Scorpion with Two Tails

Scorpion with Two Tails

198294 min4.7 / 10

A paranoid, atmospheric 1980s horror-mystery that blends supernatural dread with a whodunit structure, anchored by an Etruscan curse and the protagonist's nightmarish visions.

An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.

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