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Review:

American dancer Suzy enrolls at a German “Tanz Akademie” (where everybody speaks English). The night she arrives, another student flees the school in panic and is brutally murdered shortly thereafter. The academy turns out to be a sheer nightmare: the staff is a complete freak show, the dorms are maggot infested, and it seems like the headmistress has Suzy drugged whenever she feels like it. Suzy talks to Sarah, who used to be a friend of the girl that was murdered at the beginning of the movie, and she gets the impression that witchcraft may be involved.

Dario Argento is said to be one of Europe’s greatest directors of horror and giallo, and I can see why. The sets do not even try to look realistic, the movie makes excessive overuse of light and color, it all looks like a dream, like a trip, unreal… Maybe surreal? Well this is not arthouse, this is an extremely well crafted horror movie starring the adorable Jessica Harper.

In short: me like!

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