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 eroticsm, psychological horror, and slasher violence, classic and contemporary Giallo films continue to surprise and terrify.
January Giallo is co-presented by Cinematic Void and Anomaly – The Rochester Genre Film Festival.
PAST
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.
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.
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.
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