In the years since its release, "Suspiria" has been cited by critics as a cult film. In the book "European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945" (2012), the film is noted for being an "exemplar of Eurohorror...it is excessive but here the excess seems to entail a more forceful retardation of a narrative drive, to the extent that the narrative periodically ceases to exist." "Suspiria" has been praised by film historians and critics for its emphasized employment of color and elaborate set-pieces; film scholar John Kenneth Muir notes that "each and every frame of "Suspiria" is composed with an artistic, remarkable attention to color."