 Suspiria (1976)
Susie,
a young American dance student arrives in Germany (during a
rainstorm of biblical proportions) and finds horror at a bizarre
ballet school.
Shortly thereafter a woman is attacked through a window,
suffocated, stabbed repeatedly through the heart and dropped
through a glass skylight and hanged by a noose.
A second woman is killed by the falling shattered skylight when
a broken beam impales her to the floor and a sheet of glass slices
her face in half . . . worse still, the Dance School don't have a
room ready for the American girl yet.
Luckily, she meets the dentally-challenged handyman and a woman
called Olga who is to be her landlady. Susie also has to borrow a
pair of dance shoes - Which part of "Dance Student" did
she not understand exactly?. She also learns that "names that
begin with the letter 's' are the names of snakes" (!?!?!).

The fact that the plot is totally incomprehensible only adds to
the hallucinogenic atmosphere. Hypnotic but oh so repetitive and
ear-splitting musical track accompanied by a multitude of
gratuitous hissings, sighings and groanings which wear thin after
the first ten minutes.
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