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It's a very good cult/arthouse horror movie. Imagine Shape of Water made by a really bitter divorced guy on LSD. Isabelle Adjani gives one of the best performances put to film. The subway scene (the one in all the memes) is iconic.
It's also an intensely personal movie that draws most of its power from the director's authorship and the circumstances of his life (Zulawski really was getting divorced at the time), so I really don't know what a remake would accomplish. Unless Parker Finn has a really novel take, all I can imagine is one of those play-the-hits Disney live-action remakes for the Letterboxd crowd.
Our only hope is a radically different interpretation, i.e. Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, I'm afraid. Even then, I suspect it will pale in comparison, as the 2018 Suspiria did.