Unfortunately, Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” didn’t have the major box office run that Amazon (and those folks involved) probably hoped for. After an impressive limited run, the film just seemed to never find it’s target audience. But honestly, who is the target audience for a horror film that’s over two-and-a-half hours long that features a political subplot and lots of dancing?
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That being said, once you see the film, story problems aside, there is no shortage of impressive practical effects work on display. Without getting into too many details, bones are broken, heads are lopped off, and monsters definitely do show up. And in a new featurette, released by Amazon, the prosthetics master Mark Coulier discusses how he created some of the film’s most horrifying scenes and how Guadagnino contributed in creating some of the most disturbing imagery in any film of the last year.
**Spoilers ahead for “Suspiria”**
Now, if you’ve seen the film, you’ll no doubt wonder how the hell the team was able to pull off the incredible dance scene where Dakota Johnson’s Susie unknowingly performs a routine that disfigures and ultimately kills a fell dancer in another room. The scene is incredibly violent and surprisingly practical, as Coulier describes in the video.
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And the image of Death at the end of the film? You can see how he/she/it looked in full light, and where the design for the creature/entity came from. And for shits and giggles, you can see the amount of effects work went into the death scene of Madame Blanc, aka Tilda Swinton, who gets a nasty cut on her neck.
Overall, the video not only shows the incredible amount of work that went into creating some of the horrific images in the film, but also is evidence of the sheer amount of details that are in each and every scene of “Suspiria,” which many won’t get the chance to see on the big screen, as it deserves.