On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 93% score based on 57 retrospectively collected reviews, with an average rating of 8.37/10. The website's critical consensus states: "The blood pours freely in Argento's classic "Suspiria", a giallo horror as grandiose and glossy as it is gory." Rotten Tomatoes also ranked it number 41 on their 2010 list of the greatest horror films. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".