyche probably has yet to stop, which is something that happens often when you bump into a serious work of art like ''Suspiria''. I think the movie I made, in a way, [represents] some of the layers of [my] upbringing, watching the movie for the first time and thinking of it and being obsessed by it.<ref name="relentless">{{cite web |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |title='Suspiria' Director Luca Guadagnino Hopes Horror Remake "Comes Across as Relentless" |author=Anderson, Ariston |date=August 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830143155/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/suspiria-director-luca-guadagnino-hopes-horror-remake-is-relentless-1136332|archive-date=August 30, 2018 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/suspiria-director-luca-guadagnino-hopes-horror-remake-is-relentless-1136332}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/22/luca-guadagnino-call-me-by-your-name-step-inside-teenage-dreams |title=Luca Guadagnino on ''Call Me By Your Name'': 'It's a step inside my teenage dreams' |last=Mumford |first=Gwilym |date=December 22, 2017 |website=[[The Guardian]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222085726/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/22/luca-guadagnino-call-me-by-your-name-step-inside-teenage-dreams|archive-date=December 22, 2017|url-status=live|access-date=May 27, 2018}}</ref></blockquote>Guadagnino said in 2018 that he felt ''Suspiria'' was his most personal film to date.<ref name="whalen" /> The film was a co-production between the United States and Italy.<ref name="aftab">{{cite web |website=Cineuropa |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/359446/ |title=Review: Suspiria |last=Aftab |first=Kaleem |date=September 2, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181027045840/https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/359446/|archive-date=October 27, 2018}}</ref>

===Screenplay===
The screenplay was written by American writer [[David Kajganich]], who had previously written Guadagnino's ''A Bigger Splash''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.screendaily.com/features/suspiria-screenwriter-david-kajganich-on-his-showrunning-debut-the-terror/5127582.article |website=Screen Daily |title='Suspiria' screenwriter David Kajganich on his showrunning debut 'The Terror' |last=Hazelton |first=John |date=March 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824070023/https://www.screendaily.com/features/suspiria-screenwriter-david-kajganich-on-his-showrunning-debut-the-terror/5127582.article|archive-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref> Though Kajganich admitted to not being a fan of the original film, he agreed to write a screenplay for Guadagnino.<ref name=anew /> On writing the film, Kajganich stated: {{blockquote|Horror often loses me when it starts to no longer regard real people in a real world. And so, I said to Luca when he asked me would I ever be interested in joining him in this, I did say 'I will take quite a practical approach if you're okay with that. I would want to know how something like this could happen, how it would work, what the hierarchy of the coven would be, you know, all of those practical questions that normally aren't maybe of interest to a typical horror film, whatever that is,' and he was all for it. And so, I did quite a lot of research and to actual witchcraft and covens and we did quite a lot of research into the period that it's set in, what was going on in feminist politics and feminist art then, and how were concerns being exploited from the inside out and how that might look inside of the context of the occult. And so, you know, we did try to ground it and how real people in these fantastical situations might behave.<ref name=bdint>{{cite web |website=[[Bloody Disgusting]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020011810/https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3524474/interview-actress-jessica-harper-writer-david-kajganich-cast-spells-suspiria/|archive-date=October 20, 2018 |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3524474/interview-actress-jessica-harper-writer-david-kajganich-cast-spells-suspiria/ |title=Actress Jessica Harper and Writer David Kajganich Cast Spells in 'Suspiria' |date=October 9, 2018 |author=Navarro, Meagan}}</ref>}}

Kajganich chose to set the film in Berlin in 1977{{em dash}}the year the original film was released{{em dash}}during the series of terrorist events known as the "[[German Autumn]]".<ref name="anew" /> The film begins shortly after the [[Lufthansa Flight 181|hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181]], in order to hint at "larger thematic concerns", specifically the response of the youth of the era to the denial by their parents' and grandparents' generations of German culpability in World War II.<ref name="anew">{{cite news |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |title=Striking horror anew |date=September 2, 2018 |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24673927/the_los_angeles_times/ |author=Yamato, Jen |page=E10|access-date=October 19, 2018|archive-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020053126/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24673927/the_los_angeles_times/|url-status=live}} {{open access}}</ref> Kajganich used the political tumult of the time as a means of contextualizing the central plot surrounding the Markos dance academy, "where an American is getting her education in a way in how a modern kind of fascism might look."<ref name="anew" /> For inspiration, Kajganich studied women's literature of the period, as well as the films of German contemporary filmmaker [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]], and "listened to a lot of [German singer] [[Nico (German singer)|Nico]]".<ref name=anew />

Guadagnino was mostly interested in the witchcraft and solidarity among women aspects of Kajganich's script, themes which he said have been "perverted by the official history and the official religions as making a bargain with the devil. The witchcraft that I'm interested in also has a lot to do with what, psychoanalytically, is called the concept of the terrible mother, which you can see also in some religions, particularly in the [[Kali]] goddess."<ref name=relentless /> Retaining the dance academy locale, Kajganich proposed that the witches would transmit their spells via movement: "It makes total sense why a coven would hide in a dance company, because they could wield their influence in public ways, without the public realizing."<ref name=wsj /> Kajganich pitched this concept to Guadagnino early on, and shaped the screenplay using dance as a narrative through-line.<ref name=desire /> Guadagnino was also enthusiastic in response to Kajganich's setting of the film, remarking: "Dario's movie was a sort of self-contained box of fleshy delicacies, which was not in relationship with the moment it was made. It was too much of an opportunity for me and David to actually say, 'It's 1977 – deal with it, let's make it the center of the story.'"<ref name=lookback>{{cite web |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title='Suspiria' in the time of Trump: Luca Guadagnino warns, 'Let's have a look back into where we come from' |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-suspiria-tilda-swinton-dakota-johnson-20181029-story.html|archive-date=October 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029195741/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-suspiria-tilda-swinton-dakota-johnson-20181029-story.html |last=Yamato |first=Jen |date=October 29, 2018}}</ref>

===Casting===
[[File:Dakota Johnson at BAFTA 2016 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=.8|left|Johnson was cast in the lead after appearing in Guadagnino's ''[[A Bigger Splash (2015 film)|A Bigger Splash]]'' (2015).]]
On November 23, 2015, Guadagnino confirmed<ref>{{cite web |url=http://darumaview.it/2015/11/a-bigger-splash-abbiamo-incontrato-il-regista-luca-guadagnino-0110490.php |title=A Bigger Splash – Abbiamo incontrato il regista Luca Guadagnino |work=Daruma View |language=it |date=November 23, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085244/http://darumaview.it/2015/11/a-bigger-splash-abbiamo-incontrato-il-regista-luca-guadagnino-0110490.php|archive-date=March 4, 2016 |last=Rizzo |first=Federica}}</ref> that [[Tilda Swinton]] and [[Dakota Johnson]] had been cast in the film and that shooting was scheduled to begin in August 2016, with release set for 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://velvetcinema.it/2015/11/23/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-dakota-johnson-e-tilda-swinton-sono-nel-cast/ |author=Editorial Staff |title=Suspiria, Luca Guadagnino: "Dakota Johnson e Tilda Swinton sono nel cast" |work=Velvet Cinema |language=it |date=November 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612163000/https://velvetcinema.it/2015/11/23/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-dakota-johnson-e-tilda-swinton-sono-nel-cast/|archive-date=June 12, 2018}}</ref><ref name="hooton">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/suspiria-remake-tilda-swinton-and-dakota-johnson-to-re-team-for-luca-guadagnino-s-dario-argento-a7344016.html |work=[[The Independent]] |title=Suspiria remake: Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson to re-team for Luca Guadagnino's Argento horror |date=October 4, 2016 |last=Hooton |first=Christopher|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229100855/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/suspiria-remake-tilda-swinton-and-dakota-johnson-to-re-team-for-luca-guadagnino-s-dario-argento-a7344016.html|archive-date=December 29, 2016}}</ref> Johnson was asked to play the part of Susie Bannion while filming Guadagnino's ''A Bigger Splash''.<ref name=crazy>{{cite web |work=[[W (magazine)|W]] |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/dakota-johnson-suspiria-luca-guadagnino-interview |title=Dakota Johnson on the Nightmarish Making of Suspiria: "It's a Crazy, Crazy Film" |author=Nelson, Karin |date=October 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020011651/https://www.wmagazine.com/story/dakota-johnson-suspiria-luca-guadagnino-interview|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref> After watching the original film, Johnson agreed to commit to the project.<ref name=crazy /> "I was obviously really invested—really invested in Luca as a person, collaborator, artist", Johnson said. "You just want to go on any adventure with him."<ref name=crazy />

Swinton, a friend and frequent collaborator of Guadagnino who had also co-starred in ''A Bigger Splash'', was cast in three roles: Madame Blanc, the lead choreographer of the academy; Helena Markos, its decrepit matron; and Dr. Josef Klemperer, a psychologist who becomes embroiled in the coven.<ref name=clean /> In the part of Klemperer, Swinton is credited as "[[#Lutz Ebersdorf|Lutz Ebersdorf]]".<ref name=clean /> Swinton stated that she modeled her portrayal of Madame Blanc after [[Martha Graham]] and [[Pina Bausch]], who she felt embodied "the shape Madame Blanc cuts — her silhouette, her barefoot rootedness, the precise choreography of her relationship with cigarette after cigarette."<ref name=then />

In October 2016, [[Chloë Grace Moretz]] was cast as Patricia Hingle, a student who goes missing from the academy, while [[Mia Goth]] was cast as Sara, another one of the academy's dancers.<ref name="hooton" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/10/suspiria-remake-tilda-swinton-chloe-grace-moretz |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |title=Tilda Swinton, Chloë Grace Moretz Will Bring Horror Ballet to Life in Suspiria Remake |last=Desta |first=Yohana |date=October 3, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020054601/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/10/suspiria-remake-tilda-swinton-chloe-grace-moretz|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref> Moretz commented on her participation in the film: "It's unlike any other directing process I have ever been a part of...&nbsp; Luca is Luca and there's kind of no mistaking it for anything else. He'll let you do the craziest stuff on screen and won't bat an eye, he'll tell you to go farther."<ref>{{cite web |work=[[IndieWire]] |date=June 28, 2018 |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/chloe-grace-moretz-suspiria-stanley-kubrick-1201979346/ |title=Chloë Grace Moretz Praises Luca Guadagnino's 'Suspiria' As 'The Closest to Modern Stanley Kubrick I've Ever Seen' |author=Dry, Jude|access-date=October 22, 2018|archive-date=October 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022033625/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/chloe-grace-moretz-suspiria-stanley-kubrick-1201979346/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Also cast were European actresses [[Sylvie Testud]], [[Angela Winkler]], [[Fabrizia Sacchi]],<ref name="mn">{{cite web |url=https://indiewire.com/2016/10/suspiria-remake-chloe-grace-moretz-tilda-swinton-dakota-johnson-1201732882/ |work=[[IndieWire]] |title='Suspiria' Remake: Chloë Grace Moretz to Star in Luca Guadagnino's Update Alongside Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson |last=Nordine |first=Michael |date=October 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221102301/https://www.indiewire.com/2016/10/suspiria-remake-chloe-grace-moretz-tilda-swinton-dakota-johnson-1201732882/|archive-date=December 21, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Vogue Italia]] |title=Voglio una vita fluida |date=September 26, 2018 |language=it |author=Cappa, Marina |url=https://www.pressreader.com/italy/vanity-fair-italy/20180926/281758450213686 |via=[[PressReader]]|access-date=October 19, 2018|archive-date=October 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011172847/https://www.pressreader.com/italy/vanity-fair-italy/20180926/281758450213686|url-status=live}} {{closed access}}</ref> and [[Renée Soutendijk]], each as matrons of the academy.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/09/02/suspiria-is-een-matriarchale-nachtmerrie-a1615019 |work=[[NRC Handelsblad]] |title=Heksenfilm 'Suspiria' is een matriarchale nachtmerrie |date=September 2, 2018 |last=Van Zwol |first=Coen|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181027231812/https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/09/02/suspiria-is-een-matriarchale-nachtmerrie-a1615019|archive-date=October 27, 2018 |language=nl}}</ref> Fashion models [[Małgosia Bela]]<ref>{{cite web |work=[[W (magazine)|W]] |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/suspiria-remake-dakota-johnson-cinemacon-reaction |title=The Suspiria Remake Sent Dakota Johnson to Therapy and Is Making Critics Nauseous |date=April 27, 2018 |author=Munzenrieder, Kyle|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181019210813/https://www.wmagazine.com/story/suspiria-remake-dakota-johnson-cinemacon-reaction|archive-date=October 19, 2018}}</ref> and [[Alek Wek]]<ref>{{cite web |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/suspiria-trailer-tilda-swinton-dakota-johnson |title=Don't Watch the Suspiria Trailer If You Want to Sleep Tonight |author=Desta, Yohana |date=August 23, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181019211040/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/suspiria-trailer-tilda-swinton-dakota-johnson|archive-date=October 19, 2018}}</ref> appear in their feature film debuts as Susie's mother and another of the academy matrons, respectively. [[Jessica Harper]], who played Suzy Bannion in the original film, also joined the cast as Anke Meier, the wife of Klemperer who disappeared during the Nazi invasion.<ref name=bdint /> Harper was asked to appear in the cameo by Guadaganino, but under the provision that she would be able to perform in German.<ref name=icon /> To prepare, she took German classes at a [[Berlitz Corporation|Berlitz]] school.<ref name=icon />

====Lutz Ebersdorf====
[[File:Tilda Swinton (28636791585).jpg|thumb|upright=.9|right|Swinton is credited as "Lutz Ebersdorf" in the role of Josef Klemperer.]]
The role of Dr. Josef Klemperer is portrayed by Swinton, although it is credited as played by an actor named Lutz Ebersdorf in the film and its promotional material, and the filmmakers maintained that Ebersdorf was a real psychoanalyst until a month after the film's premiere.<ref name=clean>{{cite web |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/10/tilda-swinton-old-man-suspiria-who-plays-helena-markos |title=Tilda Swinton Finally Comes Clean About Her Mysterious Triple Act in Suspiria |author=Robinson, Joanna |date=October 10, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020054804/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/10/tilda-swinton-old-man-suspiria-who-plays-helena-markos|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref>

In March 2017, photographs of a seemingly old man spotted on the film's set were published online, identifying the man as Swinton in heavy prosthetic makeup.<ref>{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Char |date=March 3, 2017 |url=https://people.com/movies/tilda-swinton-unrecognizable-movie-role-suspiria/ |title=Tilda Swinton Is Completely Unrecognizable as an Elderly Man on the Set of ''Suspiria'' |work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709061955/https://people.com/movies/tilda-swinton-unrecognizable-movie-role-suspiria/|archive-date=July 9, 2017}}</ref> In February 2018, Guadagnino called the claim "complete fake news", saying that the man was not Swinton but in fact a German actor named Lutz Ebersdorf in his screen debut, who plays a psychoanalyst named Josef Klemperer in the film and is a psychoanalyst himself.<ref>{{cite news |last=Flint |first=Hanna |date=February 20, 2018 |url=https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/picture-tilda-swinton-man-suspiria-set-isnt-tilda-swinton-exclusive-114621729.html |title=That picture of Tilda Swinton as a man on the 'Suspiria' set isn't Tilda Swinton (exclusive) |work=[[Yahoo! Movies]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227195735/https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/picture-tilda-swinton-man-suspiria-set-isnt-tilda-swinton-exclusive-114621729.html|archive-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref> [[IndieWire]] questioned the veracity of Guadagnino's statement because of Ebersdorf's suspicious [[IMDb]] profile and otherwise lack of online presence.<ref name=mystery /> The film's casting director and executive producer Stella Savino responded to IndieWire, saying, "the character of Dr. Klemperer has been played by Professor Lutz Ebersdorf, a psychoanalyst and not at all a professional actor."<ref name=mystery>{{cite news |last=Sharf |first=Zack |date=June 7, 2018 |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/suspiria-josef-klemperer-tilda-swinton-makeup-lutz-ebersdorf-1201970966/ |title='Suspiria' Mystery: Is Tilda Swinton Really Playing the Old Man in Luca Guadagnino's Horror Film? |work=[[IndieWire]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015133609/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/suspiria-josef-klemperer-tilda-swinton-makeup-lutz-ebersdorf-1201970966/|archive-date=October 15, 2018}}</ref> During a press conference following the film's September 1, 2018, premiere at Venice, Swinton read a letter purportedly written from Ebersdorf in lieu of his presence, which read: "I am a private individual who prefers to remain private&nbsp;... Though I strongly suspect ''Suspiria'' will be the only film I ever appear in, I like the work, and I do not mind getting up very early."<ref>{{cite web |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |title=Tilda Swinton addresses Suspiria Ebersdorf conspiracy: 'What two roles?' |last=Rudgard |first=Olivia |date=September 1, 2018 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/09/01/tilda-swinton-addresses-suspiria-ebersdorf-conspiracy-two-roles/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901161536/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/09/01/tilda-swinton-addresses-suspiria-ebersdorf-conspiracy-two-roles/|archive-date=September 1, 2018}}</ref>

Writing for ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', Joanna Robinson reported that when the film screened at [[Fantastic Fest]] in Austin, Texas, on September 23, 2018, the audience was certain that the role of Klemperer was played by Swinton. Robinson speculated that the filmmakers wrote the role and cast Swinton in order for the film to have both an outsider's perspective and a narrative of female power. By September 2018, IMDb had deleted Ebersdorf's profile and credited Swinton as playing Klemperer under the alias "Lutz Ebersdorf".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Robinson |first=Joanna |date=September 25, 2018 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/tilda-swinton-suspiria-josef-klempere-makeup-lutz-ebersdorf |title=''Suspiria'': Why Tilda Swinton Is Playing a Mysterious Old Man |magazine=Vanity Fair|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020054402/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/tilda-swinton-suspiria-josef-klempere-makeup-lutz-ebersdorf|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref>

In October 2018, Swinton told ''The New York Times'' that Dr. Klemperer was played by Lutz Ebersdorf and Ebersdorf was played by her.<ref name=buchanan /> When asked why she played Ebersdorf, she said, "for the sheer sake of fun above all...&nbsp; The intention was never to fool anybody. The genius of [makeup artist] [[Mark Coulier]] notwithstanding, it was always our design that there would be something unresolved about the identity of the performance of Klemperer."<ref name=buchanan /> Swinton asked the makeup department to make a prosthetic penis, which she wore during filming.<ref name=buchanan /> Swinton wrote Ebersdorf's IMDb biography herself.<ref name=buchanan>{{cite news |last=Buchanan |first=Kyle |date=October 10, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/movies/tilda-swinton-suspiria.html |title=How 'Suspiria' Transformed Tilda Swinton Into an 82-Year-Old Man |work=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020062440/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/movies/tilda-swinton-suspiria.html|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref> Guadagnino stated in a subsequent interview in ''[[New York (magazine)|Vulture]]'' that several of the actors in the film believed Ebersdorf to be a real person, specifically Ingrid Caven, who was unaware it was Swinton in disguise until after filming wrapped.<ref name=vulture>{{cite web |work=[[New York (magazine)|Vulture]] |title=Luca Guadagnino Reveals Dakota Johnson's Secret Second Role in Suspiria |author=Jones, Nate |date=October 24, 2018 |url=http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/luca-guadagnino-suspiria-interview.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026143144/http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/luca-guadagnino-suspiria-interview.html|archive-date=October 26, 2018}}</ref>

===Filming===
====Locations and design====
[[File:Salone Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori Varese.jpg|thumb|upright=1|left|The Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori in [[Varese]] served as the Markos Academy.]]
While some filming took place at the [[Palazzo Estense]] in December 2016,<ref>{{cite web |title=Varese come Hollywood. Il set di Suspiria ai Giardini |url=http://www.laprovinciadivarese.it/stories/varese-citta/varese-come-hollywood-il-set-di-suspiria-ai-giardini_1216374_11/ |first=Valentina |last=Fumagalli |date=December 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223153117/http://www.laprovinciadivarese.it/stories/varese-citta/varese-come-hollywood-il-set-di-suspiria-ai-giardini_1216374_11/|archive-date=December 23, 2016 |work=La Provincia di Varese |language=it}}</ref> the central shooting location was the [[Grand Hotel Campo Dei Fiori]] in [[Varese]], Italy, which served as the Markos Dance Academy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ilgiorno.it/varese/spettacoli/remake-suspiria-dario-argento-1.2450134 |title=Varese, l'Hotel Campo dei Fiori set per il remake di Suspiria |date=August 23, 2016 |language=it |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108014213/https://www.ilgiorno.it/varese/spettacoli/remake-suspiria-dario-argento-1.2450134|archive-date=November 8, 2016 |work=[[Il Giorno (newspaper)|Il Giorno]]}}</ref> In the film, the hotel appears to be positioned in West Berlin along the [[Berlin Wall]], but the actual location of the building is on a remote mountaintop overlooking Varese.<ref name=hotel />

Inbal Weinberg, the film's production designer, commented: "When we arrived in Italy, we went to scout for alternative places, because this was logistically going to be almost a nightmare... the hotel had so much going for it."<ref name=hotel /> Weinberg dressed the Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori's interiors with dressings and furniture from various decades to give it an "intentionally out-of-time feeling."<ref name=hotel>{{cite web |work=[[The New York Times]] |title=How an Abandoned Hotel Became a Witches' Lair for 'Suspiria' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/t-magazine/suspiria-set-grand-hotel-campo-dei-fiori.html |last=Newell-Hanson |first=Alice |date=October 23, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181028003018/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/t-magazine/suspiria-set-grand-hotel-campo-dei-fiori.html|archive-date=October 28, 2018}}</ref> German [[Bauhaus]] geometric designs were used for certain interiors, such as the carpets of Madame Blanc's apartment, while Modernist architecture served as a constant reference point.<ref name=hotel /> The [[Frankfurt kitchen]], a mass-produced fitted kitchen introduced in 1926, was the basis for the matrons' kitchen design, as well as the Sonneveld House in [[Rotterdam]].<ref name=hotel /> In designing the dancers' dormitories, Weinberg dressed them with posters from contemporaneous underground bands, and "plasticky" furnishings from the 1970s.<ref name=hotel /> Costume designer Giulia Piersanti selected vintage clothing from the period that was "colorful, but not necessarily bright."<ref name=costumes>{{cite web |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |title=Mia Goth Reveals the Costumes She Wanted to Steal From the 'Suspiria' Set |last=Anderson |first=Ariston |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mia-goth-reveals-costumes-she-wanted-steal-suspiria-set-1153067 |date=October 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022061408/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mia-goth-reveals-costumes-she-wanted-steal-suspiria-set-1153067|archive-date=October 22, 2018}}</ref> Many of the costumes in the film were purchased from a used clothing warehouse in [[Prato]], Italy.<ref name=costumes />

For the film's climactic sabbath scene, the production used a [[loggia]] in the hotel, filling in its arches which were then meticulously covered with braided hair.<ref name=hotel /> "It was Luca's idea to use hair", said Weinberg. "We conceptually decided that the texture of the wall is the hair of victims."<ref name=hotel /> The process of weaving the artificial hair took the design crew weeks to complete.<ref name=hotel />

====Principal photography====
[[Principal photography]] began at the Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori in Varese on October 31, 2016,<ref>{{cite tweet |user=foundasonfilm |last=Foundas |first=Scott |number=793135703253217280 |title=Happy Halloween from Day 1 of Luca Guadagnino's SUSPIRIA. Coming from @AmazonStudios, Frenesy Film + @MythologyEnt. |date=October 31, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181027081529/https://twitter.com/foundasonfilm/status/793135703253217280|archive-date=October 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.varesenews.it/2016/12/tilda-swinton-lattrice-beccata-al-sacro-monte/575368/ |work=Varese News |title=Tilda Swinton, the "pecking" Actress at the Monte Sacro |language=it |date=December 5, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020064439/https://www.varesenews.it/2016/12/tilda-swinton-lattrice-beccata-al-sacro-monte/575368/|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref> with a production budget of $20 million.<ref name="wild" /> The shoot lasted approximately two months, concluding in December 2016,<ref name=asc /> while the remainder of principal photography was finished in early 2017, concluding in Berlin on March 10, 2017.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=foundasonfilm |number=840301689706029057 |title=It's officially a wrap for Luca Guadagnino's SUSPIRIA! |first=Scott |last=Foundas |date=March 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417072341/https://twitter.com/foundasonfilm/status/840301689706029057|archive-date=April 17, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://indiewire.com/2017/03/luca-guadagnino-done-filming-suspiria-remake-post-production-release-call-me-by-your-name-1201794053/ |title=Luca Guadagnino is Done Filming 'Suspiria' Remake, Working on Post-Production For Possible 2017 Release |work=[[IndieWire]] |first=Zack |last=Sharf |date=March 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210033339/https://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/luca-guadagnino-done-filming-suspiria-remake-post-production-release-call-me-by-your-name-1201794053/|archive-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref> Approximately two weeks were spent in Berlin, during which filming of the street and [[U-Bahn]] sequences took place, as well as those occurring at the police station, which was shot in an abandoned office building in [[Mitte]].<ref name=asc /> The scenes of Klemperer at his dacha were shot in suburban Berlin.<ref name=asc />

The filming conditions at the Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori were described as uncomfortable by the cast and crew,<ref name=relentless /> as the film was shot in the winter months and the hotel was inefficiently heated with gasoline space heaters.<ref name=nydesire>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/luca-guadagninos-cinema-of-desire |date=October 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012082804/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/luca-guadagninos-cinema-of-desire|archive-date=October 12, 2018 |title=Luca Guadagnino's Cinema of Desire |last=Heller |first=Nathan}}</ref> The hotel, which had been abandoned for several decades, had been adorned with cellular towers on the rooftop;<ref name=relentless /> Guadagnino recalled a "constant signal coming from the antennas that made all of us very weak and tired", while Johnson stated "there was electricity pulsating through the building, and everyone was shocking each other."<ref name=sharf /> She retrospectively commented that the filming process "fucked me up so much that I had to go to therapy".<ref name=sharf>{{cite web |work=[[IndieWire]] |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/luca-guadagnino-suspiria-dakota-johnson-therapy-1201955909/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825143318/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/luca-guadagnino-suspiria-dakota-johnson-therapy-1201955909/|archive-date=August 25, 2018 |title=Luca Guadagnino's 'Suspiria' Sent Dakota Johnson to Therapy: 'It F*cked Me Up So Much' |last=Sharf |first=Zack |date=April 23, 2018}}</ref> She later expanded on this statement, saying that the filming process "was not traumatic" and instead "the most fun and the most exhilarating and the most joyful that it could be...&nbsp; [but] when you're working sometimes with dark subject matter, it can stay with you and then to talk to somebody really nice about it afterwards is a really nice way to move on from the project."<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |title=Dakota Johnson explains why she needed therapy after Suspiria: 'I was not psychoanalyzed' |last=Romano |first=Nick |url=https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/01/dakota-johnson-suspiria-therapy/ |date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904225028/https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/01/dakota-johnson-suspiria-therapy/|archive-date=September 4, 2018}}</ref> Harper, who worked on the film for only several days but was present during portions of the shoot, likened the locale to a "haunted house... It was cold and dark and scary...&nbsp; which was kind of appropriate, but not ideal shooting circumstances."<ref name=icon>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |url=https://ew.com/movies/2018/10/26/suspiria-jessica-harper/ |date=October 26, 2018 |title=Horror icon Jessica Harper talks about her role in the new Suspiria — and the lie she told to get it |last=Collis |first=Clark|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027003409/https://ew.com/movies/2018/10/26/suspiria-jessica-harper/|archive-date=October 27, 2018}}</ref> The production's first assistant director broke his leg early into the shoot after falling on one of the sets.<ref name=crazy />

====Cinematography====
[[File:Dakota Johnson and Mia Goth - Suspiria screenshot.jpg|thumb|left|Where Argento's film used lavish colors, Guadagnino opted for a muted, "winter-ish" appearance devoid of primary colors.]]

Like its predecessor, ''Suspiria'' was shot on [[35mm movie film|35mm]] film stock.<ref name=ebert>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/venice-film-festival-2018-suspiria-peterloo-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-non-fiction |title=Venice Film Festival 2018: Suspiria, Peterloo, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs |last=Kenny |first=Glenn |work=[[RogerEbert.com]] |date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903112320/https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/venice-film-festival-2018-suspiria-peterloo-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-non-fiction|archive-date=September 3, 2018}}</ref> Cinematographer [[Sayombhu Mukdeeprom]], who had previously worked on Guadagnino's ''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]'' (2017),<ref>{{cite web |work=[[IndieWire]] |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/call-me-by-your-name-cinematography-italy-summer-rain-sayombhu-mukdeeprom-luca-guadagnino-1201897763/ |title='Call Me by Your Name' Looks So Incredible You'd Never Guess It Was Shot During a Historic Rainstorm |last=O'Falt |first=Chris |date=November 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171220133051/https://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/call-me-by-your-name-cinematography-italy-summer-rain-sayombhu-mukdeeprom-luca-guadagnino-1201897763/|archive-date=December 20, 2017}}</ref> shot the film exclusively on Kodak Vision3 500T 5219, without correction filters.<ref name=asc>{{cite journal |url=https://ascmag.com/articles/suspiria-season-of-the-witch |journal=[[American Cinematographer]] |issn=0002-7928 |date=November 28, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181129190453/https://ascmag.com/articles/suspiria-season-of-the-witch|archive-date=November 29, 2018 |last=Marcks |first=Iain |title=''Suspiria'': Season of the Witch}}</ref> To achieve a 1970s-style effect, the film uses [[slow motion]] and numerous camera [[zooming (filmmaking)|zooms]] typical of the period,<ref name=ebert /> including recurrent use of snap zooms.<ref>{{cite web |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |url=https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/suspiria-review-luca-guadagnino-2018-movie-remake.html |title=Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria Remake Is a Witches' Brew of Art House, Horror, and Kink |last=Stevens |first=Dana |date=October 26, 2018|access-date=November 1, 2018 |issn=1091-2339|archive-date=October 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031225720/https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/suspiria-review-luca-guadagnino-2018-movie-remake.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In contrast to the original, Guadagnino's film uses primary colors sparingly.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3502381/editorial-lets-talk-suspiria-remakes-muted-color-palette/ |work=[[Bloody Disgusting]] |title=Let's Talk About the Lack of Color in the 'Suspiria' Remake|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730110649/https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3502381/editorial-lets-talk-suspiria-remakes-muted-color-palette/|archive-date=July 30, 2018 |last=Squires |first=John |date=June 5, 2018}}</ref> He described the film's look as "winter-ish, evil, and really dark."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/global/berlinale-luca-guadagnino-call-me-by-your-name-1201986720/ |title=Berlinale: Luca Guadagnino on Why 'Call Me by Your Name' Strikes Such Deep Chords |last=Vivarelli |first=Nick |date=February 13, 2017 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919122459/https://variety.com/2017/film/global/berlinale-luca-guadagnino-call-me-by-your-name-1201986720/|archive-date=September 19, 2018}}</ref> According to Guadagnino, the decision not to use primary colors was made in accordance with the film's bleak setting amidst Germany on "the verge of a civil war".<ref name=relentless /> Rather than using lavish color like Argento did in his original film, Guadagnino stated he and Mukdeeprom "went for a different take. Dario Argento and let's face it, [[Luciano Tovoli]], his wonderful D.P., they decided to go for an extremely expressionistic way of decoding horror, which started from the work of [[Mario Bava]]. The way in which they made those colors — not just simple gels in front of lights, they were using velvet and they were really sculpting the light — [that] has influenced filmmakers for so long. I think everything that could have been said through that style has been said."<ref name=relentless />

In opting for a more muted color palette, the filmmakers used cinematographer [[Michael Ballhaus]]'s work in the films of [[Rainer Fassbinder]] as reference points, as well as the work of modernist artist [[Balthus]], which Guadagnino felt "created such uncanny eeriness and fear".<ref name=relentless /> The compositions, costumes, and set design were all crafted with this in mind, and prominently feature browns, blacks, blues, and greens.<ref name=relentless />

===Special effects===
Makeup artist Mark Coulier served as the film's makeup effects coordinator.<ref name=coulier>{{cite web |work=[[Rue Morgue (magazine)|Rue Morgue]] |title=Makeup Artist Mark Coulier on ''Suspiria''{{'}}s Twisted Effects, Clive Barker, and ''Nightbreed''|date=January 24, 2019|author=Gingold, Michael|url=https://rue-morgue.com/exclusive-interview-makeup-artist-mark-coulier-on-suspirias-twisted-effects-clive-barker-and-nightbreed/?platform=hootsuite|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190125062401/https://rue-morgue.com/exclusive-interview-makeup-artist-mark-coulier-on-suspirias-twisted-effects-clive-barker-and-nightbreed/?platform=hootsuite|archive-date=January 25, 2019}}</ref> The bulk of the special effects featured in the film were achieved via practical methods.<ref name=coulier /> According to Coulier, the death sequence of Olga, and the final sabbath scene were the most demanding in regard to special effects.<ref name=coulier /> For the former, a prosthetic arm, leg, broken ribs, and a protruding dental cast were created for actress Elena Fokina (Olga), allowing her to appear as though the bones in her limbs, abdomen, and jaw were being crushed and broken.<ref name=coulier /><ref name=slashfx>{{cite web |work=[[/Film|SlashFilm]] |title='Suspiria' Featurette Examines the Remake's Gruesome Make-Up Effects |last=Evangelista |first=Chris |date=December 9, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190125062911/https://www.slashfilm.com/suspiria-featurette/|archive-date=January 25, 2019 |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/suspiria-featurette/}}</ref> Fokina, a professional dancer and [[contortionist]], achieved the majority of the contortions herself,<ref name="wild" /><ref name=aol /><ref name=dancesdeath>{{cite web |work=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]] |title=How Suspiria Created Its Dances of Death |last=Crucchiola |first=Jordan |date=October 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031212851/http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/suspiria-choreographer-damien-jalet-explains-the-films-dance-scenes.html |url=http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/suspiria-choreographer-damien-jalet-explains-the-films-dance-scenes.html|archive-date=October 31, 2018}}</ref> while her actual arm and leg were removed from the footage in post-production via [[Digital image processing|digital processing]].<ref name=wild /> In conceiving Olga's broken arm, Coulier was inspired by a stunt performed by [[Ronny Cox]] in ''[[Deliverance]]'' (1972), in which he dislocated his own shoulder in the film.<ref name=coulier />

The witches' sabbath that serves as the climax of the film was technically complicated due to Swinton's portrayal of three roles, each of which required their own unique and extensive makeup effects, as well as full-body prosthetics.<ref name=coulier /> Additional prosthetics were created to achieve the disfigured appearance of Patricia, as well as the disembowellment of Sara.<ref name=coulier /> "We had so many other makeup effects and full-body prosthetics going on", Coulier recalled. "We had Chloë Moretz in her dead-Patricia makeup, we had the intestines being pulled out, we had all sorts of stuff. It was a big challenge, and we had about 20 people on set, all applying makeups for that long sequence."<ref name=coulier /> The wound which Susie tears open on her chest in the climax was also achieved with prosthetics, though it was digitally enhanced in post-production.<ref name=slashfx />

===Choreography===
[[File:Fotothek df pk 0000184 010 Mary Wigman, Prof. Benedik.jpg|thumb|upright|Expressionist dancer [[Mary Wigman]] {{small|(pictured here in 1946)}} served as an influence on the film's dance sequences.]]
Unlike the original film, which, though set at a ballet academy, featured very little on-screen dancing,<ref name=desire>{{cite web |work=[[Garage Magazine]] |title='Suspiria' Director Luca Guadagnino on His 'Tetralogy of Desire' |last=Guiducci |first=Mark |date=October 18, 2018 |url=https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4xpn/suspiria-director-luca-guadagnino-on-his-tetralogy-of-desire|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028060158/https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4xpn/suspiria-director-luca-guadagnino-on-his-tetralogy-of-desire|archive-date=October 28, 2018}}</ref> Guadagnino's ''Suspiria'' uses dance as a key plot device.<ref name=dance>{{cite web |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |last=Castillo |first=Monica |title=The Dance Legends Who Inspired Suspiria's Bewitching Movement |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/10/suspiria-choreography-modern-dance-tilda-swinton-martha-graham-pina-bausch |date=October 26, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181027232606/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/10/suspiria-choreography-modern-dance-tilda-swinton-martha-graham-pina-bausch|archive-date=October 27, 2018}}</ref> Congruous to the period in which it is set, [[contemporary dance]] was a central influence on the dance style depicted in the film.<ref name=dance /> Kajganich commented that German [[expressionist dance]]rs [[Mary Wigman]] and Pina Bausch were specific influences on his conceptualization of the dance routines.<ref name=dance /> While writing the screenplay, Kajganich shadowed choreographer and dancer [[Sasha Waltz]] to gain further insight into the technicalities of the profession.<ref name=dance /> The work of [[Isadora Duncan]] was also an influence.<ref name=desire />

[[Damien Jalet]] choreographed the elaborate dance sequences in the film.<ref name=dance /> Guadagnino hired him after seeing a live performance of Jalet's ''Les Médusées'' ({{translation}} "''The Bewitched''"), at the [[Louvre]].<ref name=desire /> Incidentally, Jalet had drawn inspiration from Argento's ''Suspiria'' when choreographing ''Les Médusées''.<ref name=desire /> Jalet subsequently used ''Les Médusées'' as the basis for the film's six-minute climactic dance sequence called "Volk".<ref name=dance /> For the last sabbath scene, Jalet said: "We wanted to go from something pretty technical, mathematical, with a certain sense of elegance to something where the body becomes wilder and more and more distorted", Jalet commented. "The scene described something very chaotic, but I felt we needed to create something still very ritualized."<ref name=sabbath>{{cite web |work=[[New York (magazine)|Vulture]] |title=How Luca Guadagnino Brought Suspiria's Bloodiest, Wildest Scene to Life |date=October 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026231804/http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/suspiria-black-sabbath-scene-backstory.html|archive-date=October 26, 2018 |last=Crucchiola |first=Jordan |url=http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/suspiria-black-sabbath-scene-backstory.html}}</ref> [[Dance in Indonesia|Indonesian dance]] also served as a reference point for the sequence,<ref name=sabbath /> which features movements that are "staccato, with harsh stops and starts, and an arm styling that is both intimate—in moments when the dancers hold on to each other—and harshly linear."<ref name=dance />

Aside from Johnson and Goth, all of the actresses in the on-screen dance scenes were professional dancers.<ref name=aol /> Johnson trained extensively in the year leading up to the shoot to achieve the body type and technique of a dancer,<ref name=then>{{cite web |work=[[The New York Times]] |title='Suspiria' Then and Now: Finding Darkness in an All-Female World |last=Bloom |first=Julie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/movies/suspiria-remake-tilda-swinton-dakota-johnson.html |date=October 26, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181028014004/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/movies/suspiria-remake-tilda-swinton-dakota-johnson.html|archive-date=October 28, 2018}}</ref> spending two hours each day training at a dance studio in [[Vancouver]] while filming ''[[Fifty Shades Freed (film)|Fifty Shades Freed]]'' (2018).<ref>{{cite web |work=[[IndieWire]] |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/dakota-johnson-suspiria-luca-guadagnino-producing-1202015184/ |title=Dakota Johnson: 'Suspiria' Is the 'Landmark Moment' of Her Career, But the Actress Is Just Getting Started in Hollywood |last=Erbland |first=Kate |date=October 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027025948/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/dakota-johnson-suspiria-luca-guadagnino-producing-1202015184/|archive-date=October 27, 2018}}</ref> She trained in various forms of dance ranging from [[ballet]] to contemporary dance, as her character is that of a formally untrained, yet broadly proficient, dancer.<ref name=howdakota>{{cite web |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |title='Suspiria': How Dakota Johnson Transformed Into a World-Class Dancer |last=Boticello |first=Mike |date=October 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026005220/https://variety.com/2018/film/news/suspiria-dakota-johnson-transformation-1202994337/|archive-date=October 26, 2018 |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/suspiria-dakota-johnson-transformation-1202994337/}}</ref> Johnson also studied the work of Wigman, and listened to various musical acts of the 1970s, such as [[The Carpenters]], [[Jefferson Airplane]], and [[Nina Simone]], artists she felt would have informed her character's instinctive movements.<ref name=dakotavenice>{{cite interview |interviewer=Oliver Graham |last=Johnson |first=Dakota |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/dakota-johnson-on-the-background-work-required-for-the-news-footage/1029826822 |publisher=[[Getty Images]] |date=September 2, 2018 |location=Venice, Italy |title=INTERVIEW – Dakota Johnson on the background work required for the role: 'Suspiria' interviews at 75th Venice Film Festival|access-date=October 23, 2018|archive-date=April 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421201429/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/dakota-johnson-on-the-background-work-required-for-the-news-footage/1029826822|url-status=live}}</ref> In the early autumn of 2016, roughly two months before the shoot began, both Johnson and Goth began rehearsing the film's choreography on location in Varese for six to eight hours per day.<ref name=qa1023>{{cite interview |title=Suspiria post-screening Q&A |location=[[Grauman's Egyptian Theatre]], Los Angeles, U.S. |date=October 23, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5vgUuVw4UU |access-date=October 29, 2018|archive-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605232009/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5vgUuVw4UU&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live}}</ref>
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=== Music ===
[[File:Thom Yorke 2016.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Thom Yorke]] (pictured 2016) composed the score.|alt=]]
{{Main|Suspiria (2018 soundtrack)}}
[[Radiohead]] singer [[Thom Yorke]] composed the score, his first feature film soundtrack. It features the [[London Contemporary Orchestra]] and Yorke's son Noah on drums.<ref name=":18" /> He initially refused the offer, but accepted after months of requests from Guadagnino.<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/movies/8474868/thom-yorke-suspiria-soundtrack-interview |title=Thom Yorke on Why He Was Scared to Tackle the ''Suspiria'' Soundtrack – And Why He'll Never Stop Touring |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031135958/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/movies/8474868/thom-yorke-suspiria-soundtrack-interview|archive-date=October 31, 2018 |author=Anderson, Ariston}}</ref> Much of the score was completed prior to the film shoot, giving Guadagnino the opportunity to play it on set during filming.<ref name=aol />

Yorke cited inspiration from the 1982 [[Blade Runner (soundtrack)|''Blade Runner'' soundtrack]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/thom-yorke-details-new-suspiria-soundtrack-shares-new-song-listen/ |title=Thom Yorke Details New Suspiria Soundtrack, Shares New Song: Listen |last=Yoo |first=Noah |date=September 3, 2018 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905120355/https://pitchfork.com/news/thom-yorke-details-new-suspiria-soundtrack-shares-new-song-listen/|archive-date=September 5, 2018}}</ref> [[musique concrète]] artists such as [[Pierre Henry]],<ref name=":0" /> modern electronic artists such as [[James Holden (producer)|James Holden]],<ref name=":0" /> and music from the film's 1977 Berlin setting, such as [[krautrock]].<ref name=":17">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/thom-yorke-talks-suspiria-score-at-venice-film-festival-718444/ |title=Thom Yorke Talks 'Suspiria' Score at Venice Film Festival |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |date=September 1, 2018 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913115412/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/thom-yorke-talks-suspiria-score-at-venice-film-festival-718444/|archive-date=September 13, 2018}}</ref> He said: "There's a way of repeating in music that can hypnotise. I kept thinking to myself that it's a form of making spells. So when I was working in my studio I was making spells. I know it sounds really stupid, but that's how I was thinking about it."<ref name=":17" /> The soundtrack was released  on October 26, 2018, by [[XL Recordings]].<ref name=":18">{{Cite news |url=https://consequence.net/2018/09/thom-yorke-suspiria-details/ |title=Thom Yorke details Suspiria soundtrack, shares "Suspirium": Stream |last=Young |first=Alex |date=September 4, 2018 |work=[[Consequence of Sound]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905113429/https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/09/thom-yorke-suspiria-details/|archive-date=September 5, 2018}}</ref>

==Release==
In promotion for the film, a scene was screened during a luncheon at the 2018 [[CinemaCon]] in [[Las Vegas]], Nevada, in April 2018.<ref>{{cite news |work=[[The Burlington Free Press]] |location=Burlington, Vermont |page=A5 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24673860/the_burlington_free_press/ |title=CinemaCon shows diversity, musicals coming to theaters |date=May 5, 2018 |via=Newspapers.com |author=Bahr, Lindsay|access-date=October 19, 2018|archive-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020053135/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24673860/the_burlington_free_press/|url-status=live}} {{open access}}</ref> It was reported that the footage was so intense it "traumatized" those present.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a21068561/suspiria-teaser-trailer/ |title=Early Footage From 'Suspiria' Is So Demented, It Traumatized Audiences |date=June 4, 2018 |work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020064512/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a21068561/suspiria-teaser-trailer/|archive-date=October 20, 2018 |last=Miller |first=Matt}}</ref> The scene presented was that in which Olga is contorted and mangled via movements made during Susie's improvisational dance.<ref name="Col">{{cite web |last=Foutch |first=Hayleigh |title='Suspiria': Amazon Revealed the Gruesome First Footage from Luca Guadagnino's Remake & The Reactions Are Intense |url=https://collider.com/suspiria-footage-reaction/ |website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429003914/http://collider.com/suspiria-footage-reaction/|archive-date=April 29, 2018|url-status=live |date=April 26, 2018}}</ref> Peter Sciretta of ''[[/Film]]'' described the scene as "very gruesome and hard to watch. This film will make most people feel uneasy."<ref>{{cite tweet |title=First clip from Suspiria invokes a dancer being thrown around like a rag doll telekinetically in a mirrored rehearsal space, bones breaking, becoming a contorted mess. Very gruesome and hard to watch. This film will make most people feel uneasy. #CinemaCon |user=slashfilm |number=989606582840246272|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180902023422/https://twitter.com/slashfilm/status/989606582840246272|archive-date=September 2, 2018 |last=Sciretta |first=Peter |date=April 26, 2018}}</ref> In May 2018, Videa acquired Italian distribution rights to the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/global/amazon-studios-suspiria-by-luca-guadagnino-set-for-italian-theatrical-release-1202802505/ |title='Suspiria' by Luca Guadagnino Set for Italian Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE) |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |first=Nick |last=Vivarelli |date=May 8, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190125065152/https://variety.com/2018/film/global/amazon-studios-suspiria-by-luca-guadagnino-set-for-italian-theatrical-release-1202802505/|archive-date=January 25, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Mia Goth MTV Interview 3.png|thumb|Goth promoting the film at the Venice Film Festival]]

''Suspiria'' held its world premiere at the [[75th Venice International Film Festival]] on September 1, 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2018/07/venice-film-festival-2018-lineup-full-list-1202433056/ |title=Venice Film Festival Lineup: Welles, Coen Brothers, Cuaron, Greengrass, More – Live |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |first=Nancy |last=Tartaglione |date=July 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809033408/https://deadline.com/2018/07/venice-film-festival-2018-lineup-full-list-1202433056/|archive-date=August 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Strong lineup boosts Venice |page=A7 |author=Chang, Justin |date=July 26, 2018 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24673824/the_los_angeles_times/ |via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 19, 2018|archive-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020053014/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24673824/the_los_angeles_times/|url-status=live}} {{open access}}</ref> It opened in a [[limited release]] in [[Los Angeles]] and [[New York City|New York]] on October 26, 2018.<ref name=mythology /> Guadagnino held an exclusive Q&A session during the film's opening weekend in Los Angeles.<ref name=roar /> Limited screenings began on [[Halloween]] night in various US cities, including [[Dallas]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.suspiria.movie/tickets/ |work=Suspiria.movie |title=Suspiria: Get Tickets: Dallas, TX|archive-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020072215/http://oi63.tinypic.com/71kbqp.jpg}}</ref> [[Denver]],<ref>{{cite web |work=Suspiria.movie |title=Suspiria: Get Tickets: Denver, CO |url=https://www.suspiria.movie/tickets/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020071947/http://oi63.tinypic.com/2qbujuu.jpg|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref> [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]],<ref>{{cite web |work=Suspiria.movie |title=Suspiria: Get Tickets: Portland, OR |url=https://www.suspiria.movie/tickets/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020230109/http://oi67.tinypic.com/swcryc.jpg|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref> [[San Francisco]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.suspiria.movie/tickets/ |work=Suspiria.movie |title=Suspiria: Get Tickets: San Francisco, CA|archive-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020071759/http://oi63.tinypic.com/sg3j2r.jpg}}</ref> [[Seattle]],<ref>{{cite web |work=Suspiria.movie |title=Suspiria: Get Tickets: Seattle, WA |url=https://www.suspiria.movie/tickets/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181021021722/http://oi65.tinypic.com/ofvp8l.jpg|archive-date=October 21, 2018}}</ref> [[Springfield, Missouri|Springfield]],<ref>{{cite web |work=Suspiria.movie |title=Suspiria: Get Tickets: Springfield, MO |url=https://www.suspiria.movie/tickets/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020071132/http://oi66.tinypic.com/2qxt213.jpg|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref> and [[Tempe, Arizona|Tempe]].<ref>{{cite web |work=Suspiria.movie |title=Suspiria: Get Tickets: Tempe, AZ |url=https://www.suspiria.movie/tickets/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181021022317/http://oi64.tinypic.com/2qxxhua.jpg|archive-date=October 21, 2018}}</ref> The US release expanded to a total of 311 screens<ref name="Mojo" /> on November 2, 2018.<ref name=mythology>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/why-suspiria-will-be-horror-event-2018-1136971 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |title=The Mythology Behind the 'Suspiria' Remake |last=Newby |first=Richard |date=August 23, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020064310/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/why-suspiria-will-be-horror-event-2018-1136971|archive-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref> It was released in the United Kingdom by [[Mubi (streaming service)|Mubi]] on November 16, 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-mubi-uk-rights-1202916218/ |title=Luca Guadagnino's 'Suspiria' Picked Up by MUBI for U.K. |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |first=Robert |last=Mitchell |date=August 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917034333/https://variety.com/2018/film/news/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-mubi-uk-rights-1202916218/|archive-date=September 17, 2018}}</ref> It was released in Italy on January 1, 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caprihollywood.com/news/579-luca-guadagninos-remake-of-qsuspiriaq-released-in-the-united-states-on-oct-26-it-will-be-released-in-italy-on-jan-1-2019.html |title=LUCA GUADAGNINO'S REMAKE OF "SUSPIRIA" TO BE RELEASED IN THE UNITED STATES ON OCT 26, IN ITALY ON JAN 1, 2019. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE 23rd ANNUAL FEST FROM DECEMBER 27, 2018 TO JANUARY 2, 2019 |website=Capri Hollywood |date=October 12, 2018|access-date=November 6, 2018|archive-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106211053/http://www.caprihollywood.com/news/579-luca-guadagninos-remake-of-qsuspiriaq-released-in-the-united-states-on-oct-26-it-will-be-released-in-italy-on-jan-1-2019.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Videaspa/status/1059416209949626368 |title=Le streghe son tornate… #Suspiria Dal 1 gennaio al #cinema. |website=[[Twitter]] |date=November 5, 2018|access-date=November 6, 2018|archive-date=April 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421201519/https://twitter.com/Videaspa/status/1059416209949626368|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Home media===
''Suspiria'' was released in the United States on digital platforms on January 15, 2019, and on [[Blu-ray]] on January 29, through [[Lionsgate Films|Lionsgate]].<ref name="bloody" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.blu-ray.com/Suspiria/637930/ |title=Suspiria (2018) |accessdate=September 14, 2025 |via=www.blu-ray.com}}</ref> The digital and Blu-ray releases include three behind-the-scenes featurettes.<ref name="bloody">{{cite web |work=[[Bloody Disgusting]] |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3537353/special-features-cover-art-revealed-suspiria-blu-ray-release/ |title=Special Features and Cover Art Revealed for 'Suspiria' Blu-ray Release |date=December 10, 2018 |last=Squires |first=John|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211132111/https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3537353/special-features-cover-art-revealed-suspiria-blu-ray-release/|archive-date=December 11, 2018}}</ref>
{{As of|2019|07}}, the film has made $1.1 million in Blu-ray sales.<ref>{{cite web |title=Suspiria (2018) – Financial Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Suspiria-(2018)#tab=summary |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |publisher=Nash Information Services |access-date=July 27, 2019 |archive-date=November 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101091641/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Suspiria-(2018)#tab=summary |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Reception==
===Box office===
''Suspiria'' grossed a total of $179,806 during its opening weekend playing at the [[ArcLight Hollywood]] and [[Regal Entertainment Group|Regal]] Union Square in Los Angeles and New York, respectively.<ref name=fuster>{{cite web |work=[[TheWrap]] |title='Suspiria' Posts Highest Screen Average of 2018 in Gory Indie Box Office Launch |author=Fuster, Jeremy |date=October 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028213001/https://www.thewrap.com/suspiria-posts-highest-screen-average-2018-gory-indie-box-office-launch/|archive-date=October 28, 2018 |url=https://www.thewrap.com/suspiria-posts-highest-screen-average-2018-gory-indie-box-office-launch/}}</ref> This marked an average of $89,903 per screen, the highest screen-average box office launch of the year.<ref name=fuster /><ref name=roar>{{cite web |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/suspiria-top-screen-average-2018-1203006613/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029003954/https://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/suspiria-top-screen-average-2018-1203006613/|archive-date=October 29, 2018 |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=October 28, 2018 |title='Suspiria' Plans Big Expansion After Roaring Start}}</ref> Upon its expansion the following week, the film grossed $964,722 between November 2 and 4, ranking number 19 at the US box office.<ref name=bomweekend>{{cite web |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |title=Suspiria (2018) Weekend Box Office |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=suspiria.htm|access-date=November 4, 2018|archive-date=November 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105012450/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=suspiria.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The film had closed on December 20 after it grossed $5,169,833 internationally, and $2,483,472 in the United States, making for a worldwide gross of $7,653,305.<ref>{{cite web |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |title=Suspiria (2018) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=suspiria.htm|access-date=April 25, 2019|archive-date=September 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903215134/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=suspiria.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020, Guadagnino said ''Suspiria'' had "made absolutely nothing. It was a disaster at the box office."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Sharf |first=Zack |date=November 12, 2020 |title=Luca Guadagnino: 'Suspiria' Sequel Plan Impossible After Film Was a Box-Office Disaster |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/11/luca-guadagnino-suspiria-sequel-killed-box-office-disaster-1234598508/|access-date=November 13, 2020 |website=IndieWire |language=en|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113065214/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/11/luca-guadagnino-suspiria-sequel-killed-box-office-disaster-1234598508/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Critical response ===
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The critical responses to ''Suspiria'' were strongly polarized upon its release.<ref name=truitt /><ref name=travers>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/suspiria-movie-review-tilda-swinton-744350/ |title='Suspiria' Review: Horror Remake Is Mesmerizing, Maddening and a Mess |last=Travers |first=Peter|author-link=Peter Travers |date=October 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026033726/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/suspiria-movie-review-tilda-swinton-744350/|archive-date=October 26, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |work=[[Syfy]] |title=Suspiria Director Luca Guadagnino Reveals Prequel Idea, Dakota Johnson's Double Role |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-prequel-idea-dakota-johnson-double-role |author=Oller, Jacob |date=October 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025211158/https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-prequel-idea-dakota-johnson-double-role|archive-date=October 25, 2018}}</ref> [[Peter Travers]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]''  stressed that "polarizing" served as "too tame a word" to describe the reactions to the film.<ref name=travers /> On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 65% based on 335 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "''Suspiria'' attacks heady themes with garish vigor, offering a viewing experience that's daringly confrontational{{em dash}}and definitely not for everyone."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/suspiria_2018 |title=Suspiria (2018) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date=May 22, 2025|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116065727/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/suspiria_2018|url-status=live}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has an average weighted score of 64 out of 100, based on 56 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://metacritic.com/movie/suspiria-2018 |title=Suspiria (2018) |work=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=December 8, 2018|archive-date=November 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115190945/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/suspiria-2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{quote box|align=left|bgcolor=lavender|width=28%|quote="Guadagnino, who has said he wanted to remake ''Suspiria'' since he first saw it more than 30 years ago, signals both his reverence and his seriousness by departing from it in every way imaginable — visually, sonically, dramatically, emotionally."|source=–Justin Chang of the ''Los Angeles Times''<ref name=chang />}}
Commenting on the horror elements of the film, Andrew Whalen of ''Newsweek'' deemed it "a powerful and dread-inducing experience even before it reveals itself to be not just an arthouse exploration of a horror aesthetic." He also compared the body horror in the film to that of the works of [[David Cronenberg]].<ref name="whalen" /> Like Whalen, Kristen Kim of ''[[The Nation]]'' observed similar elements, and wrote that it took "the body horror of the original to an unsightly new level. If the blood runs pretty in the old ''Suspiria'', it's urine here that trickles down the legs of a painfully contorted ballerina."<ref>{{cite web |work=[[The Nation]] |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/luca-guadagnino-suspiria-film-review/ |title=Luca Guadagnino's 'Suspiria' Is a Thrilling Mess |last=Kim |first=Kristen Yoonsoo |date=October 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029231933/https://www.thenation.com/article/luca-guadagnino-suspiria-film-review/|archive-date=October 29, 2018}}</ref> Writing in ''Variety'', [[Owen Gleiberman]] compared certain visual elements of the film to ''[[The Exorcist]]'' (1973) and summarized it as a "gory but imperiously lofty matriarchal horror film", though he noted that the film would have benefited from more shocks.<ref name=gleiberman>{{cite web |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |title=Film Review: 'Suspiria' |author=Gleiberman, Owen|author-link=Owen Gleiberman |date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030223745/https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/suspiria-review-dakota-johnson-1202924220/|archive-date=October 30, 2018 |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/suspiria-review-dakota-johnson-1202924220/}}</ref> ''[[The Boston Globe]]''{{'}}s [[Ty Burr]] described the film's finale as "[[Lovecraftian horror|Lovecraftian]]" but concluded that what it "mostly leaves behind is an acrid taste of having experienced something stylish but unfulfilling."<ref name=burr>{{cite web |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |last=Burr |first=Ty |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2018/10/31/modern-dance-horror-show-suspiria/gw8gzLtKKpzILttpRhZF1J/story.html |title=Modern dance is a horror show in 'Suspiria' |date=October 31, 2018|access-date=November 1, 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113025929/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2018/10/31/modern-dance-horror-show-suspiria/gw8gzLtKKpzILttpRhZF1J/story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''{{'}}s Justin Chang felt that the reimagining of witchcraft is "boldly absurd" and concluded: "By the time the phantasmagorical finale arrives, you are flooded with blood and viscera, yes, but also something even more unsettling — a sudden onrush of feeling, a deep, overpowering melancholy. It's the most startling of the movie's transfigurations, and it returns us to the primordial theme of motherhood."<ref name=chang>{{cite web |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |last=Chang |first=Justin |date=October 24, 2018 |title=Review: Luca Guadagnino's 'Suspiria' remake casts a powerfully brutal, sorrowful spell |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-suspiria-review-20181024-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025214027/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-suspiria-review-20181024-story.html|archive-date=October 25, 2018}}</ref> Anthony Lane of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' wrote a favorable review of the film, concluding: "The first time I saw Guadagnino's ''Suspiria'', I came out pretty much covered in gore, and confounded by the surfeit of stories. Can a splash be so big that it drowns the senses? How does such a film cohere? The second time around, I followed the flow, and found that what it led to was not terror, or disgust, but an unexpected sadness."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-confounding-sadness-of-luca-guadagninos-suspiria |title=The Confounding Sadness of Luca Guadagnino's "Suspiria" |author=Lane, Anthony |date=October 29, 2018 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030235458/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-confounding-sadness-of-luca-guadagninos-suspiria|archive-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> David Ehrlich, who gave the film an A−, commented in ''IndieWire'' that "''Suspiria'' is a film of rare and unfettered madness, and it leaves behind a scalding message that's written in pain and blood: The future will be a nightmare if we can't take responsibility for the past."<ref name=ehrlich>{{cite web |work=IndieWire |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/suspiria-2018-review-luca-guadagnino-1201999360/ |title=Suspiria |date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929055642/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/suspiria-2018-review-luca-guadagnino-1201999360/|archive-date=September 29, 2018 |last=Ehrlich |first=David}}</ref> ''[[Slant Magazine]]''{{'}}s Greg Cwik praised the cinematography, but expressed disappointment for what he felt was a lack of cohesion: "''Suspiria'' is a largely befuddling accumulation of shots and sounds that never coalesce."<ref>{{cite web |work=[[Slant Magazine]] |title=Suspiria |author=Cwik, Greg |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/suspiria-2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023120048/https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/suspiria-2018|archive-date=October 23, 2018 |date=October 23, 2018}}</ref>

The film's length and pacing were noted by several critics who had varying opinions: David Rooney of ''The Hollywood Reporter'' criticized the film for being "unnecessarily drawn out" with "too many discursive shifts to build much tension",<ref name="hr">{{cite web |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |last=Rooney |first=David |date=September 1, 2018 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/suspiria-review-roundup-what-critics-are-saying-1138124 |title='Suspiria': What the Critics Are Saying|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907165037/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/suspiria-review-roundup-what-critics-are-saying-1138124|archive-date=September 7, 2018}}</ref> while [[Peter Bradshaw]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' described it as "more an MA thesis than a remake...&nbsp; determinedly upscale and uppermiddlebrow, with indigestible new layers of historical meaning added."<ref name="guardian">{{cite web |work=[[The Guardian]] |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter|author-link=Peter Bradshaw |title=Suspiria review – Luca Guadagnino's horror remake has sex and style but fails to bewitch |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/01/suspiria-review-luca-guadagninos-horror-remake-has-sex-and-style-but-fails-to-bewitch |date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025031650/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/01/suspiria-review-luca-guadagninos-horror-remake-has-sex-and-style-but-fails-to-bewitch|archive-date=October 25, 2018}}</ref> [[Manohla Dargis]] of ''The New York Times'' criticized the pacing and runtime, writing: "As the first hour of ''Suspiria'' grinds into the second and beyond (the movie runs 152 minutes), it grows ever more distended and yet more hollow. Unlike Argento, who seemed content to deliver a nastily updated fairy tale in 90 or so minutes, Guadagnino continues casting about for meaning, which perhaps explains why he keeps adding more stuff, more mayhem, more dances."<ref>{{cite web |work=[[The New York Times]] |last=Dargis |first=Manohla|author-link=Manohla Dargis |title=Review: 'Suspiria' Is a Gaudy Freakout of Female Violence |date=October 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024200944/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/movies/suspiria-review.html|archive-date=October 24, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/movies/suspiria-review.html}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph|Telegraph]]'' critic [[Robbie Collin]], however, praised the film for being a "slow burner", awarding it five out of five and stating that he considered it a better film than the original.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/suspiria-review-slow-burn-horror-better-original/ |title=Suspiria, review: This slow-burn horror is better than the original |last=Collin |first=Robbie |date=September 1, 2018 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025202751/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/suspiria-review-slow-burn-horror-better-original/|archive-date=October 25, 2018}}</ref> Chris Klimek of [[NPR]] alternately deemed the film "a confounding and often punishing experience...&nbsp; simply keeping up with the plot, despite its pokey pace, is ultimately exhausting."<ref name=klimek>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/658858340/suspiria-a-cult-horror-remake-dances-to-a-confusing-beat |title='Suspiria': A Cult-Horror Remake Dances To A Confusing Beat |author=Klimek, Chris |date=October 26, 2018 |work=[[NPR]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104013743/https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/658858340/suspiria-a-cult-horror-remake-dances-to-a-confusing-beat|archive-date=November 4, 2018}}</ref> William Bibbiani of ''[[IGN]]'' echoed this sentiment, summarizing the film as "an interesting intellectual exercise, too ambitious to be ignored yet too overbearing to be enjoyed."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/24/suspiria-review |title=Suspiria Review |last=Bibbiani |first=William |date=October 24, 2018 |work=[[IGN]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025033112/https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/24/suspiria-review|archive-date=October 25, 2018}}</ref> Travers conceded that "Guadagnino's reach far exceeds his grasp", but concluded: "to watch him excavate evil to find a sorrowful truth is something you won't want to miss."<ref name=travers />

{{quote box|bgcolor=lavender|align=right|width=28%|quote="Guadagnino is so busy directing a movie about women in the abstract, witchcraft in the abstract, dance in the abstract, terrorism in the abstract, the Holocaust in the abstract, Berlin and Germany in the abstract, that he doesn't see the people, the places, the characters that he's filming. His camera sees nothing."|source=–[[Richard Brody]], writing in ''The New Yorker''<ref name=brody />}}
Numerous critics commented on the themes of German history and [[the Holocaust]].<ref name=hr /><ref name=time /><ref name=guardian /> Brian Truitt of ''[[USA Today]]'' wrote that the subtext and subplots were "bound to alienate some", but that "those with a penchant for the new wave of psychological horror and a healthy respect for B-movie camp will love this thing to the crazy last dance",<ref name=truitt>{{cite web |last=Truitt |first=Brian |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/10/25/review-polarizing-suspiria-unnervingly-good-time-dakota-johnson/1752824002/ |title=Review: Polarizing 'Suspiria' is an unnervingly good time to the crazy last dance |date=October 25, 2018 |work=[[USA Today]] |issn=0734-7456|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026021216/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/10/25/review-polarizing-suspiria-unnervingly-good-time-dakota-johnson/1752824002/|archive-date=October 26, 2018}}</ref> while Stephanie Zacharek of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' criticized the political backdrop as "an extra layer of needless complication."<ref name="time">{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |last=Zacharek |first=Stephanie |date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903025156/http://time.com/5384890/suspiria-review/|archive-date=September 3, 2018 |title=The Suspiria Remake Isn't That Scary. But That's Not Even the Worst Thing About It |url-status=live |url=https://time.com/5384890/suspiria-review/}}</ref> This sentiment was reiterated by [[Richard Brody]], writing for ''The New Yorker'', who felt that the filmmakers "shoehorn the Holocaust into the film with a conspicuously effortful shove...&nbsp; The movie has nothing to say about women's history, feminist politics, civil violence, the Holocaust, the Cold War, or German culture. Instead, Guadagnino thrusts some thusly labelled trinkets at viewers and suggests that they try to assemble them. The result is sordid, flimsy Holocaust [[kitsch]], fanatical chic, with all the actual political substance of a [[Che Guevara in fashion|designer Che T-shirt]]."<ref name=brody>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |title=Review: Luca Guadagnino's "Suspiria" Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-Shirt |last=Brody |first=Richard |date=October 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031045808/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/review-luca-guadagninos-suspiria-is-the-cinematic-equivalent-of-a-designer-che-t-shirt|archive-date=October 31, 2018 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/review-luca-guadagninos-suspiria-is-the-cinematic-equivalent-of-a-designer-che-t-shirt}}</ref>

Commenting on the performances of the cast, Kim Selling and Joule Zelman of ''[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]]'' praised that of Swinton, but deemed Johnson miscast in the role of Susie,<ref name="stranger">{{cite web |url=https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/10/29/34703161/feel-free-to-bail-when-suspiria-turns-into-a-satanic-thom-yorke-music-video |title=Feel Free to Bail When Suspiria Turns Into a Satanic Thom Yorke Music Video |last1=Selling |first1=Kim |last2=Zelman |first2=Joule |date=October 29, 2018 |website=[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] |location=Seattle, Washington|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030120715/https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/10/29/34703161/feel-free-to-bail-when-suspiria-turns-into-a-satanic-thom-yorke-music-video|archive-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> while Chang noted Swinton's performance as "one of her more restrained".<ref name=chang /> Michael O'Sullivan of ''The Washington Post'' alternately considered Swinton's performance a "tour-de-force".<ref name=osullivan /> Klimek praised the performances of all involved,<ref name=klimek /> while Ehrlich found Johnson's performance "thrillingly unrepentant".<ref name=ehrlich /> Truitt noted that Johnson "navigates [her role] with grace, and...&nbsp; captures just the right physicality in the various modern dances that ground the movie with a primordial weight and sexual energy."<ref name=truitt /> Sandy Schaefer of ''[[Screen Rant]]'' described Johnson's performance as "engaging" and Goth as "equally strong".<ref>{{cite web |website=[[Screen Rant]] |url=https://screenrant.com/suspiria-movie-2018-reviews/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027183857/https://screenrant.com/suspiria-movie-2018-reviews/|archive-date=October 27, 2018 |last=Schaefer |first=Sandy |title=Suspiria Review: Luca Guadagnino's Horror Film is No Mere Remake |date=October 27, 2018}}</ref>

The film's elaborate dance sequences were largely praised by critics. Gleiberman praised the dances, writing that they have "so much snap and thrust and rhythm you might call it an art-conscious cousin of the pop choreography of [[Bob Fosse]]...&nbsp; the movement is even more jutting and explosive, but it erupts from the women's souls." ''The New York Times'' stated in an article about the film's choreography: "finally, a film that gets dance right",<ref>{{cite web |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 2, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/arts/dance/luca-guadagnino-dance-suspiria-damien-jalet.html |title=Luca Guadagnino Unleashes the Witchy Power of Modern Dance |last=Kourlas |first=Gina|access-date=November 18, 2018|archive-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107030238/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/arts/dance/luca-guadagnino-dance-suspiria-damien-jalet.html|url-status=live}}</ref> while ''[[BBC]]'' reviewer Nicholas Barber says "the company's choreography is woven into the story. It's all deeply impressive."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180902-film-review-suspiria-is-just-not-very-scary |website=[[BBC]] |title=Film review: Suspiria is 'just not very scary' |last=Barber |first=Nicholas |date=September 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107023208/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180902-film-review-suspiria-is-just-not-very-scary|archive-date=November 7, 2018}}</ref> Alonso Duralde of ''[[TheWrap]]'', however, negatively compared them to the dance sequences in ''[[Showgirls (film)|Showgirls]]'' (1995) and ''[[Lost Horizon (1973 film)|Lost Horizon]]'' (1973), deeming the sequences "unintentionally hilarious pieces of choreography. The ludicrous terpsichorean display isn't helped by the costuming; the dancers all wear bright-red ropes tied in what appear to be Japanese [[Japanese bondage|Shibari]] bondage knots."<ref>{{cite web |website=[[TheWrap]] |url=https://www.thewrap.com/suspiria-film-review-luca-guadagnino-dakota-johnson-tilda-swinton-2018/ |last=Duralde |first=Alonso |date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905072129/https://www.thewrap.com/suspiria-film-review-luca-guadagnino-dakota-johnson-tilda-swinton-2018/|archive-date=September 5, 2018 |title='Suspiria' Film Review: Luca Guadagnino's Misguided Horror Remake Falls Flat}}</ref> Burr alternately praised the choreography, describing it as "propulsive...&nbsp; and ripe with the sight and sounds of exploding body parts."<ref name=burr />

Argento was critical of the film, stating that "it did not excite me, it betrayed the spirit of the original film: there is no fear, there is no music. The film [underwhelmed] me", but he did call the film's design "beautiful".<ref>{{cite web |website=Indie for Bunnies |language=it |title=DARIO ARGENTO STRONCA IL REMAKE DI "SUSPIRIA": "…HA TRADITO LO SPIRITO DELL'ORIGINALE: C'è POCA PAURA, NON C'è MUSICA" |date=January 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121030345/http://www.indieforbunnies.com/2019/01/18/dario-argento-stronca-il-remake-di-suspiria-ha-tradito-lo-spirito-delloriginale-ce-poca-paura-non-ce-musica/|archive-date=January 21, 2019 |url=http://www.indieforbunnies.com/2019/01/18/dario-argento-stronca-il-remake-di-suspiria-ha-tradito-lo-spirito-delloriginale-ce-poca-paura-non-ce-musica/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |website=The Film Stage |title=Dario Argento Says Luca Guadagnino's 'Suspiria' Remake "Betrayed the Spirit of the Original" |last=Pearce |first=Leonard |date=January 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121032102/https://thefilmstage.com/news/dario-argento-says-luca-guadagninos-suspiria-remake-betrayed-the-spirit-of-the-original/|archive-date=January 21, 2019 |url=https://thefilmstage.com/news/dario-argento-says-luca-guadagninos-suspiria-remake-betrayed-the-spirit-of-the-original/}}</ref>

===Lawsuit===
On September 27, 2018, it was reported that the film's American distributor, Amazon Studios, was being sued for copyright infringement by the estate of artist [[Ana Mendieta]]. The suit, filed in a federal court in [[Seattle]], Washington, alleged that two images present in the film's teaser trailer were plagiarized from Mendieta's work.<ref>{{cite web |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |title=Amazon Sued Over Use of Artist's Work in 'Suspiria' |author=Maddaus, Gene |date=September 27, 2018 |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/amazon-sued-suspiria-1202960972/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002045146/https://variety.com/2018/film/news/amazon-sued-suspiria-1202960972/|archive-date=October 2, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The first is an image of a woman's hands bound with rope on a white table, allegedly derived from Mendieta's ''[[Untitled (Rape Scene)]]'', and the other is the red silhouette of a body imprinted on a bedsheet, which was claimed to have been derived from her ''Silueta'' series.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ponder |first=Stacie |date=October 25, 2019 |title=SUSPIRIA Day 25: appropriate vs appropriation |url=http://finalgirl.rocks/2019/10/suspiria-day-25-appropriate-vs.html |access-date=October 25, 2019 |website=Final Girl |language=en-US |archive-date=October 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027075413/http://www.finalgirl.rocks/2019/10/suspiria-day-25-appropriate-vs.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

A [[cease and desist|cease-and-desist]] letter had been delivered to Amazon in July over the images, and they were not included in the subsequent theatrical trailer released the following month. According to the suit, both images had been excised from the film, but an alleged eight others bore notable similarities to other works by Mendieta. On October 24, 2018, two days before the film's US release, it was reported that Amazon Studios and the Mendieta estate had reached an undisclosed settlement.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/suspiria-copyright-case-amazon-studios-1202992394/ |title=Artist's Estate Settles 'Suspiria' Copyright Case Against Amazon Studios |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |first=Gene |last=Maddaus |date=October 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024231842/https://variety.com/2018/film/news/suspiria-copyright-case-amazon-studios-1202992394/|archive-date=October 24, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Accolades==
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|-
! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Award/association
! scope="col" style="width:8em;"| Date of ceremony
! scope="col" style="width:15em;"| Category
! scope="col"| Recipient(s) and nominee(s)
! scope="col"| Result
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4"| [[Venice Film Festival]]
| rowspan="4"| [[75th Venice International Film Festival|September 8, 2018]]
| [[Golden Lion]]
| [[Luca Guadagnino]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref name=aftab />
|-
| [[Queer Lion]]
| Luca Guadagnino
| {{nom}}
|style="text-align:center;" | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://eiuc.org/news-events/latest-news/news-detail-page/queer-lion-award-to-jose-by-li-cheng.html |website=[[European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation]] |title=Queer Lion Award to "José" by Li Cheng |date=October 9, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181028005646/https://eiuc.org/news-events/latest-news/news-detail-page/queer-lion-award-to-jose-by-li-cheng.html|archive-date=October 28, 2018}}</ref>
|-
| Premio Soundtrack Stars for Best Original Song
| "Suspirium" by [[Thom Yorke]]
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref name=collateral />
|-
| La Pellicola d'Oro Award for Special Effects
| {{sortname|Franco|Ragusa}}
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref name=collateral>{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/news/collateral-awards-75th-venice-film-festival |title=Collateral Awards Of The 75th Venice Film Festival |publisher=[[Venice Film Festival]] |date=September 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908213654/http://www.labiennale.org/en/news/official-awards-75th-venice-film-festival|archive-date=September 8, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[Independent Spirit Awards]]
| rowspan="2" | [[34th Independent Spirit Awards|February 23, 2019]]
| [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| [[Sayombhu Mukdeeprom]]
| {{Won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref name="indie nom1">{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/2019-independent-spirit-awards-nominations-1202021241/ |title=2019 Independent Spirit Awards Nominees, 'Eighth Grade' & 'We the Animals' Lead |first=Kate |last=Erbland |date=November 16, 2018 |website=[[IndieWire]] |publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126044211/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/2019-independent-spirit-awards-nominations-1202021241/|archive-date=November 26, 2018}}</ref>
|-
| [[Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award|Robert Altman Award]]
| Luca Guadagnino, [[Avy Kaufman]], Stella Savino, [[Małgosia Bela]], [[Ingrid Caven]], Elena Fokina, [[Mia Goth]], [[Jessica Harper]], [[Dakota Johnson]], Gala Moody, [[Chloë Grace Moretz]], [[Renée Soutendijk]], [[Tilda Swinton]], [[Sylvie Testud]] and [[Angela Winkler]]
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref name="indie nom1" />
|-
! scope="row"| [[Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association]]
| [[Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2018|December 3, 2018]]
| rowspan="2"| Best Original Score
| rowspan="2"| Thom Yorke
| {{Nominated}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://wafca.com/awards/ |title=2018 WAFCA Awards Nominations |date=December 1, 2018 |website=[[Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association]]|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181209100830/http://wafca.com/awards/|archive-date=December 9, 2018}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[Chicago Film Critics Association]]
| December 8, 2018
| {{Nominated}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://consequence.net/2018/12/chicago-film-critics-association-2018-nominees/ |website=[[Consequence of Sound]] |title=Chicago Film Critics Association announces 2018 nominees |author1=Suzanne-Mayer, Dominick |author2=Roffman, Michael|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181209101544/https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/12/chicago-film-critics-association-2018-nominees/|archive-date=December 9, 2018|url-status=live |date=December 7, 2018}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society
| December 7, 2018
| Best Sci-Fi/Horror Film
| rowspan="2"| ''Suspiria''
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://laofcs.org/los-angeles-online-film-critics-society-announces-its-2nd-year-nominations/ |author=Menzel, Scott |title=Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Announces Its 2nd Year Nominations |date=December 3, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181209100950/http://laofcs.org/los-angeles-online-film-critics-society-announces-its-2nd-year-nominations/|archive-date=December 9, 2018 |website=Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="6"| [[:fr:Indiana Film Journalists Association|Indiana Film Journalists Association]]
| rowspan="6"| December 17, 2018
| Best Picture
| {{draw|Runner-up}}
| rowspan="5" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://indianafilmjournalists.com/ |website=Indiana Film Journalists Association |title=IFJA 2018 Film Awards Eligible Films and Performances (as of 12/6/18) |date=December 7, 2018| archive-url=https://archive.today/20181209101305/http://indianafilmjournalists.com/|archive-date=December 9, 2018}}</ref>
|-
| Best Adapted Screenplay
| [[David Kajganich]]
| {{draw|Runner-up}}
|-
| Best Director
| Luca Guadagnino
| {{draw|Runner-up}}
|-
| Best Actress
| Dakota Johnson
| {{draw|Runner-up}}
|-
| Best Supporting Actress
| Tilda Swinton
| {{draw|Runner-up}}
|-
| Best Musical Score
| scope="row" rowspan="2"| Thom Yorke
| {{won}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://indianafilmjournalists.com/2018-ifja-film-awards |title="The Hate U Give" Tops 2018 Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards |date=December 17, 2018 |website=Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards|access-date=December 18, 2018|archive-date=December 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220081232/http://indianafilmjournalists.com/2018-ifja-film-awards|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | Philadelphia Film Critics Circle
|scope="row" rowspan="2"| December 9, 2018
| Best Score/Soundtrack
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://philafcc.org/2018/12/09/2018-pfcc-annual-awards/ |title=Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Names Roma the Best Film of 2018 |date=December 9, 2018 |website=Philadelphia Film Critics Circle|access-date=December 10, 2018|archive-date=December 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209165508/https://philafcc.org/2018/12/09/2018-pfcc-annual-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |New Mexico Film Critics Association
|Best Original Song
| "Suspirium" by Thom Yorke
| {{won}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.awardscircuit.com/2018/12/09/sunday-precursors-lafca-nyfco-new-mexico-all-announcing-check-back-for-updates/ |title=Sunday Precursors: LAFCA, NYFCO, New Mexico, Toronto (And More) All Announcing – Check Back for Updates! |date=December 9, 2018 |website=Awards Circuit|access-date=December 10, 2018|archive-date=December 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209211413/http://www.awardscircuit.com/2018/12/09/sunday-precursors-lafca-nyfco-new-mexico-all-announcing-check-back-for-updates/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[Seattle Film Critics Society]]
| scope="row" rowspan="2"| December 17, 2018
|Best Costume Design
| Giulia Piersanti
| {{nom}}
|scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://seattlefilmcritics.com/2018/12/17/roma-named-best-picture-of-2018-by-seattle-film-critics-society/ |title="ROMA" NAMED BEST PICTURE OF 2018 BY SEATTLE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY |date=December 17, 2018 |website=Awards Circuit|access-date=December 18, 2018|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217224405/http://seattlefilmcritics.com/2018/12/17/roma-named-best-picture-of-2018-by-seattle-film-critics-society/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Best Picture
|scope="row" rowspan="4"| ''Suspiria''
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[Critics' Choice Movie Awards|Critics' Choice Awards]]
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[24th Critics' Choice Awards|January 13, 2019]]
| Best Sci-Fi or Horror Movie
| {{Nominated}}
|scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.criticschoice.com/2018/12/announcing-nominees-24th-annual-critics-choice-awards/ |title=Announcing the Nominees for the 24th Annual Critics' Choice Awards |date=December 10, 2018 |website=Critics' Choice Awards|access-date=December 11, 2018|archive-date=August 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802151427/http://www.criticschoice.com/2018/12/announcing-nominees-24th-annual-critics-choice-awards/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| Best Hair and Makeup
| {{Nominated}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | December 15, 2018
| Best Horror Film
| {{nom}}
|scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phxcritics.com/awards-1/#2018-nominees |title=Phoenix Critics Circle Awards 2019 Nominees |date=December 12, 2018 |website=Phoenix Critics Circle|access-date=December 13, 2018|archive-date=January 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130110712/http://www.phxcritics.com/awards-1/#2018-nominees|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | Best Score
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | Thom Yorke
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row" | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
| December 14, 2018
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lvfcs.org/awards.html |title=2018 Sierra Award Winners |date=December 14, 2018 |website=Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards|access-date=December 14, 2018|archive-date=December 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226072840/http://www.lvfcs.org/awards.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[Houston Film Critics Society]] Awards
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | January 3, 2018
| {{Nominated}}
| scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |last1=Darling |first1=Cary |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies/article/The-Favourte-a-favorite-with-Houston-Film-13471597.php |title='The Favourite' a favorite with Houston Film Critics Society |date=December 17, 2018 |website=Houston Chronicle|access-date=December 18, 2018|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217224143/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies/article/The-Favourte-a-favorite-with-Houston-Film-13471597.php|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Best Poster
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | ''Suspiria''
| {{Nominated}}
|-
! scope="row" | Music City Film Critics Association Awards
| January 10, 2019
| Best Horror Film
| {{Nominated}}
|  scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nextbestpicture.com/the-2018-music-city-film-critics-association-mcfca-nominations/ |title=The 2018 Music City Film Critics Association (MCFCA) Nominations |date=December 21, 2018 |website=Next Best Picture|access-date=December 22, 2018|archive-date=October 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015232306/https://www.nextbestpicture.com/latest/the-2018-music-city-film-critics-association-mcfca-nominations|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" | [[Austin Film Critics Association]] Awards
| rowspan="2" | January 7, 2019
| Best Film
| {{Nominated}}
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nextbestpicture.com/the-2018-austin-film-critics-association-afca-nominations/ |title=The 2018 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations |date=December 27, 2018 |website=Best Next Picture|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=October 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015232315/https://www.nextbestpicture.com/latest/the-2018-austin-film-critics-association-afca-nominations|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Best Score
| Thom Yorke
| {{Nominated}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[Capri Hollywood International Film Festival]]
| rowspan="2"|January 2, 2019
| Producer of The Year
| [[Bradley J. Fischer]] ''(for Suspiria and other films)''
| {{won}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/suspiria-producer-bradley-j-fischer-be-honored-at-capri-hollywood-1170006 |title='Suspiria' Producer Bradley J. Fischer to Be Honored at Capri, Hollywood Festival |date=February 10, 2019 |website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=February 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011722/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/suspiria-producer-bradley-j-fischer-be-honored-at-capri-hollywood-1170006|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[Online Film Critics Society Awards]]
|Best Score
|Thom Yorke
|{{nominated}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://ofcs.org/awards/2018-awards-22nd-annual/ |title=2018 AWARDS (22ND ANNUAL) |date=February 10, 2019 |website=Online Film Critics Society|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=January 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102145337/http://ofcs.org/awards/2018-awards-22nd-annual|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[Dorian Awards]]
|January 8, 2019
|Campy Flick of the Year
| ''Suspiria''
| {{nominated}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://galeca.com/winners/ |title=2018/19 DORIANS AWARDS |date=February 10, 2019 |website=GALECA|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=February 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011646/http://galeca.com/winners/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[Georgia Film Critics Association]] Awards
|January 12, 2019
|Best Original Song
| "Suspirium" by Thom Yorke
| {{Nominated}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.georgiafilmcritics.org/p/2018-awards.html |title=Georgia Film Critics Association:2018 Awards |date=February 10, 2019 |website=Georgia Film Critics Association|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=January 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108045504/http://www.georgiafilmcritics.org/p/2018-awards.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | [[London Critics Circle Film Awards]]
| January 20, 2019
|[[London Film Critics' Circle Award for Technical Achievement|Technical Achievement Award]]
| Thom Yorke ''(music)''
|{{nominated}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/in-contention/roma-the-favourite-lead-london-critics-circle-winners-1203113042/ |title='Roma' and 'The Favourite' Lead London Critics' Circle Winners |date=February 10, 2019 |website=Variety|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=February 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212014247/https://variety.com/2019/film/in-contention/roma-the-favourite-lead-london-critics-circle-winners-1203113042/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | Chicago Indie Critics
|February 2, 2019
| Best Costume Design & Make-Up
| Giulia Piersanti (costumes), Fernanda Perez (makeup)
| {{Nominated}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://chicagoindiecritics.org/cifcc-awards/2018-awards/ |title=2018 CIC Award Winners |date=February 10, 2019 |website=Chicago Indie Critics|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=May 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518103527/https://chicagoindiecritics.org/cifcc-awards/2018-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | International Cinephile Society Awards
| February 3, 2019
| Best Score
| rowspan="2"| ''Suspiria''
| {{nominated}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://icsfilm.org/our-yearly-awards/2019-ics-award-winners/ |title=2019 ICS Awards Winners |date=February 10, 2019 |website=International Cinephile Society|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=February 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207015029/https://icsfilm.org/our-yearly-awards/2019-ics-award-winners/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" | ''Fangoria'' Awards
| rowspan="4" | February 25, 2019
| Best Limited Release Movie
|{{nominated}}
|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4" | <ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/movies/2019/01/22/fangoria-chainsaw-awards/ |title=Halloween, Hereditary, and A Quiet Place nominated for Best Movie… at Fangoria Awards |date=February 10, 2019 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-date=April 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426202102/https://ew.com/movies/2019/01/22/fangoria-chainsaw-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|Best Supporting Actress
|Tilda Swinton
|{{Won}}
|-
|Best Score
|Thom Yorke
|{{nominated}}
|-
|Best Makeup FX
|Mark Couiler
|{{Won}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[Grammy Awards]]
| [[62nd Grammy Awards|January 26, 2020]]
|Best Song Written for Visual Media
| "Suspirium" by Thom Yorke
|{{nom}}
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/news/2020-grammy-awards-nominations-complete-winners-list |title=2020 GRAMMY Awards: Complete Nominees List |date=November 20, 2019 |website=Variety|access-date=November 20, 2019|archive-date=January 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126102347/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/2020-grammy-awards-complete-nominees-list|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|}

==Proposed sequel==
''Suspiria'' had the working title of ''Suspiria: Part One'', with Guadagnino and Kajganich conceiving it as the first half of a bigger story. They planned ''Part Two'' to explore the origins of Madame Blanc and Helena Markos and the future of Suzy Bannion. The subtitle was dropped so that ''Suspiria'' would be thought of as a standalone work.<ref name=":2" />

Guadagnino said he would be interested in developing ''Part Two'' if the film were a commercial success.<ref name=":2">{{cite web |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |url=https://deadline.com/2018/08/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-amazon-dakota-johnson-comic-con-sequels-1202453398/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190125062817/https://deadline.com/2018/08/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-amazon-dakota-johnson-comic-con-sequels-1202453398/|archive-date=January 25, 2019 |title='Suspiria': Luca Guadagnino On Amazon's Wild First Horror Pic, Dakota Johnson, That Cinema-con Scene & Sequels |date=August 30, 2018 |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas}}</ref> He expressed interest in making a prequel about Markos, set hundreds of years before the first film, saying, "I have this image in my mind of Helena Markos in solitude in the year 1212 in Scotland or in Spain. Wandering through a village and trying to find a way on how she can manipulate the women of the village. I know she was there. I know it was six to seven hundred years before the actual storyline of this film."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3529657/luca-guadagnino-reveals-suspiria-prequel-idea-centers-helena-markos/ |date=October 27, 2018 |website=[[Bloody Disgusting]] |title=Luca Guadagnino Reveals 'Suspiria' Prequel Idea, Which Centers On Helena Markos |author=Squires, John|access-date=October 27, 2018|archive-date=October 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027061645/https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3529657/luca-guadagnino-reveals-suspiria-prequel-idea-centers-helena-markos/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2020, Guadagnino said a sequel was impossible, as ''Suspiria'' had been "a disaster at the box office".<ref name=":1" />

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
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