Suspiria reviews: Dakota Johnson’s new horror divides critics – boos, cheers and WALKOUTS

The Luca Guadagnino-helmed remake currently has a 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating a split reaction – but more positive than negative.

Multiple reports from the festival have claimed that audience members actually walked out of the screening because it was too gory and disturbing, whereas others gave it a standing ovation at the end.

In a three-star write-up, The Guardian said: “There are smart moments of fear and subliminal shivers of disquiet, the dance sequences are good and of course Guadagnino could never be anything other than an intelligent film-maker.

“But this is a weirdly passionless film.”

The Telegraph gave a full five stars, saying: “Suspiria draws a complex, provocative line through faith, politics, dance and, yes, witchcraft: in all cases, a group of resolute like minds can birth something more powerful and dangerous than themselves.”

Time Out agreed, writing: “Traditional horror fans won’t be pleased: Almost transgressively, Guadagnino has deprioritized the shocks, even the fear.

“But in their place, he’s pumped up the exotic strangeness and crafted a movie you can get lost in, which is the ultimate tribute.”

TIME magazine, meanwhile, did not take to the movie at all. They said: “This new Suspiria is bland, grisly, boring and silly. There is nothing poetic or erotic about it.”

Variety also railed against it, saying: “By the time it drags itself to the finish line, you may think, ‘Okay, now we know what Suspiria looks like as an art film.

“‘Can we please go back to when it was just a garishly flamboyant piece of bat-house trash?’”

And The Hollywood Reporter said: “Guadagnino has made an ambitious homage, but it doesn’t really benefit from its more intellectualized gaze, instead draining the stomach-churning thrills of great horror.”

IndieWire gave an A- grade, reasoning: “Suspiria is a film of rare and unfettered madness, and it leaves behind a scalding message that’s written in pain and blood: The future will be a nightmare if we can’t take responsibility for the past.”

Dakota Johnson of Fifty Shades fame leads the cast, with Tilda Swinton and Chloe Grace Moretz also on board.

Johnson revealed that she had to go into therapy when filming finished, because of the unsettling nature of the production.

The original Suspiria is a cult classic, released back in 1977.

This new version is out on November 2.