Suspiria (1977)
The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 80.
Genre : Horror
Runtime : 1H 39M
Director : Dario Argento
Writer : Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi
Synopsis
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
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