The Black Gloves And Crimson Gloves series was created around the idea that director Dario Argento’s masterpiece, Deep Red, was turning a landmark 50 years old. But at Frida HQ, the secret reason for the celebratory retrospective was to showcase one of our favorite movies of all time, now celebrating its own 40th anniversary–Creepers!

Released in the U.S. as Creepers, this aggressively re-edited cut of the film Phenomena trims Argento’s operatic vision down to a leaner, grindhouse-ready form—but loses none of its mad brilliance. Jennifer Connelly plays a Swiss boarding school student with a psychic link to insects, who finds herself investigating a series of grisly murders alongside a wheelchair-bound entomologist (Donald Pleasence, plus a monkey sidekick). What unfolds is a delirious blend of supernatural horror, murder mystery, and coming-of-age nightmare. Oh, and did we mention the soundtrack? The most underrated Goblin score of all time, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Bill Wyman–just to name a few!

More streamlined but no less surreal, Creepers is a fractured mirror of Phenomena—a curiosity from the VHS era that still crawls under your skin. Kick off your Spooky Season the right way.