Deep Red
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Dario Argento Run Time: 127 min. Release Year: 1975 Language: Italian
Starring: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni
The crown jewel of our Black Gloves & Crimson Blood restrospective celebrating the films of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento is his unforgettable masterpiece Deep Red, now celebrating 50 years since its release with a new restoration from our friends at the American Genre Film Archive!
Widely hailed as Dario Argento’s magnum opus, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rosso) is a baroque symphony of murder, madness, and visual excess. When a jazz pianist witnesses a brutal killing, he’s pulled into a spiral of hallucination, artifice, and buried trauma. What follows is Argento at the absolute height of his powers: roving Steadicam shots, feverish close-ups, Grand Guignol gore, and a legendary Goblin score that pulses like a racing heartbeat.
On its 50th anniversary, Deep Red returns to the screen in all its operatic, blood-soaked glory. Whether you’re seeing it for the first time or the fiftieth, this is the film that defines Argento with its formal audaciousness. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!