History Film / Suspiria2018

* PopularityCycle: This is how the Markos Tanz Company, or at least the coven part, works. The teachers have been looking for a new host body for the ailing Helena Markos/Mother Suspiriorum, so they have picked out young dancers whom they have sought to groom as vessels for Markos, aiding the targets' abilities as dancers/magical conduits by sharing and stealing power. If the dancers rebel and become a threat to the coven, they are tortured and [[spoiler: end up in a state of living death]]. This grooming is shown as having happened to Patricia, and after Patricia's disappearance, they consider using Sara as their jext attempt, but then pick Susie out to be the next victim once she arrives and wows the teachers. [[spoiler:But Susie is the real Mother Suspiriorum.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Susie. She violently takes over the coven at the end of the film and may have been a witch the whole time. On the other hand, her civil treatment of Dr. Klemperer and expelling the more heinous witches of the coven puts her more in an AdaptationalBadass role.]]

* CreepyBlueEyes: Sara [[spoiler:switching eye colors with Susie in the ''Volk'' sequence. Susie's turn brown.]]

* DevilInPlainSight: Unlike the 1977 original, the remake subverts this as the witches never kill anybody in a public place or do any other outlandish acts, and they erase the memories of the witnesses. Also, the recent RAF crisis gives them PlausibleDeniability regarding the disappearances of their students.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are hints that become evident on rewatch foreshadowing [[spoiler:that Susie is Mother Suspiriorum.]]

** Much sound-design emphasis is placed on the strenuous nature of Susie's dance, particularly [[spoiler:exhalations from the physical exertion. The whole film, Susie is being associated with ''sighs''.]]

** We see that as a child, Susie was interested in studying Germany, [[spoiler:perhaps subconsciously aware the followers of Mother Suspiriorum were located there.]]
** Susie is ex-Amish and abandoned the faith and her home because she didn't suit the lifestyle. [[spoiler:Being an ancient witch may have also had something to do with her incompatibility.]]

** Miss Griffith seems to have a more sensitive, weak, empathic nature, as shown by her silence, skittishness in the first scene overlooking Susie, and when she cries at the same time Olga does elsewhere. She also shocks the matrons by abruptly [[spoiler:stabbing herself in the neck and ending her life.]] These all taken together seem to hint that she was able to sense something terrible, like [[spoiler:Susie being the true Mother Suspiriorum, which would mean the tensions and pressures Griffith was unwillingly caught up in were entirely misguided and likely to doom those, including her, who voted for Markos.]]
** Susie's dying mother remarks that [[spoiler:Susie is her sin and the stain she smears on the world, and a later scene where she passes shows the lighting turning red as a claw crosses her face. Susie being the ancient witch reborn would justify her mother's statement, and we see that the red lighting and black claw were manifestations of Death, who Suspiriorum commands in the finale moments later with the same red filter over the scene.]]

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Much like the original film, the cast is largely female. This was part of the reason for the elaborate production/marketing hoax with Swinton playing the psychologist under heavy makeup and a pseudonym, to include Klemperer's male presence in the story while still keeping the cast almost entirely female.

* IronicEcho: "Death to any other mother." First said by "Mother" Markos to Susie. Then re-stated by Mother Suspiriorum as she [[spoiler:cleans house of all those who backed Helena.]]
* KissOfDeath: [[spoiler:Susie seals each request for a MercyKill with a kiss. The avatar of Death kills off Markos and her followers the same way, though the way it does so ends in YourHeadAsplode with the exception or Markos who seems to have had her soul sucked out with her body beginning to decompose instantly.]]

** Earlier in the film, a staff member plays that she is Madame Blanc when detectives come by, saying "I am she" to get them through and out faster. Later in the film, [[spoiler: Helena Markos claims herself to be Mother Suspiriorum, to which Susie, visiting the ritual, says "I am she", revealing herself to be the true lead witch.]]
** The witches' votes for Markos are repeated with talking-head shots at the climax of the film to remind the audience who in the coven was loyal to her as [[spoiler:the true Mother Suspiriorum eliminates the Markosites]].

* NaiveNewcomer: Susie, coming to the academy without any knowledge of its goings-on. [[spoiler:Allegedly. It's not clear whether or not her ignorance was only an act the whole time.]]

* NotHisSled: Like the 1977 original, the dance school is obviously run by witches, but in this version even the witches doubt if the legend about Mother Suspiriorum is true. The ending reveals that the elderly witch Helena Markos [[spoiler: is not Mother Suspiriorum, Susie Bannion is.]]

* OneWordTitle: Simply ''Suspiria''.
* PlausibleDeniability: Unlike the original, which was based on the AnthropicPrinciple that all the outrageous murders of anybody who gets on the witches' bad side are just ignored by everybody except the protagonist, in this version the ongoing RAF crisis helps the witches hide the disappearances of their students from the authorities, and also they use hypnosis to get rid of the policemen who (rather reluctantly and superficially) investigate the disappearances.
* PopularityCycle: This is how the Markoz Tanz Company ([[spoiler:or at least the coven part]]) works. The teachers pick a favorite whom they use for their spells in exchange for better dance skills before torturing and draining them. This is shown as happening to Patricia, and after Patricia's disappearance, they pick Susie out to be the next victim. [[spoiler:But Susie is Mother Suspiriorum.]]

* RemakeCameo: Jessica Harper (the original Suzy) has a small role as Anke.
* RightInFrontOfMe: [[spoiler:The witches' final ceremony is brought to an abrupt end when Susie asks Markos which of the three mothers she represents. When Markos responds that she has inherited the position of Mother Suspiriorum, Susie responds, "I am she."]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: Thom Yorke's beautiful, forlorn piano-driven song "Unmade" plays as [[spoiler:Susie[=/=]Mother Suspiriorum, the avatar of Death, strolls around the sabbath chamber killing left and right]], giving an otherwise disturbing sequence an air of haunting tragedy.
* SpiritualAntithesis: To the original film, believe it or not. Putting the two films side-by-side is one of the best examples possible of how two filmmakers can take virtually the exact same premise and come away with two radically different takes on it, from their visual styles to the beats of the story and how they progress.

* SweetieGraffiti: Klemperer and Anke's cottage has a heart carved into an outside corner, with their initials. [[spoiler: The last shot of the film is of the cottage, now occupied by a new family, with the heart faded but still present. Susie is seen touching it at the stinger too.]]

** At Susie's former home, shown during the opening credits, there is a framed adage hanging on the wall that says "A Mother is a woman who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take". [[spoiler:Mater Suspiriorum is being impersonated by Helena Markos. When the real Mater Suspiriorum arrives, she obliterates Markos and the witches who supported her.]]

** As the film progresses, Susie starts to get her own ideas on how the ''Volk'' dance should be performed, saying to Madame Blanc that her struggle in the jumping section comes from a feeling that it doesn't fit, and she later takes the dance off-beat and the official performance collapses. [[spoiler:Given that ''Volk'' is actually a kinetic witchcraft ritual, it seems that the artistic clash was also a clash of magical instincts, with the Suspiriorum within Susie disagreeing with how Blanc has crafted the ritual, as well as knowing it cannot actually work as long as Susie is the vessel.]]

** Susie's dying mother remarks that [[spoiler:Susie is her sin and the stain she smears on the world, and the lighting turns harshly red as a claw crosses her face. Susie being the ancient witch reborn would justify that statement, and we see that the red lighting and black claw were manifestations of Death, who Suspiriorum commands in the finale with the same visuals.]]
** A costume hint that has roots in homage to the original film's genre-- [[spoiler:as Susie matures and joins the matrons' dinner, she wears a more assertive grown-up ensemble paired with black leather gloves. The giallo film genre the original ''Suspiria'' hailed from famously used heavy costumes featuring black gloves (often focused on in kill scenes) to obscure the identity of the killer or primary threat in the film.]]

* IronicEcho: "No other mother." First said by "Mother" Markos to Susie. Then re-stated by Mother Suspiriorum as she [[spoiler:cleans house of all those who backed Helena.]]

* MeaningfulEcho: Earlier in the film, a staff member plays that she is Madame Blanc when detectives come by, saying "I am she" to get them through and out faster. Later in the film, [[spoiler: Helena Markos claims herself to be Mother Suspiriorum, to which Susie, visiting the ritual, says "I am she", revealing herself to be the true lead witch.]]

In 1977 [[UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} West Berlin]], Susie Bannon (Creator/DakotaJohnson) is a young American woman studying at one of the most renowned dance schools in the world: the Markos Tanz Company. As her skills gain the attention of head artistic director and choreographer Madame Blanc (Creator/TildaSwinton), a series of mysterious disappearances occurs, leading Susie, her friend Sara (Creator/MiaGoth), and the grieving elderly psychologist Dr. Josef Klemperer ("Lutz Ebersdorf" [[note]]actually Creator/TildaSwinton under heavy makeup[[/note]]) towards an investigation into the school that reveals dark secrets that the instructors likely wished to keep hidden.

''Suspiria'' is a 2018 {{supernatural|fiction}} {{horror}} film directed by Creator/LucaGuadagnino and written by David Kajganich, starring Creator/DakotaJohnson, Creator/TildaSwinton, and Creator/MiaGoth among others, with music composed by [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Thom Yorke]]. It is a ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' loose {{remake}} of the 1977 Creator/DarioArgento classic [[Film/Suspiria1977 of the same name]].

Guadagnino's ''Suspiria'' takes the original's story and atmosphere in a wholly different direction, changing its setting to the same year the original was released and eschewing Argento's famous exaggerated color schemes for bleak, wintry tones, among other modifications. He has described the film as an {{homage}} to the emotions he felt watching the original more than an explicit remake of it.

* PopularityCycle: This is how the Markoz Tanz Company [[spoiler:or at least the coven part]] works. The teachers pick a favorite whom they use for their spells in exchange for better dance skills before torturing and draining them. This is shown as happening to Patricia, and after Patricia's disappearance, they pick Susie out to be the next victim. [[spoiler:But Susie is Mother Suspiriorum.]]

* PopularityCycle: This is how the Markoz Tanz Company [[spoiler:or at least the coven part]] works. The teachers pick a favorite who they use for their spells in exchange for better dance skills before torturing and draining them. This is shown as happening to Patricia, and after Patricia's disappearance, they pick Susie out to be the next victim. [[spoiler:But Susie is Mother Suspiriorum.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Was Susie an ambitious-if-naïve dancer who was corrupted by the coven's magic into becoming a vessel for Mother Suspiriorum even before the Volk ritual was completed, or [[EvilAllAlong was she Mother Suspiriorum the whole time]], and used the events of the movie as a way to prove who was loyal to her and exact revenge on those who weren't?]]

** A costume hint that has roots in homage to the original film's genre-- [[spoiler:as Susie matures and joins the matrons' dinner, she wears a more assertive grown-up ensemble paired with black leather gloves. The giallo film genre the original ''Suspiria'' hailed from famously used heavy costumes featuring black gloves (often focused on on kill scenes) to obscure the identity of the killer or primary threat in the film.]]

** Susie is ex-Amish and abandoned the faith and her home because she didn't suit the lifestyle. [[spoiler:Being an ancient witch may have also had something to due with her incompatibility.]]

** A costume hint that has roots in homage to the original film's genre-- [[spoiler:as Susie matures and joins the matrons' dinner, she wears a more assertive grown-up ensemble paired with black leather gloves. The giallo film genre the original ''Suspiria'' hailed from famously used black gloves to obscure the hands of the killer or primary threat in the film and keep their identity a mystery.]]

** As the film progresses, Susie starts to get her own ideas on how the ''Volk''' dance should be performed, saying to Madame Blanc that her struggle in the jumping section comes from a feeling that it doesn't fit, and she later takes the dance off-beat and the official performance collapses. [[spoiler:Given that ''Volk'' is actually a kinetic witchcraft ritual, it seems that the artistic clash was also a clash of magical instincts, with the Suspiriorum within Susie disagreeing with how Blanc has crafted the ritual, as well as knowing it cannot actually work as long as Susie is the vessel.]]
** Miss Griffith seems to have a more sensitive, weak, empathic nature, as shown by her silence, skittishness, and when she cries at the same time Olga does elsewhere, and she shocks the matrons by abruptly [[spoiler:stabbing herself in the neck and ending her life.]] This last point seems to be a hint that she learned something terrible, like [[spoiler:Susie being the true Suspiriorum, which would mean the tensions and pressures Griffith was unwillingly caught up in were entirely misguided and likely to doom those, including her, who voted for Markos.]]

** Miss Griffith seems to have a more sensitive, weak, empathic nature, as shown by her silence, skittishness, and when she cries at the same time Olga does elsewhere, and she shocks the matrons by abruptly [[spoiler:stabbing herself in the neck and ending her life.]] This last point seems to be a hint that she learned something terrible, like [spoiler:Susie being the true Suspiriorum, which would mean the tensions and pressures Griffith was unwillingly caught up in were entirely misguided and likely to doom those, including her, who voted for Markos.]]
** Susie's dying mother remarks that [[spoiler:Susie is her sin and the stain she smears on the world, and the lighting turns harshly red as a claw crosses her face. Susie being the ancient witch reborn would justify that statement, and we later see that the red lighting and black claw were manifestations of Death, who Suspiriorum commands in the finale with the same visuals.]]

* Foreshadowing: There are hints that become evident on rewatch foreshadowing [[spoiler:that Susie is Mother Suspiriorum.]]

** Miss Griffith seems to have a more sensitive, weak, empathic nature, as shown by her silence, skittinshness, and when she cries at the same time Olga does elsewhere, and she shocks the matrons by abruptly [[spoiler:stabbing herself in the neck and ending her life.]] This last point seems to be a hint that she picked up on [[spoiler:Susie being the true leader of the coven, and thus she killed herself due to the rising tensions being entirely misguided and catching her up in the middle of them.]]

* NotHisSled: Like the 1977 original, the dance school is obviously run by witches, but in this version even the witches doubt if the legend about Mother Suspiriorum is true. The ending reveals that the elderly witch Helena Markos [[spoiler: is not Mother Suspiriorum, Susie Banyon is.]]

* FanDisservice: In the finale, most of the dance company is naked, and Susie is wearing an AbsoluteCleavage robe. Even though they're all young and beautiful, however, the jerky, frenetic movements of the dancers (plus the strong implication they can't stop), combined with [[spoiler: Susie's VaginaDentata right between her breasts]] and the general amount of blood and gore, makes it all very ''un''sexy.

* WhamLine: When [[spoiler: the figure of Death enters the ritual room]], Susie [[spoiler: asks Markos which of the Three Mothers appointed her leader of the Coven]], to which [[spoiler: Markos says Mother Suspiriorum did]]. Susie's response then twists ''everything'' on it's head for the movie.

* AdaptationalVillainy:[[spoiler: Susie. She violently takes over the coven at the end of the film and may have been a witch the whole time. On the other hand, her civil treatment of Dr. Klemperer and expelling the more heinous witches of the coven puts her more in an AdaptationalBadass role.]]

''Suspiria'' is a 2018 {{supernatural|fiction}} {{horror}} film directed by Creator/LucaGuadagnino and written by David Kajganich, starring Creator/DakotaJohnson, Creator/TildaSwinton, and Mia Goth among others, with music composed by [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Thom Yorke]]. It is a ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' loose {{remake}} of the 1977 Creator/DarioArgento classic [[Film/Suspiria1977 of the same name]].

In 1977 [[UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} West Berlin]], Susie Bannon (Creator/DakotaJohnson) is a young American woman studying at one of the most renowned dance schools in the world: the Markos Tanz Company. As her skills gain the attention of head artistic director and choreographer Madame Blanc (Creator/TildaSwinton), a series of mysterious disappearances occurs, leading Susie, her friend Sara (Mia Goth), and the grieving elderly psychologist Dr. Josef Klemperer ("Lutz Ebersdorf" [[note]]actually Creator/TildaSwinton under heavy makeup[[/note]]) towards an investigation into the school that reveals dark secrets that the instructors likely wished to keep hidden.

-->--'''Susie Bannon'''

In 1977 [[UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} West Berlin]], Susie Bannon (Creator/DakotaJohnson) is a young American woman studying at one of the most renowned dance schools in the world: the Markos Tanz Company. As her skills gain the attention of head artistic director and choreographer Madame Blanc (Creator/TildaSwinton), a series of mysterious disappearances occurs, leading Susie, her friend Sara (Mia Goth), and the grieving elderly psychologist Dr. Josef Klemperer ("Lutz Ebersdorf" [[note]]actually Creator/TildaSwinton under heavy makeup[[/note]]) towards an investigation into the school that reveals dark secrets that the instructors likely wished to remain hidden.

Guadagnino's ''Suspiria'' takes the original's story and atmosphere in a wholly different direction, changing its setting to the same year the original was released and eschewing its famous exaggerated color schemes for bleak, wintry tones, among other modifications. He has described the film as an {{homage}} to the emotions he felt watching the original more than an explicit remake of it.

* DevilInPlainSight: Unlike the 1977 original, the remake subverts this as the witches never kill anybody in a public place or do any other outlandish acts, and they erase the memories of the witnesses. Also, the recent Bader-Meinhof crysis gives them plausible deniability regarding the disappearances of their students.

* NotHisSled: Like the 1977 original, the dance school is obviously run by witches, but in this version even the witches doubt if the legend about Mother Suspiriorum is true. The ending reveals that the elderly witch Helena Markos [[spoiler: is not Mother Suspiriorum, Suzie Banyon is.]]