The Cinematheque

“After all the years I have been making these films, I would probably make a pretty good murderer.”

Dario Argento

Dubbed the ​“Italian Hitchcock” for his mastery of whodunit horror in the gore-gushing giallo tradition, legendary screen-scream director Dario Argento holds court as one of scary cinema’s most stylish and subversive auteurs. This Halloween, feast your eyeballs—and, with scores by Ennio Morricone and prog-rockers Goblin, eardrums!—on a trio of lurid 1970s ​“spaghetti slashers” from the maestro of by-the-bucket blood spillage, all screening in brilliant 4K restorations. ​“Don’t Lose Your Head!” includes Argento’s Hitch-indebted directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970); his giallo take on Antonioni’s Blow-Up, Deep Red (1975); and, of course, his unequivocal masterpiece Suspiria (1977), a bravura of hallucinogenic terror that countryman Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) has reimagined for a forthcoming, highly anticipated remake.

Don’t Lose Your Head! Halloween Party Wednesday, October 31
Cash Bar, Goblin Ballet & Suspiria
7:00 pm – Doors
8:00 pm – Goblin-scored ballet by Dancinema
8:30 pm – Suspiria

Gorehounds! Ring in the unholy holiday at our Don’t Lose Your Head! Halloween Party, featuring costumes, a cash bar, a specially choreographed ballet from Vancouver-based Dancinema, and a screening of Argento’s neon-nightmare Suspiria.

19+
Tickets: $15 in advance; $20 at the door
No membership required
No passes will be accepted for this event