Luca Guadagnino’s Unmade ‘Suspiria’ Sequel Sounds Like It Would’ve Been Off The Walls
By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 13, 2020 2:00 pm EST
But when asked if we would ever get to see Part 2, Guadagnino replied, “How? How, my dear? The movie made absolutely nothing. It was a disaster at the box office. I know that people are liking it more and more now. I loved making that movie. It’s very dear to me. But writer David Kajganich and I had really conceived it as the first half of a bigger story.”
So what would the Suspiria sequel have been about? Guadagnino revealed his plans, which sounds like it would have carried on with the tone of his 2018 film’s lurid and insane second half:
Guadagnino telling a story of satanic witches in 1200s Scotland? With Tilda Swinton reprising her role as Helena Markos in an origin story that would have allowed the ethereal actress to vamp and chew the scenery even more in a film that bends space and time? That would have been a delicious follow-up to the 1977-set Suspiria, and sounds like it would have been like Guadagnino’s take on Robert Eggers’ chilly paranoid horror film The Witch, with a dash of the cosmic.
“But with Suspiria, I can tell you that in part two the storyline was layered in five different time zones and spaces. One of these was Helena Markos being a charlatan woman in the year 1200 in Scotland and how she got the secret of longevity.”
