{"id":2884,"date":"2012-05-17T14:24:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T20:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2012-05-17T14:24:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T20:24:35","slug":"dont-remake-suspiria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=2884","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Remake Suspiria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAs a long time horror film buff, I absolutely loved Suspiria. \u2028\u2028Released in 1977, Suspiria is director Dario Argento\u2019s masterpiece.<\/p>\n

The movie is an incredible visual and aural nightmare, with amazing set pieces and a groundbreaking score from the Italian progressive rock band Goblin, who also performed the soundtrack for the original Dawn of the Dead.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n

Like Phantasm, Suspiria was born of a very personal filmmaking vision, it\u2019s way more of a visual experience than one that relies on linear storytelling, and there\u2019s truly no horror film like it.<\/p>\n

As regular TG Daily readers know, I\u2019m generally against remakes, and although there are talented people involved in rebooting Suspiria, I think remaking it could be a big mistake on the level of Halloween.<\/p>\n

In remaking Halloween, the story was very simple, and it was the artistry that John Carpenter brought to the film that raised it above the usual B movie fodder. Without a strong director at the helm, it\u2019s just another guy in a mask running around with a knife movie. Similarly, another director taking on Suspiria will probably turn it into just another horror film.<\/p>\n

Yes, David Gordon Green, who\u2019s onboard to remake Suspiria, is a talented and versatile filmmaker (Pineapple Express, Undertow, George Washington), and Rob Zombie has a lot of potential as a filmmaker too, but remaking Halloween was borderline blasphemy, and any hack could have come aboard to tackle it. \u2028\u2028Similarly, this could be another mis-step for Green\u2019s career after the disaster of Your Highness, and the middling comedy The Sitter.<\/p>\n

Dario Argento has always sworn he would fight a remake of Suspiria with everything in his being, and clearly he lost the battle. The original film will always stand as a masterpiece of the genre, as will Halloween, no matter the remakes, it\u2019s just a shame to see Dimension plundering two horror classics like this for little more than a quick buck.