DirectorLuca Guadagninohas alreadysaidthat he wants hisSuspiriaremake to be “the most disturbing experience you can have.” Welp, the lead-up to the film has alreadyscarred a fewCinemaCon critics for life, earnedan R-ratingfor, among other things, “ritualistic violence and graphic nudity,” and sparkeda debateas to whether or notTilda Swintonis playing an 80-year-old man under heavy prosthetic makeup. Good work so far, Luca! Now, Amazon Studios has released the first full clip from the film, and surprise surprise, it is deeply unnerving on every level.
The footage sees Swinton’s Madame Blanc at the head of her renowned dance studio introducing a new piece to her class. “A piece about rebirths,” she says. “The inevitable pull that they exert and our efforts to escape them.”
At the center of the piece will be Susie Bannon (Dakota Johnson), who Blanc encourages to “improvise freely.” As Johnson contorts her body into a few chiropractic nightmares and cinematographerSayombhu Mukdeepromfloats around the dance space like a ghost, we cut to a bloodied, long-nailed hand reaching up from some unspeakable depth. That’s probably gonna' be fine for everyone involved.
Check out the entire clip below.Suspiria—which also starsMia Goth,Chloe Grace Moretz, and, uh, elderly newcomerLutz Ebersdorf—hits theaters November 2.
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Here is the official synopsis forSuspiria:
As a darkness builds at the center of a world-renown dance company, its artistic director (Swinton), a young American new to the troupe (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf) become entangled in a bloody, sighing nightmare.
