 dario argento s genre classic is only the detonation point of luca guadagnino s film it keeps some elements of the plot but redefines the historical context once again the location is germany but this time it is berlin where the still corrupt nation has failed to clear itself of those who had produced the horror of the nazi era in sharp contrast the red army faction fights for a new germany with other means of terror the markos tanz company is the stage of a supernatural dimension in which a triad of ancestral divine presences control the events of the world provided they feed their own power structure witchcraft is real when it is used to justify atrocities like the wickedness of the third reich guadagnino reunites past and present weaves together quotations evocations imagery politics art and psychoanalysis in a gesture of formal rebellion of the cinematographic language which is bloody pulsating unstoppable the soundtrack composed by thom yorke radiohead and the choreography by damien jalet propel the visionary force of the film it multiplies in a linguistic dance that mentions the revolutionary role of the performative art of the 1970 s which called into question power and identity by digesting violence through the experience of the body luca guadagnino  