Luca Guadagnino’s SUSPIRIA is neither remake nor reboot. Rather, it’s a re-interpretation of the source—Thomas de Quincey’s Suspiria de Profundis. In Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic, often mischaracterized as Giallo, Nicolodi’s script rooted itself in the xenophobic superstitions of her grandmother.
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