Suspiria [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

It was an audacious move for Italian director Luca Guadagnino to remake cult classic Suspiria, and one which many felt fell short of the original’s startling sensory feast. As Guadagnino drastically toned down the bad acid trip fever dream of Dario Argento’s 1977 film, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke wisely steered clear of the proggy extremism of Goblin’s OST, itself considered the high-water mark of Italian horror film soundtracks. Instead, Yorke creates a far more minimal backdrop of terror, but one with its own unsettling, mesmeric beauty. The occasional use of loops, drones, vintage synths and tape manipulation here subtly nods to his forebears, while the nightmarish trip hop of “Has Ended” would have been worthy of inclusion in any number of late period Radiohead albums.