‘Suspiria’ Remake Compared To Kubrick, Made Quentin Tarantino Cry
By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 2, 2018 3:30 pm EST
But as Guadagnino remains tight-lipped about his upcoming remake, Suspiria star Moretz is ready to step up to do the work of hyping up the film for him. Moretz gave effusive praise to Guadagnino’s Suspiria while she was at an event during the Provincetown Film Festival earlier this month (via IndieWire):
For Moretz, who has starred in her share of horror remakes like Let Me In and Carrie, this is high praise. The actress stars as Patricia Hingle, who is played by Eva Axén in the original, but couldn’t divulge too many details. “It’s secretive and I want it to be secretive because you guys are gonna be so shocked. It is WILD. It’s crazy,” she added.
“This is a really big statement, but this is the closest to modern Stanley Kubrick I’ve ever seen. You’re put into a world, which I can only describe it as being like ‘The Shining’ in a lot of ways, where you’re just encompassed in a filmmaker’s brain and you’re just implanted in there, and there’s nothing like it that you will ever see.”
The Kubrick comparisons are a high bar for Guadagnino, especially since his style is worlds away from the cold, calculating direction of Kubrick. But from what we’ve seen of Suspiria, Guadagnino reigns in his usual dreamy aesthetic for a more subdued and sinister atmosphere.
But Moretz wasn’t the only one to gush about Guadagnino’s Suspiria. The Italian director revealed that he had showed the full film to none other than Quentin Tarantino, a director pretty well-versed in wild filmmaking. And it got an even better reaction than he anticipated, moving The Hateful Eight director to tears, Guadagnino revealed to the Italian publication La Repubblica:
We’ll have to see if Suspiria lives up to the hypewhen it opens in theaters on November 2, 2018.
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