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- Anticlimax Boss: Helena Markos
- Big Lipped Alligator Moment: For all the squick involved, the maggots have absolutely nothing to do with the plot.
- Crowning Music of Awesome: The entire score by Goblin is pretty impressive.
- Fridge Horror: The third film reveals that evil witches are cannibals. Knowing this, Madame Blanc's attributing the rain of maggots to "spoiled food" makes more sense.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Pat's murder, Sara's death, Helena Marcos. It's widely considered one of Argento's masterpieces and most gory movies.
- Hype Backlash
- Narm: "So! You've come to kill Helena Markos! A ha ha ha!"
- Averted in the original Italian dub 'I'm coming, American! And let the living meet the dead, and the dead the living...'
- Mostly all of Helena Markos' lines in the English dub are overly hammy.
- The bat near the end of the movie. Seriously, had anyone who worked on that movie even seen a real bat?
- The first victim's name happens to be Pat Hingle. It's either an unfortunate coincidence or one of the weirdest Shout Outs in the history of cinema.
- Knowing Argento, it's most likely a Shout-Out.
- Also, the US trailer for the movie. "But the Iris is the flower that will be THE END OF YOOOOOOOOOOOU!"
- Which is said over the image of a girl brushing her hair only to reveal that her head is a skull!... which looks like its right out of a local neighbor's halloween decorations.
- Sequelitis: 1980's Inferno and (to a far greater extent) 2007's Mother of Tears.
- Squick: Nothing like brushing maggots out of your hair.