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Dario Argento — the wonderfully deranged Italian horror maestro behind genre-defining classics like Suspiria, Tenebrae, and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage — brings us what many fans consider his greatest work, and the ultimate giallo film: Deep Red. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, this special late-evening screening on Halloween night.

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Late one evening, while wandering the streets of Rome, English jazz pianist Marcus Daly (David Hemmings — Blow-Up, Gladiator) witnesses a brutal axe murder through the window of a high-rise apartment. Rushing to the scene in an attempt to catch the killer, Marcus finds he’s already too late… or is he? What unfolds is a deliciously twisted mystery that draws both Marcus and eccentric journalist Gianna Brezzi (Daria Nicolodi) into a surreal web of murder, memory, and misdirection.

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Deep Red is a hyper-stylised noir drenched in Argento’s signature aesthetic — with arguably the most dazzling cinematography of his entire career, all underscored by a pulsing, prog-rock soundtrack from his legendary collaborators, Goblin. Released at the height of Italy’s giallo craze — a movement defined by stylish, violent murder mysteries — Deep Red features some of the most inventive and shocking set-pieces in all of horror cinema. While Suspiria (made directly after this) may be Argento’s most famous film, Deep Red, presented here in a gorgeous new 4K restoration of it's full length original cut, is widely considered his crowning achievement, where his cinematic trademarks are at their most refined and ferociously imaginative.

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Join us for this terrifying late-night screening — or make a full night of it with a discounted joint ticket for our earlier showing of Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, for a Halloween double bill soaked in blood-red horror and lavish, scarlet-tinged spookiness.