Suspiria (2018)

The new Suspiria will probably be known as “the new Suspiria” until someone makes a third one. Which is a shame because it’s different enough to be interesting. Unlike every Argento film I’ve seen that isn’t Suspiria.

(Still not beating Black Swan as my favourite ballet troupe horror film, though.)

It uses 1970s Berlin as a setting much more than the original, which was set and partially shot in Germany for funding reasons - the Berlin Wall is right outside the school, and there’s the questionably tasteful choice to have the Baader-Meinhof group featured in the news throughout and used as an excuse to cover a character disappearing.

It also uses dance itself much more extensively too, as a ritual and occult thing.

Of course, being an hour longer than the original helps with the whole “coherence” thing.

And it never has a line of exposition like “And she founded the Tam academy, at first a sort of school of dance and occult sciences.”