FILM SERIES
Sharpen your razor and slip on your black gloves as we celebrate this classic crime and mystery horror sub-genre with the January Giallo series all month long!
“Giallo” refers to a style of Italian-produced mystery-thriller films which rose to popularity in the 60s and 70s. Filled with atmosphere, suspense, crime, as well as eroticism, psychological horror, and slasher violence, classic and contemporary Giallo films — from Italy and beyond — continue to surprise and terrify.
January Giallo is co-presented by Cinematic Void and Anomaly – The Rochester Genre Film Festival.
Save these 2026 dates — The Little’s 5th year of January Giallo!
Friday, January 9 | 7:30pm
Thursday, January 15 | 7:30pm
Friday, January 23 | 7:30pm
Thursday, January 29 | 7:30pm
UPCOMING
The House with Laughing Windows – Jan. 9
JANUARY GIALLO | Friday, January 9 at 7:30pm | Stefano is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village, whose original artist is rumored to be a madman who tortured his subjects.
Alice, Sweet Alice (35mm) – Jan. 15
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 15 at 7:30pm | In 1961, divorced Catholics Dom and Catherine’s lives are upended when their teenage daughter is suspected of brutally murdering her younger sister during her First Holy Communion.
Felidae – Jan. 23
JANUARY GIALLO x WORLD OF ANIMATION | Friday, January 23 at 7:30pm | A cat must investigate brutal murders of other cats in a neighborhood he has moved into with his owner, in this rarely-seen 1994 German animated film.
Tenebrae – Jan. 29
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 29 at 7:30pm | Giallo master Dario Argento’s 1982 classic: An American novelist promoting his latest book in Rome is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.
PAST
My Dear Killer – Jan 28, 2022
JANUARY GIALLO • Friday, January 28 at 7:30pm • This 1972 Italian thriller features a mysterious decapitation that leads an inspector into a case of blackmail, deceit, and kidnapping.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – Jan 5, 2023
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 5 at 7:30pm | Theatre 1 | Master of horror Dario Argento’s 1970 film, where an American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city.
Lizard in a Woman’s Skin – Jan 13, 2023
JANUARY GIALLO | Friday, January 13 at 7:30pm | Theatre 1 | A woman tormented by strange, drug-induced hallucinations finds her fantasies giving way to violent reality.
StageFright – Jan 19, 2023
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 19 at 7:30pm | Little Theatre 1 | A group of stage actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them.
Knife + Heart – Jan 27, 2023
JANUARY GIALLO | Friday, January 27 at 7:30pm | Theatre 1 | In the summer of 1979, Paris porn producer Anne finds her life turned upside-down by a murder investigation in the middle of shooting her most ambitious film yet.
Blood and Black Lace – Jan. 4
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 4 at 7:30pm | A masked man with a metal-claw glove stalks models at a couple’s Roman fashion salon, in this 1968 classic by Mario Bava.
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times – Jan. 12
JANUARY GIALLO | Friday, January 12 at 7:30pm | Two sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by their ancestor, a dark-haired, red-robed woman who is said to take seven lives every hundred years.
The Strangler – Jan. 18
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 18 at 7:30pm | Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man.
Deep Red – Jan. 26
JANUARY GIALLO | Friday, January 26. at 7:30pm | A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the brutal murder of a psychic, in Dario Argento’s classic of the giallo genre.
The Corruption of Chris Miller – Jan. 9
JANUARY GIALLO | Abandoned by their husband/father, a traumatized woman and her disturbed stepdaughter hire a drifter handyman at their secluded estate while a series of murders begins.
Cruising – Jan. 17
JANUARY GIALLO | Friday, January 17, 2025 | A psychopath is scouring New York City gay clubs and viciously slaying homosexuals. Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is ordered to don leather attire, hang at the city’s S&M joints and keep an eye out for the killer. But as Steve becomes immersed in club hopping, he begins to identify with the subculture more than he expected.
Short Night of Glass Dolls – Jan. 23
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 23, 2025 | Greg, an American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared. When his own body turns up in a park, Greg turns frantic
Four Flies on Grey Velvet – Jan. 31
JANUARY GILLO | Friday, January 31, 2025 | Directed by Dario Argento. A musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.
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