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Original ‘Suspiria’ Star Jessica Harper Raves About Remake: “Brilliant Scary Film”
Director Luca Guadagnino‘s new take on Dario Argento’s Suspiria has been the talk of the horror community this last several days, with footage shown off at CinemaCon last week blowing the minds of even the most hardcore horror fans. The scene was described in lurid detail by several people over on Twitter, and you won’t yet find it online.
Amy Kaufman tweeted, “I am traumatized after seeing a scene from “Suspiria” in which Dakota Johnson controls the body of another woman as she dances. The woman’s body literally cracks in half. She is like, torn apart. Spitting, urinating, bleeding. It’s… A lot.”
Dakota Johnson plays main character Susie Bannion in the remake, a role played in the original by Jessica Harper. On her official Facebook page over the weekend, Harper (who has at least a small role in Guadagnino’s remake) revealed that she’s seen the finished film, and she raved about how much justice Guadagnino did to Argento’s classic.
“I have seen this movie–the most brilliantly scary film I have ever seen,” Harper wrote. “Luca’s Call Me By Your Name does not prepare you for it, but throws into relief the director’s brilliance and versatility…”
The film has been set for a Fall 2018 release.
In Suspiria, “A young American ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is something far more sinister and supernatural. She becomes increasingly terrified after a series of gruesome murders ensue and she slowly unravels the dark history of the academy.”
The cast also includes Chloe Grace-Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Sylvie Testud, Angela Winkler, Małgosia Bela and Lutz Ebersdorf.
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke composed the score.
David Kajganich wrote the film, co-financed by Amazon Studios and K Period Media.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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